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The Chicago Pirates were a baseball team in the Players’ League for a single season in 1890. The team played their home games at South Side Park (II). Their powerful National League rivals were the Chicago White Stockings which later became the Cubs.The Pirates recruited most of the White Stocking’s players and for this reason the Pirate’s attendance was nearly fifty percent higher than the White Stockings. The Pirate’s owner John Addison was a wealthy contractor.