1960 World Series Game 7: Pittsburgh Pirates vs. New York Yankees (last 3 innings)
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- Опубліковано 1 лют 2014
- One of the greatest WS games of all time. This was broadcast on the MLB Channel. The footage was "lost" for 50 years before someone found it among the personal archives of the legendary singer, Bing Crosby. Bing was a part owner of the Pirates and he hired someone to shoot a 'kinescope' film of this game while he was in France. He reportedly was too nervous to watch the game in person, so he had a film made of it for him to watch later. No official videotape was made of this game altho it was televised, so the public had never seen this game since it was played in 1960. It was debuted in public before a live audience in Pittsburgh in 2010. Bob Costas hosted this showing and on the 'panel' with him on stage were 3 of the players in this game: Bobby Richardson of the Yanks and Dick Groat and Bill Virdon of the champion Pirates. Among the audience were Franco Harris, Hal Smith, who hit a key 3-run HR late in the game for the Pirates, the widow of Roberto Clemente, who also of course played in this game, as well as other members of the 1960 Pirates. Bill Mazeroski also was asked to attend, but he couldnt make it (I believe he was ill), but there is recorded footage of an interview with him at the end. The broadcast was paused several times for Costas to speak with the players about what happened in the game and also with Ms. Clemente about her husband. It was a great presentation.
This is the latter part of the game, beginning in the top of the 7th inning. New York has overcome an early 4-0 deficit to go ahead 5-4. Most of the scoring occurred in the last 2 innings.
Besides Mazeroski's historic series-ending HR, the game features an unusual play (at 58:50) that I've never seen before in all my years of watching baseball. In the top of the 9th, the Yankees rallied to tie the score at 9-9 after Pittsburgh had gone ahead 9-7. The game-tying play occurred with runners on 1st and 3rd with 1 out and Yogi Berra at the plate. He hit a hard smash to first which was snagged by the 1Bman, Rocky Nelson, right after it hit the ground. The runner on first, Mickey Mantle, evidently thought the ball was caught on the fly and he dove back to first to avoid being doubled up. In fielding the ball, Nelson's momentum carried him right towards the bag, which he tagged to record the out on Berra. Mantle somehow avoided Nelson's attempt to tag him out getting back and he made it back to 1B safely. On the play, the runner on 3B, Gil McDougald, scored the tying run. The play is unusual because the ball was a fielder's choice ground ball where the batter was out at 1B but the runner on 1B neither was out nor advanced to 2B. Never seen anything like it.
Mazeroski's HR came on the 2nd pitch leading off the bottom of the 9th. Final score: 10-9. Another unusual aspect of the game is that there were no strikeouts at all. This series was also very unusual in that Pittsburgh was outscored by the Yanks 55-27, yet won the series. Still another unusual aspect: Bobby Richardson was the series MVP, I believe the only time a WS MVP was selected from the losing team. - Спорт
I was at this game and was 11 years old in 1960. A few notes from after the game. The chaos that followed the home run was unbelievable. My dad took me out on the infield and people were scooping up infield sand in their handkerchiefs. Someone had a crow bar and pried home plate out of the batters box, I remember seeing the long spikes that were hanging off of home plate as the guy ran around the field waving the plate. We couldn't ride the street car from Forbes Fied because there was so much confetti and toilet paper in the streets, the street car tracks were jammed up and the cars wouldn't run. By the time we got to the Ft. Pitt tunnel, traffic was bumper to bumper, with everyone hanging out of their windows screaming and throwing out any kind of paper that they had to include toilet paper and confetti. It was like a ticker tape parade, it was absolutely crazy. I am now 74 years of age and have attended many athletic events in my life, but have never witnessed anything to compare with the euphoria that followed the Bill Mazeroski home run that won the world series on that day in Pittsburgh.
Interesting story! Never heard any of this before. Thanx for sharing!
I was on mount Washington watching the insanity from above.
That's a crazy story and a cool experience, thanks for sharing!
Best baseball game I ever saw. My dad,miraculously,got tickets that day and pulled me out of school. We were 6 rows above the Pirates bullpen and onlt 15 yds from my boyhood sports hero, Roberto Clemente.The best arm,glove and bad ball hitter in baseball(with Yogi right behind him).It was meant to be or detiny. The Yankees had all the talent,but the Pirates played as a team,with a fiery Irish manager(Danny Murtaugh) whose trademark was "never say die." The most amazing thing was Maz was not a home run hitter and he hit it out of the deepest part of Forbes Field at 420 feet over a very high cement ivy covered wall. I will never forget Yogi looking desperately at that shot that won the game and the WS.You never can count out the little guy who doesn't know he is over matched.
