They wore those cake box hats for waaaaay too long, IMHO.
Those Pittsburgh uniforms were really something.
Living on the north side of Chicago and going to hundreds and hundreds of games in the late’60s and early ‘70s, I saw all the players of the NL a lot. The Pirates were noteworthy for, among other things, having some hard-throwing black pitchers: Bob Veale, Alvin McBean, and Dock Ellis come immediately to mind.
As I recall, 1975 was his last year — the year before the fat pin stripes (ugly!), and then the gold with black and the black with gold. As I recall the fat pin stripes were eventually replaced by white.
They wore those cake box hats for waaaaay too long, IMHO.