I was 13 years old. The school suspended classes while we listened to the game on a radio. When Maz hit the dinger the teachers were hugging and dacing in the hallway. It was the first time I saw teachers as real people.
Agreed. Not on the level of the 1980 US Olympic (Miracle on Ice)Hockey Team, the 1968-'69 NY Jets or even the 2007-08 NY Giants Super Bowl Wins. However no doubt very underrated and belong easily at least in any top 25-30 sports upsets of all time.
It takes Reggie Jackson 3 home runs on three pitches, in a single World Series game, to be in this conversation....and this is still greater IMO....but Mr. October is no slouch either.
I was pulled out of school (3rd grade) along with my older brother that Wednesday by our mom - my dad had purchased scalper's tickets to Game 7, and we attended. I still have my ticket ($11 face value) and had it signed by both Bill Mazeroski and Harvey Haddix (winning pitcher of the game) years later. Mazeroski also signed my 1960 World Series program. In 1959 Vernon Law and Smokey Burgess rented homes on our street in Eastmont (Gilmore Drive), and we played with Veldon Law; in 1960 Vernon Law rented a place on the next street.
Forbes Field was a huge park to make home runs very hard to hit. The outfield brick wall still stands at the University of Pitt. A group gets together on 10-13 every year and re-enacts this home run.
I was at game six where they got crushed 11-1 or something like that. Forbes Field was 456 to dead center. I once saw Dick Stuart hit a hanging curve over the flag pole in center field. Quite a shot. I remember when the ball was halfway to the plate my father said, "Goodbye!"
October 13 was a significant date for the Pirates three times in WS history. On a somewhat diasppointing note, that was the day in 1903 that the Boston Pilgrims (later the Red Sox) beat them 5 games to 3 in the 1st ever World Series. The Bucs won the World Series on that date in 1960. In 1971, the 1st World Series game ever played at night involved the Baltimore Orioles vs.the Pirates at Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Stadium.
On this day, all these 61 years gone by, the memory remains vivid … Bill Mazeroski’s home run has not faded. Thrill of a lifetime when I was a kid. Thank you, Maz.
On this Oct. day in 1960, I insisted on watching this game. Two days later my adult life began … I left for military service. Game 7 remains one of the pinnacles in my life. I’m 82.
I still feel this is THE greatest upset in sports history. The Bucs were crushed in the 3 games they lost and barely won their 4 games. No wonder why Mickey Mantle cried.
I don't think it's on the level of the 1980 "Miracle on Ice" US Hockey Team winning the Gold Medal that shocked the world. If you even wanted to list this legendary series outcome in the top 25-30 biggest sports upsets ever, I have no problem with that. Also if you want to rank this in MLB history among the biggest upsets ever in the World Series ever go ahead. However at least in modern MLB history since 1945 IMO, I would maybe only put the 1969 Mets, 1988 Dodgers 1990 Reds, 2003 Marlins and the 2006 Cardinals right up with this 1960 Pirates team as the biggest Fall Classic upsets ever. And beating the Yankees in the middle of their Post "WW2 dynasty" especially at the start of the Mantle/Maris early '60's juggernaut club, was no small feat. Great moment in MLB history as I am speaking as a Yankee Fan lol not yet born in 1960.
Now the Yankees know how the Brooklyn Dodgers felt ni- ne years earlier when Bobby Thomson hit the Shot Heard 'Round The World in the fina l game pf the Best Of Three matchup @ the Polo Ground s to send the New York Gian ts to the 1951 World Series against the hated Yankees.
That was no cheap home run either. Bobby Thomson's "Shot Heard 'Round The World" went about 310 feet into the stands at the Polo Grounds. THIS was a bomb over the 406 marker in left-center.
I was born in Pittsburgh in 2006. My grandfather does fantasy camp for the Pittsburgh pirates (where you get to play with all of the old players) and my grandfather has taken me on the pirates field and we had a lot of fun. And I’ve had the joy to go out to lunch with THE Bill Mazeroski. And me and him talked for an hour and a half about that World Series win. That was the best day of my life so far.
You were born in 2006? LUCKY! haha.... You don't even know what a world without internet or cell phones was like! Only 3 channels on TV as well! Can you imagine?!? Good for you, that you met Mazeroski! That's an awesome story.
I was 9 years old, and heard Hal Smith's home run on a transistor on the way home from school in the bottom of the 8th, thinking "they won". Then rushed home to find out that the Yankees tied it in the top of the ninth. I was there watching on TV when Maz hit that magical home run....a memory I'll never forget.
Mazeroski tattooed that ball and he was still hauling ass out of the box. You could never be sure at Forbes Field considering it was a mighty 406 to the alley in left-center. To this day, this is still the greatest home run in the history of the sport.
@@timthunell2685 Joe Carter di- d the same thing for Toront o 33 years later in the '93 Fa ll Classic, but this was in six games, the only time(s) in b aseball history that a World Series was closed by a hom e run.
I saw the game live with my Italian grandfather who came here in 1903, found out about baseball and loved it. He taught me the game. Historically it was devastating. Up until that point the Yankees NEVER lost like that. Mantle, Ford and others were correct, Casey screwed up and didn't pitch Ford three times in that Series. As a seven year old I liked it that it went seven games - more games to watch! I'm a Mantle, Berra and Ford fan, so were they the better team? It doesn't matter. The Pirates won. Should Mazeroski, based on his stats, be in the Hall of Fame? Maybe based on this event, sure. What I always remember was Yogi in left field, running to the wall, and after in clears it, running casually back to the dugout. As I saw it many times as an adult, the body language seemed like, "Okay... let's get 'em next year." Why? Because they were in the WS almost every year from 1949 until 1964. Later on in my life Yogi's body language was like, "Okay, I'll take the loser share. The best thing is, nobody died." Maybe that's an Italian American thing. I still want to visit Pittsburgh and see a piece of that wall. God Bless Maz and all those players on those teams. Man... That was baseball!
Of course, the Pirates were ahead 3 games to 2 after 5 games and were In position to close out the series in 6 games. Also, the Yankees were not that invinsible during that time period,having lost the World Series' of 1955 abd 1957.
Not only that, but Yankees 2B Bobby Richardson had the Series of his life, and won the Series MVP Award. I'm not entirely sure, but I think he is still the only one to do so.
@@roderickmcnealy3253 Skinner played in game 1 and was injured. Cimoli, played in games 2-6 but Skinner played in game 7. Cimoli played in 101 games that year; Murtaugh platooned alot: Stuart/Nelson at 1st, Cimoli in the OF and Smith/Burgess catching.
For whatever it is worth, we were gathered by the radio in the hall of Saint Joseph School in Conway Springs, Kansas listening to this. Some were for the Yankees. some were for the Pirates. We all got to hear the walk off home run, and inside of an hour we were on the school bus headed home. Those were the days.
Magical still! This was 15 years before I was born and it still brings tears to my eyes!! I’ve met Mr. Mazeroski several times over the years and he is a fantastic guy. Thanks Bill. Here’s to the Buccos regaining their glory someday!!
@@christianlorre not a collector of sports memorabilia, but I have a ball signed by Maz, and a card signed by Haddix. Winning hitter and the winning pitcher. Haddix threw what many consider the greatest feat ever by a pitcher,12 perfect innings. Lost in the 13 the on an error. A great story. Worth reading.
Imagine how many home runs Willie Stargell would have hit had he not played about a decade in Forbes Field. He would have had closer to 600 rather than 475.
Not only Stargell, but Roberto Clemente. He has said in interviews that he consciously tried to hit for average and not power because of how cavernous Forbes Field was (well, HE didn't say cavernous), and Clemente had really good power, too. He said something along the lines of "I could hit 30 home runs if I wanted, but I would only bat .265, and it wouldn't help the team." Think about it. Forbes Field was so big that the ground crew was able to store the batting cage on the field in dead center field, and it very rarely came into play.
