History of baseball team nicknames by calling them "Pirates" for "stealing" their players. The "Pirates" tag stuck and the alliterative name was eventually adopted as Pittsburgh's official team nickname. By the time of the 1903 World Series, the team was commonly known as "Pirates", although the club did not acknowledge it on their uniforms until 1912. Alternate nicknames such as "Bucs" or "Buccos", short for "buccaneer", have been used through the years. "Buccaneer" is typically used synonymously with "pirate", although historically "buccaneer" is a more specific term for pirates who operated in the Caribbean, especially along the Spanish Main coast. The Pittsburgh Steelers of the
City of Pirates "City of Pirates" fell short of his previous film "Three Crowns of the Sailor" (1983) which garnered him reputable respect in the international film community. Much of the praise for and criticism of "City of Pirates" was given retrospectively, not upon its initial release. For instance, Paul Hammond wrote of the film that "If Ruiz's film palls in its compulsive retreading of trod ground, in its insistent miracle-working, it is because such desiring fictions are by definition interminable, and autonomous," giving the film itself a quality of agency. "City of Pirates" was screened to an international audience at the New