Bill Mazeroski's Home Run Wins Game 7 of the 1960 World Series
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The 1960 World Series was played between the Pittsburgh Pirates (NL) and New York Yankees (AL). It is most notable for the Game 7, 9th-inning home run hit by Bill Mazeroski, winning the game for the Pirates 10-9, and also winning them their third Championship, their first since 1925. Befitting the wild-and-crazy flow of this Series, Bobby Richardson was named MVP of the Series, the only time that someone from the defeated team has been so honored.
Mazeroski became the first player to hit a walk-off home run to win a World Series. Thirty-three years later, Joe Carter would become the only other player to end the World Series with a home run, doing so for the Toronto Blue Jays in the 1993 World Series, albeit in Game 6.
The pitcher who threw the ball to Maz was identified on TV as Art Ditmar, but was really Ralph Terry. Here's how it was reported on TV that day: "Art Ditmar throws, and there's a long fly ball going deep to left. I don't know, this may do it. Back to the wall goes Berra; it is over his head, home run; the Pirates win!" What a moment in sports history! Pirate manager Danny Murtaugh said after the game "they broke all the records but we won the game." As the great Pirate broadcaster Bob Prince would say after every victory, "we had 'em all the way."