My family moved from the Pittsburgh area when I was 2, so my Dad was a Pirates fan. Mom would tell the story about when Bill Mazeroski hit this home run to win game 7 against the Yankees my Dad, who passed away in 1965, ran into the street in his underwear shouting, "The Pirated won! The Pirates won." I'm a Mets fan, but I have a hard time cheering against the Bucs when they are not playing the Mets.
I was only 4 years old when Maz hit this historic homer. Born just a few minutes from downtown Pittsburgh. I don't remember this event as a 4 year old, but I do remember being 5 or 6 years old and wearing a Pirate uniform. I never took that thing off. Maz was one of my favorite players. He always had a big wade of chewing tobacco in the side of his mouth. My grandfather told me that Maz was a clutch hitter. He got hits when the Pirates needed a hit. When I wore my Pirate uniform, I would take a slice of bread, or some black licorice and jam it into the side of my mouth just like Maz, and go in the back yard and throw the rubber ball against the block wall. I would do this all day long, pretending I was Maz. I collected just the Pirate baseball cards and discarded the rest. Pirate cards were the only ones that had value to me. I remember listening to the Pirate games on the radio and when they were on TV, I would never miss a game. Bob Prince, made the games come to life and my hero's were Maz, Clemente and Willie Stargell. Those were the days when the players and team announcer connected to the local fans. Today, it is not the same. Sadly, I don't follow my Pirates. The players, the culture, the city and everything about the game is different. I miss baseball from the 60's and early 70's. The big contracts and free agency changed the game. The fan has been left in the dust. Players today have no loyalty or respect for the fans or their team. It is all about the individual. The days of Maz, Roberto and Willie Stargell are long gone.
I'm a Yankee fan and to this day I hate black and yellow because of that HR. But I have to admit, from a baseball point of view, it was one of the great moments in its history. Feel the same way about Carlton Fisk's. I'm a baseball fan first and a Yankee fan second.
My mom was a shirt tail relative of Bill Mazeroski. Second cousin or something like that. (Bernice Fithen). I grew up with the stories of the 1960 world series and how proud she was. I've been a Pirates and Steelers fan my whole life. My son and I went to the Pirates -vs Yankees game for the first time in Pittsburgh this year (2023). We entered the field from Mazeroski Way to get to our seats. We wanted to get the best possible seats for the game we could. Our seats behind home plate on the 3rd base side looking straight down the 1st base line. We had no idea our seats were under the #9 Bill Mazeroski Ring of Honor sign. ...AWESOME!!! GO PIRATES!!!!! Monday night was Steelers vs Browns........... Steelers Win!!! Sharing everything with my son was a once in a lifetime treat. 😃Thanks Pittsburgh
Enter 9th grader Andy Jerpe, a 14-year-old, who had made his way to Forbes Field just a few blocks away from his home for the deciding game. When the Yankees scored twice in the top of the 9th to tie the score at 9-9, Jerpe got up to leave. He wanted to beat the rush out of the park, and he had to get home to help his mother prepare dinner. If it was me, I wouldn’t have been that nice. Dinner would have to wait. Anyway, making his way outside the stadium, he was just a few feet beyond the left-field wall, when he heard a crack of a ball meeting a bat, and saw a ball dropping out of the sky only 15 feet from him, landing in a cluster of cherry trees, across the street from Schenley Park. At the same time, he heard a deafening roar from the crowd. He strolled over and grabbed the ball, while the cheering grew louder and louder. A police officer appeared and escorted Jerpe to the Pirate clubhouse. Inside, in the midst of all the celebrating and spraying of champagne, Jerpe asked catcher Hal Smith (who had hit a 3-run homer in the 8th to put the Pirates in a 9-7 lead) sign the ball, along with Mazeroski. Jerpe then decided to offer the ball to Mazeroski, but he said, with a huge grin, “You keep it. The memory is good enough for me.” So right. Mazeroski will never be forgotten in Pittsburgh. Today, he is honored in the city with a sidewalk plaque in Schenley Park, near where Forbes Field once stood. He’s also in the Hall of Fame, getting there in 2001, mostly for his defense, although the 7th game 1960 World Series homer didn’t hurt. At home, Jerpe eventually put the ball in a Plexiglas display for safe keeping. That is, until the following spring, 1961, when his buddies convinced him to take the ball out to play with. They went to a playground across the street where Jerpe hit flies to his friends. After several lofters, he shanked a foul into some knee-high weeds off to the right. The kids looked for the ball for a whole hour, but no sign of it. Jerpe even went back the next day and looked again. No ball. What a shame. The Bill Mazeroski ball was lost forever. In a 2010 newspaper interview written by Bob Cohn of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Jerpe still feels bad for taking the ball to the playground that spring, 1961. But what the heck, he was just a kid. What would the Mazeroski ball be worth today? A million dollars?
Two interesting bits of trivia from this game. 1) The time of the game was 2 hours and 36 minutes. In today's world, this game would take about 4 hours. 2) Neither team had a strikeout. That is truly amazing!
the fact that neither team had a strikeout may have made it possible to have such a quick runtime if everyone was putting the ball in play early in the count. Still remarkable that can happen with a 10-9 game.
@@DavidSilva-fq7nt Right. Pitchers no longer go the distance & are yanked after reaching a certain pitch count, schedul ed double headers are a thin g of the past, games are lon- ger, the World Series is play- ed in November long after th e NFL season starts & the N BA season gets underway. I could go on & on, but you ge t my drift. Baseball has gott- en worse instead of better.
The excited announcer at first declared the final score "10 to nothing!" Can you blame him? It seemed like a 10-run win! What a great and unforgettable moment!
In fairness to the late, great Chuck Thompson: Ditmar was warming up in the bullpen at the time, Chuck was starting to mention that when Maz stopped him in mid-sentence.....
Yeah no doubt he was excited can't blame him. but the most excited reaction from an announcer was the guy who called the Bobby Thompson's home run that killed the Dodgers in 1951.
I HAD A CHANCE IN 1960 OR '61 (GINO CIMOLI WAS STILL THERE) TO VISIT PIRATE DUGOUT BEFORE SATURDAY GAME TO MEET BOB SKINNER, SMOKEY BURGESS, GINO CIMOLI AND BILL MAZEROSKI. AFTER THE GAME, THRY LET ME STANDBON HOME PLATE. FORBES WAS HUGE. GREAT DAY. I MISS IT ALL.
As a seven year old had a chance to see the Pirates play the Dodgers at Forbes field in 1963. I was listening to my dad tell me about Maz's homerun and showing me where it was hit. Thankyou for this video it brought back a great experience I had with my late father . I love baseball!! srl
A number of years ago Sports Illustrated did a special edition of the Greatest Shots in the history of US Sports. Basketball/Baseball/Football/Hockey/Golf/Soccer et cetera ... The Mazeroski HR was ranked #1 on that list. Forbes Field is gone, but that section of the Left Field wall where the ball went over is still there.
I had enough influence in 8th grade to convince my social studies teacher (who was also a Red Sox diehard like me) turn on the Sox home opener that year. There's something about mid-week day baseball that I absolutely love. ^_^
@@AvsfanGoAvsGo I wonder how many people had radios in the classroom when Don Larsen threw his perfect game in the '56 Worl d Series? That'll never happ- en. Today's teachers would never allow a student to brin g a radio into the classroom, much less a t.v. By playing t he World Series @ night allo ws kids to watch the game on t.v. with their parents.
a h/s junior in Libertyville Ill (but born in Pittsburgh to a multigenerational family), I skipped school and went to a friend's house to watch on 9" b/w tv - sublime! In '71 and '79, I was front and center in seats at 3 Rivers' for the games! Beat-em Bucs! '
My late great grandfather was at this game a few days after my grandfather was born, it’s one of my favorite stories to hear from my pop, RIP to two great men.
This was the first World Series I ever saw and I'm a Yankees fan. It was a back and forth game that rested on a ground ball taking a bad bounce that led to other heroics. I am still reeling from the Maz home run, it was definitely one of the greatest HR moments in baseball. Didn't see it coming.
