The Best Game Ever: Pirates vs. Yankees, October 13, 1960The Oral History Association's 2008 annual meeting was held in Pittsburgh last October, as the World Series and the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election approached. While the Pittsburgh Pirates were not in the playoffs—and had not been ...
Right-hander Bob Friend, reliever Elroy Face and shortstop Dick Groat were mainstays on the 1960 World Series championship team that upset the New York Yankees. Closer Kent Tekulve got the final out of the 1979 World Series, when the Pirates beat the Baltimore Orioles in seven games in what ...
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...
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...
Yankees, October 13, 1960 The Oral History Association's 2008 annual meeting was held in Pittsburgh last October, as the World Series and the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election approac... T Reeves - 《Oral History Review》 被引量: 0发表: 2009年 The Best Game Ever: Pirates vs. Yankees, ...
The Pittsburgh Pirateshad last won the World Series in 1960 (in an upset win over the NY Yankees). In ’71, Pittsburgh won the NL East by 7 games over St. Louis; in the playoffs they beat San Francisco 3 games to 1. On September 1 1971, the Pirates had fielded the first all-mino...
Kiss It Good-Bye: The Mystery, the Mormon, and the Moral of the 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates 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, ...
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...
The first of those wins, in 1960 against the heavily favored New York Yankees, helped cement Clemente's reputation as a superstar. Forty-six years later, Pittsburgh residents still talk about that David-versus-Goliath matchup as if it happened yesterday.Though Mr. Maraniss did not attend any ...
PiratesFest 2025, presented by RE/MAX Select Realty returns to the David L. Lawrence Convention Center with an additional day slated for the event. General public access will begin on Saturday, January 18 through Sunday, January 19 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Pirates season ticket holders will...