Chuck Tanner, the manager of the Pirates “We Are Family” championship team of 1979, has been named a senior advisor to new Pirates’ GM Neal Huntington.

The term “senior advisor” is an apt one since Tanner is 79 years old. He had been working for the Indians as a scout, and before that had been a special assistant to the GM in Milwaukee.

Tanner first broke into baseball in 1946 as an outfielder in the Milwaukee Braves’ farm system and managed in the major leagues for 19 years, serving four different clubs – the White Sox, A’s, Pirates, and Braves..