I remember another time when I was young and simply loved baseball and the Yankees. I had just turned 13, had received a tiny transistor radio for my birthday, and was listening to Game 7 of the 1960 World Series, Yankees vs Pirates. I can picture, as if it happened yesterday, where I was standing and how devastated I felt when the game ended. The Yankees had scored 2 in the top of the 9th to tie the game. And in the bottom of the inning, with Terry pitching and Blanchard behind the plate (Yogi Berra was in LF), second baseman Bill Mazeroski came to bat . . . 5 walks and 0 strikeouts in the entire game; men in suits and fans allowed to run onto the field; the game time was 2 hours and 36 minutes. Important to the Pirates? You might say: there is a large statue in Pittsburg commemorating the hit, on a street named Mazeroski Way.
always a good day when the skanks lose, and skankie douche nation is in mourning wondering how exactly they could've lost, how can the skanks lose? I've only had the pleasure of seeing them lose 1 (2001) during my lifetime but i guess one is better than none, lets go mets....
@@caliente6319 They lost aga in in 2003 & were beaten by the Red Sox a year later in th e 2004 ALCS when Boston e rased a 3-0 deficit before be ating (St. Louis?) to win thei r first World Series since the end of WW1 (1918).
The funny part is that Terry almost got victimized by a walk-off again two years later in game 7 against the Giants. I think it was McCovey who hit a line drive that would have plated the tying and winning runs, except for a nice defensive play by Bobby Richardson to snag the ball, ending the game and the series. It's a shame that so many people only know Ralph Terry from this....he was actually a pretty good pitcher.
Johnny Blanchard walked out to the mound and warned Terry not to throw anything high, which was Maz's wheelhouse. Terry proceeded to do that very thing on the next pitch. Mazeroski is in the Hall of Fame, primarily because of his fielding.
@@gutsdw Mazeroski homered off of New York Yankees pitcher Ralph Terry to end the Series, giving the Pirates a 10-9 win and their first championship since 1925. It was the first of two times the World Series has ended on a walk-off home run, and the only time it has happened in Game 7. Joe Carter's world series winning home run against the Phillies was in Game 6 but nevertheless just as dramactic and thrilling unless you were a Phillies fan. And one could argue Bobby Thompson's home run against the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1951 was one of the greatest game winning home runs unless you were a Brooklyn Dodger fan.
@@gutsdw Score was tied 9-9. Pirates do not score in bottom of the 9th it goes into extra innings. I have had the luck to see both Carter's and Mazeroski's home runs on the TV broadcasts.
Maz not only did damage with his bat but with his glove. In his 17 seasons as second baseman with the Pirates he turned 1706 double plays, an all-time MLB record.
Pete Rose has often spoken of how it was impossible to take Maz out at second base to break up a double play. He said as a rookie he was bitching in the dugout about how somebody needed to take him out on a double play. He said Frank Robinson told him, "If you think it's so easy, kid, you do it." The next day, Rose said he got an opportunity, and slid into Maz with everything he had. Maz never moved, and Rose said he just bounced off his legs. When he got back to the dugout, Robinson asked him, "So what do you think now, kid?"
I was boy of 15 and was in Pittsburgh that day. My dad was a traveling preacher and we had been there for about a month. We were leaving town that very night to return home to Illinois. The local police asked Dad to wait until later in the night because the town was going crazy. He said that there were so many drunken wrecks that the hospital had people in beds in the hallways. I was homeschooling, but re-entered the public school system when I returned home. Post Script. I wasn't at the game but listen to it on the radio. KDKA Bob Prince
And one of the biggest ironies was that Prince didn't get to call the HR on the radio. He was making his way down to the locker room to do post-game interviews at the time, and had no idea how the game ended. The same thing would happen 12 years later. Legendary Steelers broadcaster Myron Cope would be on his way down to the Steelers locker room to do interviews after what he assumed would be a disappointing loss in their first playoff game ever, and he missed Franco Harris' "Immaculate Reception." I miss Bob Prince, and that whole generation of announcers...Harry Caray, Ernie Harwell, Milo Hamilton, Lindsey Nelson, Jack Buck, Marty Brenneman, Harry Kalas......today's guys are good, but they're so vanilla. We are very fortunate to have Greg Brown, who is definitely not vanilla, here in Pittsburgh.
Prince was, in fact, on his way down to the locker room when Maz hit the homer. All he knew when he got there was that the Pirates had won. They shoved Maz in front of the camera, and Prince's question to him was, "how does it feel to be a member of the World Champion Pittsburgh Pirates." He didn't know that Maz had hit the winning homer. Gunner told the story a million times, and the tape is out there as well!
I was 9 years and a few days old when this happened.. We tried listening to game in school when some kid had a transistor radio. There was no local broadcast, so we found a very static-ee station out of Pittsburgh, Pa. I lived in NE Pa., kinda between NYC and Pittsburgh. Half the kids were Yankee fans and the other half Pirate fans. I was rooting for the Pirates. I got home from school about 3:35 pm. I turned on the tv and the focas came in just as the ball cleared the fence. The Yankees held all the statics in this world series by far, but still lost the WS. I remember it like it happened yesterday. Everyone forgets the 3 run home-run by Hal Smith in the 8 inning to set the stage for this to happen. What a battle this series was. There is no question that the Yankees were the better team by far, but the best team doesn't always win.
@traybern Not true. The Yankees were a much better team in 1960. The team that wants it more usually wins. Underdog's win because they put out more effort.
@traybern GO smoke another weed idiot. Your assumption is idiotic and stupid. I can see that you never went to school. I did not say they threw the series. You can make up anything you want.
it was the best time ever to be a pirate fan and I was just a kid but will never forget it to the point of even thinking if he can do that I can do anything! and I'm sure many other people felt the same :-)
Several years ago I visited the University of Pittsburgh and the site where Forbes Field used to be....the centerfield and rightfield wall ARE STILL THERE...there’s also a plaque commemorating Mazeroski’s series winner....very cool
Will Drucker Home plate is still there, also. It's in the floor of a building that is part of the University of Pittsburgh. It's not exactly where the actual plate was, but pretty close.
And what's really cool is that every October 13 (excluding the covid years) the Pirates faithful still gather at that part of the wall that's standing and listen to a recording of the radio broadcast of the game.
When this happened Oct. 13, 1960. I was 8 yrs. old. My brothers @ I plus my Mom were in my living room all intently watching as Maz homered in Schenly Park. We all charged out on our porch, the mailman just delivered our mail. We're yelling, screaming, hollowing, jumping up @ down. Some people across the street looked at us like we were crazy. It's in the afternoon. Caous, pandemonium, just unbelievable.
About 15 years ago, Bing Crosby's(part owner of Pirates in 1960) estate found complete game reels of the entire game. They are available to buy. You can watch and listen to either the TV call or the radio call. The centerfield camera was the one that was found. Until then, the only known view was high above home plate. There's a low angle photo where you can see the ball as it was elevating. Very cool too.
This was a kinoscope of the actual NBC broadcast of the game--of all people, Bing Crosby (at one time a minority owner of the Pirates) had it made while he was in Europe. As NBC didn't make a kinoscope of their own, it was considered lost until Crosby's copy was found. This version tags on Chuck Thompson's legendary radio call, but switches back to Mel Allen's television announcing.
By most accounts Mazeroski was the best fielding second baseman of all time (similar to how most people think Ozzie Smith was the best fielding shortstop ever). Also like Ozzie, Maz was actually a below average hitter for his career, so to many people Bill's selection to the HOF by the Veterans Committee was a bit generous. But Maz did leave an unforgettable mark on baseball history with his bat with this Game 7 home run, about as clutch a hit as you can possibly get! I am proud to sponsor his Baseball Reference page! Maz was a damn good player!
This centerfield camera shot sat in NBC's archives for decades. Forbes Field was a tough tough place to hit a HR. Man, you talk about hangin' a slider right in his "wheelhouse".
