Blass pitched 2 complete game victories in the 1971 World Series against that Baltimore pitching staff.
With Nutting and Peter Angelos as their respective owners, the Pirates or Orioles in the World Series, let alone playing each other, is certainly a feat that will never happen again. Probably the two worst owners in MLB.The fact that the Pirates beat the Orioles - a team with four 20-game winners - is a feat that will probably never happen again.
Addendum: prior to that World Series, Orioles manager Earl Weaver was quoted as saying that the Pirates would never win a World Series with Jackie Hernandez as their starting shortstop. Take that, Earl!
And as long as the Pirates are owned by Nutting, we may never see them play in a World Series again.
Clemente ..I was pretty young then did Blass win the mvp or did clemente