In 1984 my dad was dieing of an inoperable glioblastoma(cancerous brain tumor). You know what we talked about everyday? The 7th game of the 1960 world series and Maz's miraculous long home run,who had a great glove but not a bat.
This game has the best collective clutch hitting I have ever seen. By both teams. Every time someone had an opportunity to make a big hit, they did it. Yogi's homer in the 6th, Hal Smith's homer in the 8th. Mantle and Yogi's RBI's in the 9th and then finally Mazeroski's homer in the 9th. Good candidate for best baseball game ever played.
It is.
The Yankees scored 55 runs in the series .the 1
Pirates scored 27
The classic Oct. 3, 1951 playoff game that decided the NL Pennant is also in the running for best game played. "The Giants win the Pennant! [repeat about 4 more times] Bobby Thomson hits into the lower deck...!" Giants 5, Dodgers 4, with both teams (and Yankees in the AL) in NY City. I heard some of the 1960 WS Game 7 on our little transistor radios (almost) every boy snuck into school in those days. At least one boy in the class would give the others a running commentary on what was happening, if the others didn't have his own radio hidden in his shirt or pants!
Leo said not two many ball wenr into the lower deck at the polo grounds fsn said it was 6 inch coming in to lower deck
Except the wrong team won😁
This is the way a World Series should be played. In day light so seven year I could watch or listen to it.
Our school played the radio broadcast over the PA system and most of the teachers kept on the speaker in their room. I was in second grade. In the ninth inning, the buses came and we had to load up and head home. Fortunately I had a small transistor radio and we listened to it on the bus ride.
I remember getting to my bus stop just as Maz hit THAT home run. I have been a Pirates fan ever since.
My first WS memory was in 1968. We were let of school early enough to catch most of the game (s). Detroit played St. Louis.
That is a great memory! Sadly, for revenue purposes, it will never be in daylight again. :-(
I prefer the night games. They're more exciting and I can see them when I get home from work.
This may surprise my American friends but as an English boy of 18 in my first term at the Sorbonne university in Paris. I listened on the radio (stayed up late) to hear every pitch of that entire series. My uncle came from Pittsburg and he telephoned me with instructions on how to follow the game, only fair as I had explained cricket to him. Anyway by the time Maseroski hit that last HR I was in a terrible state of nerves. I had drunk two and a half bottles of wine and had so fallen in love with the game that I have followed it ever since. But whenever I am asked for my three greatest sporting moments in my life I still say (after 71 and a half years) - in the order they happened - 1956 , Jim Laker takes 19 wickets in a match as England beat Australia at cricket , 4th test at Manchester. 1960 Bill Maseroski's home run to beat the Yankees 10-9 in the greatest world series ever played, and 1985 at Sheffield,England , Dennis Taylor of Ireland beating Steve Davis of England 18-17 in the world snooker final after trailing 0-7 after the first session and then watching Davis miss an easy final black to take the match and managing to hold his nerve and pot it himself. Yes I am a sports nut and yes rugby is my favourite sport, but for sheer drama and disbelief at what I saw or heard, those are my three choices. I never thought I would ever see that HR so thanks more than a million for posting it.
Antoninus Eve : Wonderful post. Thanks for sharing your experience. When we follow our teams we dare to hope and risk our emotional well being to chance. But at least we are rewarded with a handful of moments that are truly spectacular. This was one of those moments.
It's Pittsburgh, you forgot the "H"!!!
thank you for sharing that.
Antoninus Eve "They think it's all over...IT IS, NOW!!!!!"
@@pmojh3 You're not in Kansas anymore
Hal Smith is my grandfather. I'm very proud of his accomplishments and to watch this game so many years later is even more remarkable. For everyone saying he swung 3/4 around then there would have been a strike called. He's got the ring!!
You must be very proud....What a great moment he had....He really appreciated the applause at the reunion
+Michael Smith Interesting. I got Hal's autograph on a scorecard, along with six other Cardinals players who were on the Cardinals bus following a game in Philly in 1957. I also got Wally Moon, and pitchers Sad Sam Jones, Lindy McDaniel, Von McDaniel, Larry Jackson and Vinegar Bend Mizell autographs that night - half the pitching staff.
That putz Murray Dickson would not sign for me, I was a starry-eyed 15-year old kid. What a gruesome personality, he just glared at me when I asked him for an autograph. He would be perfect as a crap attitude player, today. I detested him from that time onward.
your granddad doesn't get enough credit for his contribution - how different
things might have been without that 3 run homer
In today's baseball, Smith's swing would have been called strike three, either by the home plate ump or help would have been asked for, and I'm sure the first base ump, if he was really paying close attention, would have called him out too. He clearly broke his wrists and swung at that. But I'm glad he wasn't called out so we would have the dramatics of Bill's homerun!