Unbelievable. This probably is the most exciting moment in baseball history, certainly the most dramatic home run ever hit because it was a walk-off that ended the World Series. Nobody before or since has hit a home run in the final at-bat to win the Series. This is better than Bobby Thomson's Shot Heard Around The World because Bobby clinched the pennant for the Giants in '51, not the Series (the Giants went on to lose to the Yankees in the Fall Classic). Wish I could have been at Forbes Field that day. Shortly after the Yankees were crushed, Casey Stengel was fired as manager. Maz is one of the Pirates greats. I'm a Detroit fan and love it when the Yankees lose.
Respectfully NO. Maz strikes out, the game isn't over, you to to extra innings. Thomson's HR came with his team down 4-2, 1 out bottom of 9th. Win or go home time. No extra innings to try again.
Art Ditmar sued, and lost, for being mis-identified as the victim of Maz's home run. Chuck Thompson, whose radio broadcast you hear on this clip, was about to mention that Ditmar was throwing in the Yankees' pen, but then Ralph Terry threw his pitch. Thompson also stated the wrong final score immediately after the homer, reporting that the Pirates had won, 10-0, and then gave the right score (10-9) a moment later.
I was in fifth grade with a transistor radio with ear plug. I got home in time to see the happiest moment for me. I ran out on the front porch screaming the Pirates won! All the kids from junior high were at our house by then.
This is the original audio, not the amended version. The announcer made a mistake on the call. Instead of referring to Ralph Terry, he called the pitcher "Ditmar". Referring to pitcher Art Ditmar.
soccer is my sport...i came across this moment in baseball when reading george Westinghouse 's bio and decided to check it out...but back to the game... i love how he celebrated his home run like the way soccer players and fans do when their team makes a goal...bottom line is i love how sports brings people together in celebration, no matter what color, country or language one speaks...the joy is unanimous. ❤
Hal Smith hit a three run home run the inning before to take the lead, it was the most the odds changed from losing to winning in the World Series off one hit
I think Terry's pitches were high that day. Note that on the first pitch, Blanchard's glove is lower and he has to raise it to catch the pitch and then he goes to the mound. And the other batter he faced, Don Hoak in the 8th, flied to left. Don't know if this was typical of Terry but he did give up the most home runs, 40, in the AL in 1962. He also led the AL in wins that season with 23.
Stayed at home, sick that day. As a White Sox fan, I was pulling for the Pirates. Watched it live with no one else a home. Amazing 60 years ago..... Amazing today
We would listen to this game on a new fangled transistor radio at recess in elementary school in San Antonio. For some reason, most of us were Pirate fans. It was a highly exciting series even though we were far away from it. Recognition to Roberto Clemente.
I was 2 years old, but I have read all about this moment since I was old enough to read. This and Bobby Thomson's '51 homer were the most dramatic in baseball history. And both were off pitchers named Ralph. I guess that's part why the name became so rare.
I was in grade school and the administration allowed us to go to the auditorium to listen to the game. I was too young to know a lot about baseball, but I wanted the Pirates to beat the Yankees because they were famous for being such a great ball club. I even prayed, and was thrilled with the victory. Years later, recollecting how hard life is with social problems and wars, I don't have such a love for sports as I once did. God bless.
I was in Third grade at Versailles Ave. school in McKeesport, Pa at the time. I had a transistor radio with me that day that the students and teachers listened to the game on. I could have been home In time to see it live on TV, but stayed at school so everyone could listen to it on my radio. Bad move.
It was, but by 1970, the final year, it had become a bit of a dump. The University of Pittsburgh had bought the property (Forbes Field was on the Pitt campus) and basically did not maintenance on it because they could not wait for the Pirates to move to Three Rivers so they could tear Forbes down.
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My dad was at this game. Never tired of him telling the story. RIP Dad
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Your daddy watched something incredible.
It's right up there with Franco's Immaculate Reception.
Gotta love them Pirates, your memories with your Dad are forever!!!🙏👌⚾❣️
I was at the game. I caught the ball
I was 13 years old. The school suspended classes while we listened to the game on a radio. When Maz hit the dinger the teachers were hugging and dacing in the hallway. It was the first time I saw teachers as real people.
Most underrated moment in sports history. Greatest homerun ever hit, so far.
Agreed. Not on the level of the 1980 US Olympic (Miracle on Ice)Hockey Team, the 1968-'69 NY Jets or even the 2007-08 NY Giants Super Bowl Wins. However no doubt very underrated and belong easily at least in any top 25-30 sports upsets of all time.
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Psssh. Hockey. 🥱
Moronic. Underrated? Fool.
It takes Reggie Jackson 3 home runs on three pitches, in a single World Series game, to be in this conversation....and this is still greater IMO....but Mr. October is no slouch either.
I was pulled out of school (3rd grade) along with my older brother that Wednesday by our mom - my dad had purchased scalper's tickets to Game 7, and we attended. I still have my ticket ($11 face value) and had it signed by both Bill Mazeroski and Harvey Haddix (winning pitcher of the game) years later. Mazeroski also signed my 1960 World Series program. In 1959 Vernon Law and Smokey Burgess rented homes on our street in Eastmont (Gilmore Drive), and we played with Veldon Law; in 1960 Vernon Law rented a place on the next street.
That's what life is supposed to be all about, Cuss! Wtg, my friend! ⚾⚾⚾
Forbes Field was a huge park to make home runs very hard to hit. The outfield brick wall still stands at the University of Pitt. A group gets together on 10-13 every year and re-enacts this home run.
And every one who was there (at the ballpark) had to park their car in Swissvale and get a Forbes Ave trolley to get there...'Nat.
I was at game six where they got crushed 11-1 or something like that. Forbes Field was 456 to dead center. I once saw Dick Stuart hit a hanging curve over the flag pole in center field. Quite a shot. I remember when the ball was halfway to the plate my father said, "Goodbye!"
October 13 was a significant date for the Pirates three times in WS history. On a somewhat diasppointing note, that was the day in 1903 that the Boston Pilgrims (later the Red Sox) beat them 5 games to 3 in the 1st ever World Series. The Bucs won the World Series on that date in 1960. In 1971, the 1st World Series game ever played at night involved the Baltimore Orioles vs.the Pirates at Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Stadium.
Perhaps the outfield brick wall of the former Forbes Field should be a national heritage sight?
In my day it was the practice field for the Pitt football team. We would watch Tony Dorsett run plays.
On this day, all these 61 years gone by, the memory remains vivid … Bill Mazeroski’s home run has not faded. Thrill of a lifetime when I was a kid. Thank you, Maz.
On this Oct. day in 1960, I insisted on watching this game. Two days later my adult life began … I left for military service. Game 7 remains one of the pinnacles in my life. I’m 82.
Most underrated home run because it was hit in Pittsburgh against the beloved NY Yankees.
I still feel this is THE greatest upset in sports history. The Bucs were crushed in the 3 games they lost and barely won their 4 games. No wonder why Mickey Mantle cried.
Yes and both mantle and ford blamed Casey for not starting ford in game 1 so he’d be available to start game 7.
I don't think it's on the level of the 1980 "Miracle on Ice" US Hockey Team winning the Gold Medal that shocked the world. If you even wanted to list this legendary series outcome in the top 25-30 biggest sports upsets ever, I have no problem with that. Also if you want to rank this in MLB history among the biggest upsets ever in the World Series ever go ahead.
However at least in modern MLB history since 1945 IMO, I would maybe only put the 1969 Mets, 1988 Dodgers 1990 Reds, 2003 Marlins and the 2006 Cardinals right up with this 1960 Pirates team as the biggest Fall Classic upsets ever. And beating the Yankees in the middle of their Post "WW2 dynasty" especially at the start of the Mantle/Maris early '60's juggernaut club, was no small feat. Great moment in MLB history as I am speaking as a Yankee Fan lol not yet born in 1960.
Also, the Yankees ended the 1960 season with a 15 game winning streak.
he cried because he could'nt drink champagne after the loss!
