Dave Parker died a month before his Hall of Fame induction, but his son read a poem from his dad at Sunday's ceremony in Cooperstown.

A long overdue honor was given posthumously to Pirates legend Dave Parker Sunday. Parker, a former outfielder for the Pirates, took his place in the National Baseball Hall of Fame during the 2025 induction ceremony in Cooperstown,

As for the Pirates, the Bucs served as bookends for that phenomenal decade of ‘70s baseball by defeating the excellent Baltimore Orioles in both the 1971 and 1979 World Series. Arguably, the best of the Pirates’ teams of the decade were in the mid-1970s, but they couldn’t get past the Big Red Machine.