For real grew up hearing about Hal Smith, and how's about Clemente's hustle legging out that infield single then Hal Smith pow ! 3 runs 9-7 Pirates !
I was 14, and had to spend. 2 weeks in bed because of severe anemia. My mom brought the radio into the bedroom so I could listen to the series. Unlike others, I was rooting for the underdogs because I knew about this kid from Puerto Rico who played ball like his life depended on it: Roberto Clemente! He became my hero. How many of us cried when he died in a small plane crash while helping to get supplies to disaster victims.
Roberto is a Pittsburgh legend and even has a major downtown bridge named after him! When I was in Carolina in Puerto Rico in the 1970s and mentioned to several locals that I lived in Pittsburgh, I was treated like a visiting hero! RIP Roberto- Pittsburghers will always love and remember you!
Roberto was mana. God needed to bring him home at a young age.
My dad got me out of school ,7th grade,and we saw the 7th game together. Best sporting event I ever saw and we were in the right field bleachers above the bullpen. We were 100 feet from my favorite player, Roberto Clemente.This was the best Yankee team because they had 7 men go into the hall of fame including the manager and G.M.The Pirates had 2-Clemente and Maz.It goes to prove the Pirates never said ,Die. It also goes to prove talent is important ,but not as much as desire,hunger, and a feeling of destiny. Danny Murtaugh pushed his players beyond their perceived limits and had tremendous instincts who to play.
When dad was dying of a cancerous brain tumor(1984) in Monteifer Hospital ,above where the old Forbes Field used to be, we laughed about Maz's miraculous home run and how the game went back and forth. I also remember the dejected face and hopelessness of Yogi Berra watching Maz's home run win the game in sudden death. It was hit in the deepest part of Forbes Field(425 ft). Mazoroski was never considered a great batter or power hitter,but the best fielding 2nd baseman ever.
The second most exciting sporting event ,next to game 7 of the 1960 WS, was watching Phil Mickelson beat the pros in the PGA Tuscon Open in 1991 ,as a junior at A.S. U.I fit him with his first optical correction ever,a sports performance contact lens. I miss seeing the two best bad ball hitters ever,according to hall of fame broadcaster Joe Garagiola,Roberto Clemente and Yogi Berra. I got all of Yogi's books and repeat all his Yogisms to my athletic patients. They are funny and make perfect sense.Clemente paid the ultimate sacrifice to help others more needy than himself. Both saw the big picture and had outstanding Eye-hand coordination. All people that see the big picture go to a higher place. RIP Yogi and Roberto.
I am trying to remember the five (?) Yankee players who you indicated went into the Hall of Fame....Mantle, Ford, Berra certainly did. Coates, Duren, Stafford, Terry, Ditmar, Maas, Short, Shantz, James, Arroyo, Blanchard, Dimestri, Kubek, Richardson, Boyer, Long, Hadley, McDougald, and Lopez did not. Neither did Maris, Cerv, Howard, or Skowron. Stengal did, as did George Weiss (he was still GM). Don't think Ralph Houk never made it even though he coached three teams to the WS and won two of them in New York.The only way you get to 6 is if you count the Yankee Announcer, Phil Rizzuto. The Yankee announcers, Red Barber and Mel Allen are Frick Honorees but are NOT member of Baseball's Hall of Fame. So there is no 7 Yankee HOF and certainly counting managers, GM's and announcers is, well, questionable at best.As a result, not sure where you are getting 7 Yankee HOF's. Only three were players. The other two, a great Coach and General Manager, who were both let go at the end of the 1960 season. I know you are proud of what they did this World Series was a fluke. You don't get beat 16-3, 12-0, and 10-0, and think you are anything but really lucky to have won. But win they did and that can never be taken from the '60 Pirates team.So, in reality, there are only three Yankees destined to be in the Hall of Fame as players on the 1960 Yankee team. Many people, like my brother, who idolized Willie Mays, forget that the Yankees were a series of great teams with some great star players like Mantle, Ford, and Berra but did not have that many more HOF players then other teams, such as the Giants from 1958 to 1964, who had McCovey, Orlando Cepeda, Willie Mays, and Juan Marichal. The Yankees in that time period had Mantle, Ford, and Berra who was getting pretty old by 1960. Smaller number of HOF players, but the Yankees play in 6 of the 7 World Series and win 3 of them, and the Giants go 0 for 7. I constantly remind my brother to this day that great players (Mays) don't win championships by themselves (he played in 4 and was on the winning side 2 times) but great teams do, and being a great team mate (Mantle, who played on 12 World Series teams his first 14 years in baseball and was on 7 winning teams) is a critical part of making a great team. And in team sports, the only thing that really counts is winning championships. Just ask the Spurs of the 2000-2009 decade, the Celtics in the decade of the '60's, and all those great Yankee teams of the 20's, 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's, and 1996 to 2000.
