Topic: Bill Mazeroski
In the history of professional baseball there has perhaps never been a better defensive second baseman than Bill Mazeroski of the Pittsburgh Pirates . Born in Wheeling, West Virginia on September 5, 1936, Bill Mazeroski was signed by the Pittsburgh Pirates as ...
Baseball player Bill Mazeroski spent his entire 17-season career playing for the Pittsburgh Pirates . Right Although he was originally signed as a shortstop, the Pirates fatefully switched the young Mazeroski to second base prior to his first game. Despite his above ...
50 years later, Maz & Pirates reunite at old Forbes Field site to relive victory of a lifetimeFor one shining day, Bill Mazeroski and the Pittsburgh Pirates were going like '60 again.The ballpark was missing. So were the New York Yankees, not ...
Impossible? Not to 1960 Pirates, who say Hal Smith's HR was as memorable as Mazeroski'sLeft fielder Yogi Berra never had a chance as the homer cleared Forbes Field's ivy-covered wall with a dozen feet to spare, releasing a pent-up jolt of excitement ...
Even though some say that it was the best game ever played, if many of us had found old footage of game 7 of the 1960 baseball World Series, won 10-9 by the Pittsburgh Pirates over the New York Yankees, we might ...
Former Pirates GM Joe L. Brown, architect of '60 and '71 World Series winners, dies at 91Joe L. Brown, the general manager whose shrewd trading and expert rebuilding of the Pittsburgh Pirates' farm system resulted in two World Series championships, died after ...
Chuck Estrada of Baltimore, which finished 8 games behind New York, and Jim Perry of fourth-place Cleveland tied for tops in the American League with 18 wins. Over the first six games of the 1960 World Series, the Yankees outscored the Pirates ...
New York Yankee Ralph Terry has just thrown the last pitch of the 1960 World Series. Far above them, on the roof of the Cathedral of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh, is George Silk. The photograph, published in Life and a ...
Though most of today's fans know of it only from the archives or older relatives, Bobby Thomson's game-and-pennant winner in 1951 has a special place in baseball lore. The teams split the first two games and, with 20-game winner Don Newcombe on ...
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The Greatest Homerun Ever: Bill Mazeroski ...
Ranked by ESPN as the greatest home run of all ...2010-10-09 -
The Greatest Homerun Ever: Bill Mazeroski ...
Ranked by ESPN as the greatest home run of all ...2009-11-07 -
Bill Mazeroski statue dedication
Recorded on September 5, 2010 using a Flip Video camcorder.2010-09-05
