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Pittsburgh Pirates to Play in MLB Little League Classic in Williamsport

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Major League Baseball announced on Thursday morning that the Pittsburgh Pirates and the St Louis Cardinals will play in the MLB Little League Classic, which will take place in Williamsport, Pa. on August 20th. The game was originally scheduled for PNC Park, but will now take place 200 miles east in Williamsport during the Little League World Series. The game will air nationally on ESPN Sunday Night Baseball.

The game will take place at BB&T Ballpark at Historic Bowman Field, the home of the Williamsport Crosscutters of the New York-Penn League. Williamsport was the home of the NYPL affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1999 until 2006.

John Dreker
John Dreker
John started working at Pirates Prospects in 2009, but his connection to the Pittsburgh Pirates started exactly 100 years earlier when Dots Miller debuted for the 1909 World Series champions. John was born in Kearny, NJ, two blocks from the house where Dots Miller grew up. From that hometown hero connection came a love of Pirates history, as well as the sport of baseball. When he didn't make it as a lefty pitcher with an 80+ MPH fastball and a slider that needed work, John turned to covering the game, eventually focusing in on the prospects side, where his interest was pushed by the big league team being below .500 for so long. John has covered the minors in some form since the 2002 season, and leads the draft and international coverage on Pirates Prospects. He writes daily on Pittsburgh Baseball History, when he's not covering the entire system daily throughout the entire year on Pirates Prospects.

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