{"id":166582,"date":"2025-07-10T20:46:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T20:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/166582\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T20:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T20:46:11","slug":"pittsburgh-pirates-will-replace-bucco-bricks-at-pnc-park-with-bronze-plaques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/166582\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Pirates will replace \u2018Bucco Bricks\u2019 at PNC Park with bronze plaques"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-franchises \">The Pirates will replace approximately 10,000 \u201cBucco Bricks\u201d outside of PNC Park with a \u201cfar more permanent fixture &#8211;\u202fbronze plaques mounted to the stadium\u2019s exterior walls, bearing the same names and wording as the bricks.\u201d The club is \u201cfooting the bill for the project,\u201d and there is \u201cno public investment whatsoever.\u201d Pirates President Travis Williams said that the plaques would be \u201cmuch more expensive\u201d than the original bricks, but he did not share the project\u2019s cost. The club \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/04\/09\/pirates-explain-why-the-bucco-bricks-outside-pnc-park-are-missing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/04\/09\/pirates-explain-why-the-bucco-bricks-outside-pnc-park-are-missing\/\">removed the bricks<\/a> during a sidewalk replacement project earlier this year,\u202fsparking fan outrage.\u201d It was one of \u201cseveral PR nightmares\u201d the Pirates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/04\/10\/fan-discontent-nightmare-pr-situations-dominate-pirates-early-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/04\/10\/fan-discontent-nightmare-pr-situations-dominate-pirates-early-season\/\">faced at the start of the season<\/a>. The new installation was designed with MLB architect and urban planner Janet Marie Smith to \u201cresemble the layout of the original bricks.\u201d The plaques, 60 in all, will be \u201capproximately five feet high by six feet wide, and each will include around 170 messages, organized by year.\u201d The club will also \u201claunch an app to help fans locate their bricks.\u201d The Pirates plan to install the plaques \u201cbetween next January and March and expect to have them ready by Opening Day of the 2026 season\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/sports\/pirates\/2025\/07\/10\/pirates-bucco-bricks-destroyed-plaques-replaced\/stories\/202507100078\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/sports\/pirates\/2025\/07\/10\/pirates-bucco-bricks-destroyed-plaques-replaced\/stories\/202507100078\">PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE, 7\/10<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pirates will replace approximately 10,000 \u201cBucco Bricks\u201d outside of PNC Park with a \u201cfar more permanent fixture&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2402],"tags":[5,9601,4,10,776,64,4297],"class_list":{"0":"post-166582","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh-pirates","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-fan-experience","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-pirates","12":"tag-pittsburgh","13":"tag-pittsburgh-pirates","14":"tag-pittsburghpirates"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114830900675767734","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}