Now the Yankees know how the Brooklyn Dodgers felt ni- ne years earlier when Bobby Thomson hit the Shot Heard 'Round The World in the fina l game pf the Best Of Three matchup @ the Polo Ground s to send the New York Gian ts to the 1951 World Series against the hated Yankees.
That was no cheap home run either. Bobby Thomson's "Shot Heard 'Round The World" went about 310 feet into the stands at the Polo Grounds. THIS was a bomb over the 406 marker in left-center.
David Gee Pretty sure there weren't any cheap home runs at Forbes Field. The dimensions were crazy
If you could bend one around the right field foul pole it was only 300 feet, but that broadened out to 375 feet in right center.
The center field wall at Forbes Fields was 462 Feet!
Right field was short but had a 20 foot high screen.
Thomson's was at the 315' marker, over a 16' wall, 2 rows deep.
I was born in Pittsburgh in 2006. My grandfather does fantasy camp for the Pittsburgh pirates (where you get to play with all of the old players) and my grandfather has taken me on the pirates field and we had a lot of fun. And I’ve had the joy to go out to lunch with THE Bill Mazeroski. And me and him talked for an hour and a half about that World Series win. That was the best day of my life so far.
You're truly blessed...
lessgo '06 pittsburgh gang
@@davidschaefer- yup
You were born in 2006? LUCKY! haha.... You don't even know what a world without internet or cell phones was like! Only 3 channels on TV as well! Can you imagine?!?
Good for you, that you met Mazeroski! That's an awesome story.
It’s awesome that you know how great a moment that was and that you appreciate him talking to you about it.
I was 9 years old, and heard Hal Smith's home run on a transistor on the way home from school in the bottom of the 8th, thinking "they won". Then rushed home to find out that the Yankees tied it in the top of the ninth. I was there watching on TV when Maz hit that magical home run....a memory I'll never forget.
I was in Shop class in junior high school and we were all gathered around the teacher's transistor radio when he hit it. What a moment!
I was in my moms belly 😂!
Mazeroski tattooed that ball and he was still hauling ass out of the box. You could never be sure at Forbes Field considering it was a mighty 406 to the alley in left-center. To this day, this is still the greatest home run in the history of the sport.
Absolutely...my mother was at the game....I wasn't around for couple more years. Legendary moment in Pittsburgh!!
@@timthunell2685 Joe Carter di- d the same thing for Toront o 33 years later in the '93 Fa ll Classic, but this was in six games, the only time(s) in b aseball history that a World Series was closed by a hom e run.
@@kevinmiller1985 Carter's home run is not in the same category as this one. This is the greatest home run ever hit!
It's the greatest in history but has never been acknowledged as such. Now if it had been a Yankee HR to win the series in Yankee stadium ...
@@shoelesshunter2599 Well it wasn't; no point speculating.
I saw the game live with my Italian grandfather who came here in 1903, found out about baseball and loved it. He taught me the game. Historically it was devastating. Up until that point the Yankees NEVER lost like that. Mantle, Ford and others were correct, Casey screwed up and didn't pitch Ford three times in that Series. As a seven year old I liked it that it went seven games - more games to watch! I'm a Mantle, Berra and Ford fan, so were they the better team? It doesn't matter. The Pirates won. Should Mazeroski, based on his stats, be in the Hall of Fame? Maybe based on this event, sure. What I always remember was Yogi in left field, running to the wall, and after in clears it, running casually back to the dugout. As I saw it many times as an adult, the body language seemed like, "Okay... let's get 'em next year." Why? Because they were in the WS almost every year from 1949 until 1964. Later on in my life Yogi's body language was like, "Okay, I'll take the loser share. The best thing is, nobody died." Maybe that's an Italian American thing. I still want to visit Pittsburgh and see a piece of that wall. God Bless Maz and all those players on those teams. Man... That was baseball!
You must be older than dirt.
So eloquently illustrated thank u and your grandfather
Guess the mafia will do that too ya
Gimme a break the Yankees won 5 in a row!
Maybe one of the greatest upsets in sports history. Like the man said "They broke all the records, but we won The Game."
Of course, the Pirates were ahead
3 games to 2 after 5 games and were
In position to close out the series
in 6 games. Also, the Yankees were
not that invinsible during that time
period,having lost the World Series'
of 1955 abd 1957.
Gino Cimoli said that, he played for Skinner throughout.
Not only that, but Yankees 2B Bobby Richardson had the Series of his life, and won the Series MVP Award. I'm not entirely sure, but I think he is still the only one to do so.
@@roderickmcnealy3253 Skinner played in game 1 and was injured. Cimoli, played in games 2-6 but Skinner played in game 7. Cimoli played in 101 games that year; Murtaugh platooned alot: Stuart/Nelson at 1st, Cimoli in the OF and Smith/Burgess catching.
I love it. Bottom of the ninth,tie score nine to nine and a homer hit by player # 9.
As John Lennon said, “It’s the highest number in the universe.”
What’s really amazing is Bing Crosby was the only one that had this TV version for 50 years. Nobody saw this home run from this angle until 2010.
@@kenq1363 Dam that's crazy
For whatever it is worth, we were gathered by the radio in the hall of Saint Joseph School in Conway Springs, Kansas listening to this. Some were for the Yankees. some were for the Pirates. We all got to hear the walk off home run, and inside of an hour we were on the school bus headed home. Those were the days.
Magical still! This was 15 years before I was born and it still brings tears to my eyes!! I’ve met Mr. Mazeroski several times over the years and he is a fantastic guy. Thanks Bill. Here’s to the Buccos regaining their glory someday!!
I'm 43 and still learn things on the Internet every day.I liked the Pirates growing up but had no idea this had happened.Great stuff.
Really? It's their most famous moment. Maybe the most famous world series.moment ever.
christianlorre yeah that’s what I was thinking
You were a pirates fan, and you had no idea this happened??? SERIOUSLY???
@@christianlorre not a collector of sports memorabilia, but I have a ball signed by Maz, and a card signed by Haddix. Winning hitter and the winning pitcher. Haddix threw what many consider the greatest feat ever by a pitcher,12 perfect innings. Lost in the 13 the on an error. A great story. Worth reading.
In over 218,000 recorded games only 23 pitchers have thrown a 9 inning perfect game.
Imagine how many home runs Willie Stargell would have hit had he not played about a decade in Forbes Field. He would have had closer to 600 rather than 475.
Not only Stargell, but Roberto Clemente. He has said in interviews that he consciously tried to hit for average and not power because of how cavernous Forbes Field was (well, HE didn't say cavernous), and Clemente had really good power, too. He said something along the lines of "I could hit 30 home runs if I wanted, but I would only bat .265, and it wouldn't help the team."
Think about it. Forbes Field was so big that the ground crew was able to store the batting cage on the field in dead center field, and it very rarely came into play.
My family moved from the Pittsburgh area when I was 2, so my Dad was a Pirates fan. Mom would tell the story about when Bill Mazeroski hit this home run to win game 7 against the Yankees my Dad, who passed away in 1965, ran into the street in his underwear shouting, "The Pirated won! The Pirates won." I'm a Mets fan, but I have a hard time cheering against the Bucs when they are not playing the Mets.
I was only 4 years old when Maz hit this historic homer. Born just a few minutes from downtown Pittsburgh. I don't remember this event as a 4 year old, but I do remember being 5 or 6 years old and wearing a Pirate uniform. I never took that thing off. Maz was one of my favorite players. He always had a big wade of chewing tobacco in the side of his mouth. My grandfather told me that Maz was a clutch hitter. He got hits when the Pirates needed a hit. When I wore my Pirate uniform, I would take a slice of bread, or some black licorice and jam it into the side of my mouth just like Maz, and go in the back yard and throw the rubber ball against the block wall. I would do this all day long, pretending I was Maz. I collected just the Pirate baseball cards and discarded the rest. Pirate cards were the only ones that had value to me. I remember listening to the Pirate games on the radio and when they were on TV, I would never miss a game. Bob Prince, made the games come to life and my hero's were Maz, Clemente and Willie Stargell.
