Weaver would make only one more playoff appearance in his career, winning 102 games in 1979, and losing to the Pirates in the World Series.
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The card was released as Wagner was on his way to winning his seventh batting title and about to lead the Pirates to their first World Series win.
DVDs top sellers included Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Planet Earth: The Complete BBC Series and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End.
Rounding out the top five at the box office: Shrek the Third, Transformers, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.
The game maker has World of Cars, Pirates of the Caribbean Online and Pixie Hollow for kids to explore beyond the movies and interact with characters from the big screen adventures in unique ways.
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There is a certain irony in the fact that the creator of Monkey Island had the idea while on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disney World.
Weaver won the World Series in his second season, and returned to the World Series again in 1971, losing to the Pirates.
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Blankmeyer, who replaced Russo in 1996, helped lead Seton Hall to the College World Series in 1974 and '75 as the Pirates' starting second baseman.
In the 17th century the cays' hidden inlets, coves and limestone caverns were the favorite haunts of such pirates and privateers as Blackbeard, who plundered Spanish galleons leaving the New World.
The decision offers a lengthy diversion into 18th century law and politics, when pirates were a major foreign-policy concern and large parts of the world had no formal government at all.
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In an era when consumers and corporations are storing and accessing ever larger amounts of data, the IT world faces increasingly sophisticated attacks from hackers, fraudsters, phishers, identity pirates and data-bushwhackers of every stripe.
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But when the world's navies descended on the region in an attempt to protect shipping, the pirates found their grip on the area challenged.
More than 130 pirates attacks, including close to 50 successful hijackings, were reported in 2008, threatening one of the world's busiest shipping lanes.
To put it in its proper perspective, the tenth top-rated individual World Series game on television occurred in 1971 when the Game Seven between the Orioles and the Pirates had a viewing audience of 37.4 million.
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