Dave Parker had swagger the very first time he stepped on the baseball field for the Pittsburgh Pirates. As a rookie in 1973, he made the Pirates the season after the team lost all-time great Roberto ...

Dave Parker, a two-time World Series champion and 1978 MVP who was set to get inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame next month, died Saturday following a lengthy battle with Parkinson’s disease, ...

Like a lot of young Pittsburgh Pirates fans who were introduced to baseball in the 1970s, I had a Dave Parker poster on my wall. A shot of him with his massive chest opened toward the camera after a ...

CINCINNATI — Cincinnati native and former Cincinnati Reds outfielder Dave Parker was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday. His induction comes roughly one month after Parker died ...

For years Dave Parker's biggest fans used the hashtag #Enshrine39 in pursuit of a singular goal: ensuring the five-tool superstar known as Cobra would someday get his call from the Hall. While that ...

Dave Parker, a.k.a “the cobra” of Major League Baseball, died at the age of 74 in June 2025. Leaving a legacy of behind him in the baseball world, Dave played for multiple teams throughout his career, ...

Welcome to Sliders, a weekly in-season MLB column that focuses on both the timely and timeless elements of the game. They had been teammates for one day, nearly four years earlier. One hit a ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Dave Parker, a hard-hitting outfielder who was set to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame next month, has died, the Pittsburgh Pirates announced Saturday. He was 74. No ...

Parker's former team, the Pittsburgh Pirates, announced the news of his death before their game against the Mets on Saturday, June 28, and held a moment of silence Justin K. Aller/Getty Baseball ...

Our news partner, WCPO in Cincinnati, reported that his death was reported inside Great American Ball Park during the broadcast of Saturday’s game between the Reds and the San Diego Padres. “The Reds ...