Mazeroski hit one of the most famous home runs in Major League history, the walk-off winner against the Yankees in Game 7 of the 1960 World Series -- the first and only World Series Game 7 walk-off homer. But Mazeroski reached the Hall of Fame in 2001 due to his reputation as perha...
In 1960, an upstart Pittsburgh Pirates team beat the highly favored New York Yankees in the World Series. Given the power of a Yankee roster that included Mickey Mantle, Whitey Ford, and Yogi Berra, that improbable victory did more than give longsuffering Pirates fans some...
And Haddix would officially be a part of history the following year: He was the winning pitcher in Game 7 of the 1960 World Series. 2. The solo no-hitters: Nick Maddox, Cliff Chambers, Bob Moose, Dock Ellis, John Candelaria The Pirates have thrown six no-hitters, and in five of ...
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As a kid in Oakland, he was in the stands when Babe Ruth hit three home runs in his last game at Forbes Field, and in the 1960s, he was an usher when Mazeroski hit the home run to beat the Yankees in the seventh games of the World Series. Later he'd work at Three Rivers, PN...
NBA draft in 1952 but time in the military interrupted his basketball career and the Pirates made it clear -- it was either baseball or basketball. Groat chose baseball and spent several seasons with the team. He would go on to win the World Series twice with the Pirates in 1960 and ...
The Torre Bert experiment took a more serious turn on November 28, 1960. A West German observatory announced that it was receiving a strange signal on a Soviet space frequen- cy. The brothers tuned in, and heard hand-keyed Morse code repeating the international distress signal, S-O-S, ...
The classic 1960s space piracy novel has to be H. Beam Piper’s Space Viking. Set at a point in Piper’s future history between the collapse of the Terran Federation and the rise of the Galactic Empire, it captures the Space Viking adventures of Lukas Trask....
Davenport's casting was partly because of his late father Nigel Davenport who was a major character in the 1960s pirate film A High Wind in Jamaica, which both Bruckheimer and director Gore Verbinski enjoyed.[19]"I really have a problem with the terms hero and villain. The only true evil...
PITTSBURGH -- The four newest inductees into the Pirates’ Hall of Fame all have something very important in common: They won World Series rings with the franchise. Right-hander Bob Friend, reliever Elroy Face and shortstop Dick Groat were mainstays on the 1960 World Series championship team th...