Those were the days when the players and team announcer connected to the local fans. Today, it is not the same. Sadly, I don't follow my Pirates. The players, the culture, the city and everything about the game is different. I miss baseball from the 60's and early 70's. The big contracts and free agency changed the game. The fan has been left in the dust. Players today have no loyalty or respect for the fans or their team. It is all about the individual. The days of Maz, Roberto and Willie Stargell are long gone.
Plenty of Yankee haters in NY like me love this homer.
I'm sure back in the 1960's the Yankees didn't have 80% of their fanbase consist of gullible bandwagon jumpers.
I'm a Yankee fan and to this day I hate black and yellow because of that HR. But I have to admit, from a baseball point of view, it was one of the great moments in its history. Feel the same way about Carlton Fisk's. I'm a baseball fan first and a Yankee fan second.
@@howie9751 Wow. I thought I was the only one out there that felt the same way. MLB fan *first* and Yankee fan 2nd lol. High "5" Sir lol.
@@americangiant1003 Thank you. Baseball forever.
@@howie9751 Wah. Boo hoo hoo.
My mom was a shirt tail relative of Bill Mazeroski. Second cousin or something like that. (Bernice Fithen). I grew up with the stories of the 1960 world series and how proud she was. I've been a Pirates and Steelers fan my whole life. My son and I went to the Pirates -vs Yankees game for the first time in Pittsburgh this year (2023). We entered the field from Mazeroski Way to get to our seats. We wanted to get the best possible seats for the game we could. Our seats behind home plate on the 3rd base side looking straight down the 1st base line. We had no idea our seats were under the #9 Bill Mazeroski Ring of Honor sign. ...AWESOME!!! GO PIRATES!!!!!
Monday night was Steelers vs Browns........... Steelers Win!!! Sharing everything with my son was a once in a lifetime treat.
😃Thanks Pittsburgh
❤ I was at this game w/ papa Pittsburgesse "
+ hubby NYC🎉
THANKS DAD FOR ALL YOU'VE GIVING ME !!❤❤❤
Enter 9th grader Andy Jerpe, a 14-year-old, who had made his way to Forbes Field just a few blocks away from his home for the deciding game. When the Yankees scored twice in the top of the 9th to tie the score at 9-9, Jerpe got up to leave. He wanted to beat the rush out of the park, and he had to get home to help his mother prepare dinner. If it was me, I wouldn’t have been that nice. Dinner would have to wait. Anyway, making his way outside the stadium, he was just a few feet beyond the left-field wall, when he heard a crack of a ball meeting a bat, and saw a ball dropping out of the sky only 15 feet from him, landing in a cluster of cherry trees, across the street from Schenley Park. At the same time, he heard a deafening roar from the crowd. He strolled over and grabbed the ball, while the cheering grew louder and louder. A police officer appeared and escorted Jerpe to the Pirate clubhouse. Inside, in the midst of all the celebrating and spraying of champagne, Jerpe asked catcher Hal Smith (who had hit a 3-run homer in the 8th to put the Pirates in a 9-7 lead) sign the ball, along with Mazeroski. Jerpe then decided to offer the ball to Mazeroski, but he said, with a huge grin, “You keep it. The memory is good enough for me.” So right. Mazeroski will never be forgotten in Pittsburgh. Today, he is honored in the city with a sidewalk plaque in Schenley Park, near where Forbes Field once stood. He’s also in the Hall of Fame, getting there in 2001, mostly for his defense, although the 7th game 1960 World Series homer didn’t hurt.
At home, Jerpe eventually put the ball in a Plexiglas display for safe keeping. That is, until the following spring, 1961, when his buddies convinced him to take the ball out to play with. They went to a playground across the street where Jerpe hit flies to his friends. After several lofters, he shanked a foul into some knee-high weeds off to the right. The kids looked for the ball for a whole hour, but no sign of it. Jerpe even went back the next day and looked again. No ball.
What a shame. The Bill Mazeroski ball was lost forever. In a 2010 newspaper interview written by Bob Cohn of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Jerpe still feels bad for taking the ball to the playground that spring, 1961. But what the heck, he was just a kid.
What would the Mazeroski ball be worth today? A million dollars?
Two interesting bits of trivia from this game. 1) The time of the game was 2 hours and 36 minutes. In today's world, this game would take about 4 hours. 2) Neither team had a strikeout. That is truly amazing!
the fact that neither team had a strikeout may have made it possible to have such a quick runtime if everyone was putting the ball in play early in the count. Still remarkable that can happen with a 10-9 game.
All the pitching changes now.
@@DavidSilva-fq7nt Right. Pitchers no longer go the distance & are yanked after reaching a certain pitch count, schedul ed double headers are a thin g of the past, games are lon- ger, the World Series is play- ed in November long after th e NFL season starts & the N BA season gets underway. I could go on & on, but you ge t my drift. Baseball has gott- en worse instead of better.
The game of baseball was completely different back then. No team had a strikeout, because the pitching was absolute garbage.
and I believe there was not a single walk.
The excited announcer at first declared the final score "10 to nothing!" Can you blame him? It seemed like a 10-run win! What a great and unforgettable moment!
He also called the pitcher Art Ditmar when it was Ralph Terry.
In fairness to the late, great Chuck Thompson: Ditmar was warming up in the bullpen at the time, Chuck was starting to mention that when Maz stopped him in mid-sentence.....
@@26dfb So was Ford, who was expecting to be called in for the ninth.
Yeah no doubt he was excited can't blame him. but the most excited reaction from an announcer was the guy who called the Bobby Thompson's home run that killed the Dodgers in 1951.
still gives me goose bumps.
I HAD A CHANCE IN 1960 OR '61 (GINO CIMOLI WAS STILL THERE) TO VISIT PIRATE DUGOUT BEFORE SATURDAY GAME TO MEET BOB SKINNER, SMOKEY BURGESS, GINO CIMOLI AND BILL MAZEROSKI. AFTER THE GAME, THRY LET ME STANDBON HOME PLATE. FORBES WAS HUGE. GREAT DAY. I MISS IT ALL.
As a seven year old had a chance to see the Pirates play the Dodgers at Forbes field in 1963. I was listening to my dad tell me about Maz's homerun and showing me where it was hit. Thankyou for this video it brought back a great experience I had with my late father . I love baseball!! srl
A number of years ago Sports Illustrated did a special edition of the Greatest Shots in the history of US Sports. Basketball/Baseball/Football/Hockey/Golf/Soccer et cetera ... The Mazeroski HR was ranked #1 on that list. Forbes Field is gone, but that section of the Left Field wall where the ball went over is still there.
Greatest shots? You mean greatest moments?
We were listening to this in class. Our teacher brought in a radio. Thanks for this, I don't believe I've seen it from this angle.
That's good teaching!
TREMERE1
They should still do that today!
And make WS games play in the day
I had enough influence in 8th grade to convince my social studies teacher (who was also a Red Sox diehard like me) turn on the Sox home opener that year. There's something about mid-week day baseball that I absolutely love. ^_^
@@AvsfanGoAvsGo I wonder how many people had radios in the classroom when Don Larsen threw his perfect game in the '56 Worl d Series? That'll never happ- en. Today's teachers would never allow a student to brin g a radio into the classroom, much less a t.v. By playing t he World Series @ night allo ws kids to watch the game on t.v. with their parents.
Kevin Miller my uncle was born 2 days after that
a h/s junior in Libertyville Ill (but born in Pittsburgh to a multigenerational family), I skipped school and went to a friend's
house to watch on 9" b/w tv - sublime!
In '71 and '79, I was front and center in seats at 3 Rivers' for the games! Beat-em Bucs!
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For those of us who cherish underdogs, once in a blue moon, something wonderful happens.
Best moment in baseball! Bill is my cousin and he was the greatest ever! Also a wonderful, personable man. Love him!
My late great grandfather was at this game a few days after my grandfather was born, it’s one of my favorite stories to hear from my pop, RIP to two great men.
