Dave Parker, a hard-hitting outfielder who was set to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame next month, has died. He was 74.

Dave Parker, a hard-hitting outfielder who was set to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame next month, has died.

Nicknamed “The Cobra,” Dave Parker was the NL MVP in 1978, won a World Series with the Pittsburgh Pirates a year later and won another championship in 1989 with the Oakland Athletics.

Parker homered for the A’s in the 1989 World Series opener and took credit for helping the Bash Brothers of Jose Canseco and Mark McGwire take the title with a four-game sweep of San Francisco.

Dave Parker, nicknamed “the Cobra,” played for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, the California Angels and Toronto.

Dave Parker, a hard-hitting outfielder who was set to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame next month, has died. He was 74.

Dave Parker, a hard-hitting outfielder who was set to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame next month, has died. He was 74.

PITTSBURGH — 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 ...

Dave Parker, hard-hitting Hall of Fame outfielder nicknamed ‘the Cobra,' dies at 74 Parker won NL batting titles in 1977 and '78 and finished his career as a .290 hitter with 339 homers and ...

PITTSBURGH — 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 ...

The nickname pays homage to Mark McGwire and Jose Canseco, who were nicknamed the "Bash Brothers" when teammates on the Oakland Athletics from the late 1980s to the early 1990s. Wehiwa Aloy and Kuhio ...