12 Reasons To Love The Pittsburg Pirates

12 Reasons To Love The Pittsburg Pirates book cover — TABLE OF CONTENTS Maz’s Walk-Off Wins World Series 4 Pops Leads the Family 6 Pirates Move into the Future 8 Cutch Is Clutch 10 Roberto Clemente Makes History 12 The Killer Bees Stand Out 14 Honus Wagner Becomes an Early Baseball Superstar 16 Pirates Come Back Again 18 Barry and Bobby Lead the Way 20 Pirates Honor Negro League History 22 Pittsburgh Hosts the First Fall Classic 24 Pirates Go Back to Buctober 26 12 Key Dates 28 Glossary 30 For More Information 31 Index 32 About the Author 32

12 Reasons To Love The Pittsburg Pirates — page 1 — 1 MAZ’S WALK-OFF WINS WORLD SERIES The 1960 World Series got off to a bad start for the Pittsburgh Pirates They faced the mighty New York Yankees After winning Game 1 the Pirates fell behind in the series The Yankees won Games 2 and 3 Pittsburgh won the next two Then the Yankees won Game 6 And New York won with scores of 16 3 10 0 and 12 0 The National League NL champion Pirates were not out though The World Series came down to a deciding Game 7 More than 36,000 fans showed up at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh They were treated to an exciting game The Pirates went ahead early Then the Yankees charged into the lead Yet Pittsburgh came back again The Pirates took a 9 7 lead into the ninth But New 4 York again knotted it up at 9 9 in the top of the inning Pirates second baseman Bill Mazeroski stepped to the plate in the bottom of the ninth Ralph Terry was on the mound for New York Mazeroski took a ball on the first pitch Then he swung for the fences His blast flew over the left-field fence Home run 55 27 Total score in favor of the Yankees in the seven games of the 1960 World Series The Yankees outhit the Pirates 91 60 during the Series Yankees second baseman Bobby Richardson was the World Series Most Valuable Player MVP despite being on the losing team

12 Reasons To Love The Pittsburg Pirates — page 2 — Mazeroski’s hit gave the Pirates their first World Series win since 1925 And he became the first player to win the World Series on a walk-off home run Fans rush the field to celebrate with Bill Mazeroski as he approaches home plate to win the 1960 World Series 5

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