Viejo Dinosaur
EOG Master
Bill Maz hits a game winning home run in the ninth inning of the 1960 World Series...I was nine years old and rooting for the Pirates....Trivia question, who was the Yankee left fielder looking up at that home run?
Etched in my mind for 60 years...Yogi Berra.
I was 6, and watched the game.
I lived in NY at the time, & the Yankees were the first sports team I rooted for.
NY outscored the Pirates by a humongous amount. Lost 4 games by 1, crushed the Pirates in 3 games, something like 9-0, 12-1 & 14-2.
With no historic perspective, a 6 y/o rooting for a team because they had a Mickey & a Yogi (and great Ballantine Beer jingles), I thought that was the unfairest sporting result ever.
Now of course, having gone through 60 years of bad beat experiences ... I STILL think NY losing that series was the unfairest sporting result ever!
The "Shot heard round the world" was Bobby Thomson of the Giants v the Dodgers to win the 1951 Pennant.Thank goodness for the benefit of video archives, as I wasn't born yet when the shot heard around the world occurred!
Mazeroski was put in the Hof by the veterans committee in 2000.
By far the worst stats of any hall of famer.
260 lifetime hitter with 130 hr.
Bobby Richardson was the MVP in the 1960 ws.
Harold Baines for the show.It is a photo finish at the wire between Bill Maz and Phil Rizutto as to who is the worst player in the HOF
Hard to argue for/against either one