This was the first World Series I ever saw and I'm a Yankees fan. It was a back and forth game that rested on a ground ball taking a bad bounce that led to other heroics. I am still reeling from the Maz home run, it was definitely one of the greatest HR moments in baseball. Didn't see it coming.
Chuck at the mike was a colorful serenade. Those of us who listened to him night after night on crackling transistors were blessed beyond belief.
I love the old players, announcers, parks, logo
I remember another time when I was young and simply loved baseball and the Yankees. I had just turned 13, had received a tiny transistor radio for my birthday, and was listening to Game 7 of the 1960 World Series, Yankees vs Pirates. I can picture, as if it happened yesterday, where I was standing and how devastated I felt when the game ended. The Yankees had scored 2 in the top of the 9th to tie the game. And in the bottom of the inning, with Terry pitching and Blanchard behind the plate (Yogi Berra was in LF), second baseman Bill Mazeroski came to bat . . . 5 walks and 0 strikeouts in the entire game; men in suits and fans allowed to run onto the field; the game time was 2 hours and 36 minutes. Important to the Pirates? You might say: there is a large statue in Pittsburg commemorating the hit, on a street named Mazeroski Way.
always a good day when the skanks lose, and skankie douche nation is in mourning wondering how exactly they could've lost, how can the skanks lose? I've only had the pleasure of seeing them lose 1 (2001) during my lifetime but i guess one is better than none, lets go mets....
@Caliente631 To where? AAA?
@@caliente6319 They lost aga in in 2003 & were beaten by the Red Sox a year later in th e 2004 ALCS when Boston e rased a 3-0 deficit before be ating (St. Louis?) to win thei r first World Series since the end of WW1 (1918).
The funny part is that Terry almost got victimized by a walk-off again two years later in game 7 against the Giants. I think it was McCovey who hit a line drive that would have plated the tying and winning runs, except for a nice defensive play by Bobby Richardson to snag the ball, ending the game and the series.
It's a shame that so many people only know Ralph Terry from this....he was actually a pretty good pitcher.
Yankee fan here even I appreciate this the greatest of all home runs #1
God Bless Bill Mazeroski....what a baseball name if there ever was one
@Lighthouse in the Storm 1971 and 1979
Johnny Blanchard walked out to the mound and warned Terry not to throw anything high, which was Maz's wheelhouse. Terry proceeded to do that very thing on the next pitch. Mazeroski is in the Hall of Fame, primarily because of his fielding.
loved Forbes Field !
Not just the greatest home run ever but perhaps the greatest single play in the history of American sports.
Well there's Joe Carter's World Series winning home run to consider as well.
@@oldgordo61that was in game six, this was in game *seven* he HAD to hit that ball otherwise the Yankees would’ve won
@@gutsdw
Mazeroski homered off of New York Yankees pitcher Ralph Terry to end the Series, giving the Pirates a 10-9 win and their first championship since 1925. It was the first of two times the World Series has ended on a walk-off home run, and the only time it has happened in Game 7. Joe Carter's world series winning home run against the Phillies was in Game 6 but nevertheless just as dramactic and thrilling unless you were a Phillies fan. And one could argue Bobby Thompson's home run against the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1951 was one of the greatest game winning home runs unless you were a Brooklyn Dodger fan.
Only to compare.....Miracle on Ice
@@gutsdw Score was tied 9-9. Pirates do not score in bottom of the 9th it goes into extra innings. I have had the luck to see both Carter's and Mazeroski's home runs on the TV broadcasts.
Maz not only did damage with his bat but with his glove. In his 17 seasons as second baseman with the Pirates he turned 1706 double plays, an all-time MLB record.
Pete Rose has often spoken of how it was impossible to take Maz out at second base to break up a double play. He said as a rookie he was bitching in the dugout about how somebody needed to take him out on a double play. He said Frank Robinson told him, "If you think it's so easy, kid, you do it."
The next day, Rose said he got an opportunity, and slid into Maz with everything he had. Maz never moved, and Rose said he just bounced off his legs. When he got back to the dugout, Robinson asked him, "So what do you think now, kid?"
@@russs7574 That's a good story. I've only ever heard Rose say good things about Maz.
What a moment. I watch these videos to drink Yankee tears.
I ran home from school just in time and watch Bill Mazeroski's walk off world series home run.
I was boy of 15 and was in Pittsburgh that day. My dad was a traveling preacher and we had been there for about a month. We were leaving town that very night to return home to Illinois. The local police asked Dad to wait until later in the night because the town was going crazy. He said that there were so many drunken wrecks that the hospital had people in beds in the hallways. I was homeschooling, but re-entered the public school system when I returned home. Post Script. I wasn't at the game but listen to it on the radio. KDKA Bob Prince
And one of the biggest ironies was that Prince didn't get to call the HR on the radio. He was making his way down to the locker room to do post-game interviews at the time, and had no idea how the game ended.
The same thing would happen 12 years later. Legendary Steelers broadcaster Myron Cope would be on his way down to the Steelers locker room to do interviews after what he assumed would be a disappointing loss in their first playoff game ever, and he missed Franco Harris' "Immaculate Reception."
I miss Bob Prince, and that whole generation of announcers...Harry Caray, Ernie Harwell, Milo Hamilton, Lindsey Nelson, Jack Buck, Marty Brenneman, Harry Kalas......today's guys are good, but they're so vanilla. We are very fortunate to have Greg Brown, who is definitely not vanilla, here in Pittsburgh.
Prince was, in fact, on his way down to the locker room when Maz hit the homer. All he knew when he got there was that the Pirates had won. They shoved Maz in front of the camera, and Prince's question to him was, "how does it feel to be a member of the World Champion Pittsburgh Pirates." He didn't know that Maz had hit the winning homer. Gunner told the story a million times, and the tape is out there as well!
I was 9 years and a few days old when this happened.. We tried listening to game in school when some kid had a transistor radio. There was no local broadcast, so we found a very static-ee station out of Pittsburgh, Pa. I lived in NE Pa., kinda between NYC and Pittsburgh. Half the kids were Yankee fans and the other half Pirate fans. I was rooting for the Pirates. I got home from school about 3:35 pm. I turned on the tv and the focas came in just as the ball cleared the fence. The Yankees held all the statics in this world series by far, but still lost the WS. I remember it like it happened yesterday. Everyone forgets the 3 run home-run by Hal Smith in the 8 inning to set the stage for this to happen. What a battle this series was. There is no question that the Yankees were the better team by far, but the best team doesn't always win.
@traybern
Not true. The Yankees were a much better team in 1960. The team that wants it more usually wins. Underdog's win because they put out more effort.
@traybern GO smoke another weed idiot. Your assumption is idiotic and stupid. I can see that you never went to school. I did not say they threw the series. You can make up anything you want.
All time greatst walk-off home run
A flashbulb memory for Pittsburghers. Everybody remembers what they were doing when he hit that home run.
it was the best time ever to be a pirate fan and I was just a kid but will never forget it to the point of even thinking if he can do that I can do anything! and I'm sure many other people felt the same :-)
Heard the game on radio at school. Hated the Yankees but you really had to admire the smarts of Mantle diving back to first.
I was watching this with my dad and grandpa in Watertown, SD. It was great to find this.
Happy birthday Mr. Mazeroski! You are my favorite 2nd baseman. Your record 1,706 DP's is still good.
I remember watching this live. It was an amazing, amazing feeling.
Several years ago I visited the University of Pittsburgh and the site where Forbes Field used to be....the centerfield and rightfield wall ARE STILL THERE...there’s also a plaque commemorating Mazeroski’s series winner....very cool
Will Drucker Home plate is still there, also. It's in the floor of a building that is part of the University of Pittsburgh. It's not exactly where the actual plate was, but pretty close.
And what's really cool is that every October 13 (excluding the covid years) the Pirates faithful still gather at that part of the wall that's standing and listen to a recording of the radio broadcast of the game.
Mazeroski was one of the Pirates greats, I saw Him play on at 3 Rivers in 71!
