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Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate’s life for meWe pillage, we plunder, we rifle, and lootDrink up, me ’earties, yo hoWe kidnap and ravage and don’t give a hootDrink up me ’earties, yo ho“Yo Ho (A Pirate’s Life for Me)”Music by George Bruns, lyrics by Xavier Atencio The current Bucs player who has the swagger of an actual pirate is center fielder Andrew McCutchen. As the 11th pick in the 2005 draft McCutchen carried high expectations and has met them, providing a consistent bat in what is usually a tepid lineup. As of today McCutchen’s batting average is .286; in the past two seasons he has ended the year with that exact figure. He shares his surname with reliever Daniel, and they are the only two players with this name to have played in the majors (although there was a Doc McCutchen McJames, active from 1895 through 1899 and in 1901, who led the National League in strikeouts in 1897 and died at the age of 27 from being thrown from a carriage). Andrew is African-American while Daniel is white, but of course that doesn’t mean they couldn’t be related. Slave owners were known to have children with their slaves...
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Photo courtesy of the Boston Public Library’s Sports Temples of Boston.