The Harrisburg Alumni Association

Relief pitcher Brett Gideon becomes the first Harrisburg Senators player in the team’s modern era to receive a promotion directly from Class AA to the major leagues as he joins the Pittsburgh Pirates 39 years ago today.

Gideon is 4-3 in 26 games for the Senators with 12 saves and a 1.98 earned-run average when he jumps from City Island to the majors.

He pitches in 29 games for the Pirates, finishing the 1987 season with a 1-5 record, three saves and a 4.66 ERA.

Gideon returns to Harrisburg in 1988 and then spends parts of the 1989 and ’90 seasons with Montreal before his career ends in the minors in 1992 back in the Class AA Eastern League with Canton.

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