The two greatest plays in American sports history, Maz’s home run and Franco’Immaculate Reception both in the burgh!
Love hearing Chuck Thompson's voice!
When this happened Oct. 13, 1960. I was 8 yrs. old. My brothers @ I plus my Mom were in my living room all intently watching as Maz homered in Schenly Park. We all charged out on our porch, the mailman just delivered our mail. We're yelling, screaming, hollowing, jumping up @ down. Some people across the street looked at us like we were crazy. It's in the afternoon. Caous, pandemonium, just unbelievable.
This was truly the shot heard around the world
How could anyone thumbs down this???
Yankees fan.
Joe Carter’s WS-winning HR was dramatic to the utmost, but I would have to agree that Mazeroski’s was the most magnificent HR ever.
Jays fan here. But this was a game 7 against a stacked Yankees.
I was born 7 - 15 - 61. There's a good chance I was conceived on this great day in Pittsburgh sports history!
What a way to begin the 60s!
Walkoff to beat the Yankees. One of the best moments in sports history. I love having Bill's cards in my personal collection
Every time I saw this it was the high view behind home. I've never seen the typical left-center field view.
About 15 years ago, Bing Crosby's(part owner of Pirates in 1960) estate found complete game reels of the entire game. They are available to buy. You can watch and listen to either the TV call or the radio call. The centerfield camera was the one that was found. Until then, the only known view was high above home plate. There's a low angle photo where you can see the ball as it was elevating. Very cool too.
Never ceases to make me smile.
This was the best clip of this game I’ve seen. Great mix of audio and video.
This was a kinoscope of the actual NBC broadcast of the game--of all people, Bing Crosby (at one time a minority owner of the Pirates) had it made while he was in Europe. As NBC didn't make a kinoscope of their own, it was considered lost until Crosby's copy was found. This version tags on Chuck Thompson's legendary radio call, but switches back to Mel Allen's television announcing.
By most accounts Mazeroski was the best fielding second baseman of all time (similar to how most people think Ozzie Smith was the best fielding shortstop ever). Also like Ozzie, Maz was actually a below average hitter for his career, so to many people Bill's selection to the HOF by the Veterans Committee was a bit generous. But Maz did leave an unforgettable mark on baseball history with his bat with this Game 7 home run, about as clutch a hit as you can possibly get!
I am proud to sponsor his Baseball Reference page! Maz was a damn good player!
This centerfield camera shot sat in NBC's archives for decades. Forbes Field was a tough tough place to hit a HR. Man, you talk about hangin' a slider right in his "wheelhouse".
Unbelievable. This probably is the most exciting moment in baseball history, certainly the most dramatic home run ever hit because it was a walk-off that ended the World Series. Nobody before or since has hit a home run in the final at-bat to win the Series. This is better than Bobby Thomson's Shot Heard Around The World because Bobby clinched the pennant for the Giants in '51, not the Series (the Giants went on to lose to the Yankees in the Fall Classic). Wish I could have been at Forbes Field that day. Shortly after the Yankees were crushed, Casey Stengel was fired as manager. Maz is one of the Pirates greats. I'm a Detroit fan and love it when the Yankees lose.
Joe Carter did it too
Respectfully NO. Maz strikes out, the game isn't over, you to to extra innings. Thomson's HR came with his team down 4-2, 1 out bottom of 9th. Win or go home time. No extra innings to try again.
@@JJNJ49 Not exactly...if Maz or Thomson strike out, there's still another batter to be the hero.
Art Ditmar sued, and lost, for being mis-identified as the victim of Maz's home run. Chuck Thompson, whose radio broadcast you hear on this clip, was about to mention that Ditmar was throwing in the Yankees' pen, but then Ralph Terry threw his pitch. Thompson also stated the wrong final score immediately after the homer, reporting that the Pirates had won, 10-0, and then gave the right score (10-9) a moment later.
Happy Bill Mazeroski Day!
I was in fifth grade with a transistor radio with ear plug. I got home in time to see the happiest moment for me. I ran out on the front porch screaming the Pirates won! All the kids from junior high were at our house by then.
Ear plug! That was big time back then, good for you!
Watching this on TV as a kid made me a baseball fan.
As I recall, Bill Mazeroski and Joe Carter are the only players to hit "walkoff" home runs to win World Series championships.
One of the top moments in Pittsburgh history!
It is THE top moment in MLB history.
This is the original audio, not the amended version. The announcer made a mistake on the call. Instead of referring to Ralph Terry, he called the pitcher "Ditmar". Referring to pitcher Art Ditmar.
It’s not just the greatest home run ever it’s the greatest play in the history of professional sports.
soccer is my sport...i came across this moment in baseball when reading george Westinghouse 's bio and decided to check it out...but back to the game... i love how he celebrated his home run like the way soccer players and fans do when their team makes a goal...bottom line is i love how sports brings people together in celebration, no matter what color, country or language one speaks...the joy is unanimous. ❤
Hal Smith hit a three run home run the inning before to take the lead, it was the most the odds changed from losing to winning in the World Series off one hit
I think Terry's pitches were high that day. Note that on the first pitch, Blanchard's glove is lower and he has to raise it to catch the pitch and then he goes to the mound. And the other batter he faced, Don Hoak in the 8th, flied to left. Don't know if this was typical of Terry but he did give up the most home runs, 40, in the AL in 1962. He also led the AL in wins that season with 23.
Stayed at home, sick that day. As a White Sox fan, I was pulling for the Pirates.
Watched it live with no one else a home. Amazing 60 years ago..... Amazing today
We would listen to this game on a new fangled transistor radio at recess in elementary school in San Antonio. For some reason, most of us were Pirate fans. It was a highly exciting series even though we were far away from it. Recognition to Roberto Clemente.
I was 2 years old, but I have read all about this moment since I was old enough to read. This and Bobby Thomson's '51 homer were the most dramatic in baseball history. And both were off pitchers named Ralph. I guess that's part why the name became so rare.
The greatest WS game ever!
Thank you Bing.
Only Game 7 walk-off HR in World Series history, and just one of two WS to end on a walk-off (1993, Toronto won on Joe Carter 3-run HR in game 6)
But it was one of 2 walk off homerun from 7th game in history of world baseball. It happened 2009 Korean Series too.
I was in grade school and the administration allowed us to go to the auditorium to listen to the game. I was too young to know a lot about baseball, but I wanted the Pirates to beat the Yankees because they were famous for being such a great ball club. I even prayed, and was thrilled with the victory.
Years later, recollecting how hard life is with social problems and wars, I don't have such a love for sports as I once did. God bless.
What a moment!!!! thanks for the video!
I can't believe it was really 410 to left center. That is insane to me. Ballparks today often aren't even 410 feet to dead centerfield. What a bomb!
Forbes Field was built to make home runs almost impossible to hit. They even had a batting cage in center field. Look it up. It is crazy.
You think that's insane? Center field was something like 456. You could graze a herd of sheep in center field without interfering with the game.
I was in Third grade at Versailles Ave. school in McKeesport, Pa at the time. I had a transistor radio with me that day that the students and teachers listened to the game on. I could have been home In time to see it live on TV, but stayed at school so everyone could listen to it on my radio. Bad move.
I was born in McKeesport, in 1st or 2nd grade up in Port Vue. Magical time for Pirate baseball.
That was a cool look looking park.
It was, but by 1970, the final year, it had become a bit of a dump. The University of Pittsburgh had bought the property (Forbes Field was on the Pitt campus) and basically did not maintenance on it because they could not wait for the Pirates to move to Three Rivers so they could tear Forbes down.
Bill Mazeroski and Joe Carter ate the only two that have lived every baseball playing kid's dream.
I was a 9 year old die hard Yankees fan when this event occurred. I watched it on TV with my grandmother. I was stunned that the Yanks lost!
Same here! I was also a staunch 9-y/o Yankees fan. I was super-disappointed when they lost.
Then Casey Stengel gets fired, all of a sudden the Yankees think he's too old to be their manager