Stingy cheap George Weiss would not look players in the eyes on contract negotiations. Cheated Yogi Berra in '49. If Yogi's mom had not sent $$$ from St. Louis he would never got those 10 rings & dozens of Yankee records.
I just wanna say this is beautiful man and the Pirates will never say die.... you and your dad talking about Maz homer was miraculous itself.. RIP
Jeff Eger Murtaugh was the Brad Stevens of baseball.
Clemente the best 5 tool all around ball player of all time, in my book, AND a good man.
I was 9 years old at the time, growing up in NJ, and a big Yankee fan. I’m 70 now, but still remember like it was yesterday how disappointed I was with their loss in this Series. Couldn’t believe it then, still can’t.
Terrific video. Mel Allen's play by play is terrific. He describes the action, gives the count and the score frequently (nobody seems to do this now, even on the radio), and knows when to shut up. Blabbermouth Joe Buck should watch this and maybe we could be spared 90% of his endless stupid chatter.
So true. It is great to hear all these comments by everyone. I thought I was the only one.
Problem is that he is pretty limited to play by play- which he does do very well- BUT theres absolutely no drama that he tries to ,or is really able,to build! For example, when Mantle comes up in the 9th ,down 2, with 2 men on, he has GOTTA build the drama of the situation of the Great Mickey Mantle coming up in game 7 of the World Series, as the go ahead run in the 9th inning ! Hes GOTTA give us some build up of at least SOME of who the Mick is! And how it comes down to this! Mel gave you NONE of that - ABSOLUTELY ZERO ! And after the base hit, gave you NOTHING of how big a hit it was! Nothing about how the Great Mick had done it again!
I agree, joe buck sucks , he 's fast becoming the worst announcer since tim mc carver .mccarver ruined every game he ever called . Both never shut up , bob costas also needs to retire and disappear . He 's full of himself .
@@irar4665 Nope, baseball fans don't need that hype, we already know it.
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I'll disagree strongly
A Houston Astros fan here. But also...a baseball fan. It is really nice, that the City of Pittsburgh, has preserved the outfield wall of Forbes Field, near Schenley Plaza/Park. It is a shame, so many of our long standing ballparks from times past have disappeared. I hope to visit that outfield wall one day, should I ever visit Pittsburgh. Nice to see video footage of Forbes Field. 👍☀️👍 And even though, I was conditioned to hate the Pirates, (in a competitive friendly way of course), because of the time the Astros spent in the NL Central with the Pirates...any team that has ever toppled the Mighty Yankees...is ok in my book. 😊
One of the things I like most about this - no instant championship caps or t-shirts for players to wear.
+maynardsmoreland Thank you. Baseball's concession to the dollar stores of America these days, it seems. And remember, originally all the "cool" winning players wore them with the price tag hanging down. Oh, God, how far we have come in reverse in this world.
Tags hanging off the caps? Doesnt take much to irritate you, does it?
No goggles needed for eye protection!
I didn’t see Champaign either. Players were dressed already.
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Top of the eighth, 5-4 Yanks, and STILL 10 more runs to be scored! Incredible.
This was the greatest WS game ever. Sheer excitement
And the game still went only 2:35. It started at 1 and ended at 3:35 based on clock above left field wall when Mazoroski homered.
I love watching the old time players of any sport. They always tell it like it is and like it was. No baloney or ridiculous attitudes. Straightforward. This happened two years before my birth but I do know about it. I remember my Dad talking about it.
That was fantastic. That game had it all from MVPs, legends of the game, some of the most historic events in the history of baseball and even the great Mel Allen doing the broadcast.
im 16 and i was always hearing about this world series game from my grandma so, i decided to see if UA-cam had any footage of the game and they did :D This is the first time i actually saw footage of the amazing game, watching this gave me goosebumps. I wish i was there, i wish i could have witnessed this firsthand. amazing is all i can say. This Game Was Absolutely AMAZING :D GO BUCS!!!!!
This still might be the greatest World Series game ever played. And I love the present day Hal Smith standing to acknowledge the ovation from the Pittsburgh fans in the auditorium 50 years later. That is the best part of this to me. So touching.
He struck out ....
Agreed Noone struck out amazing
That is not even close to being the best World Series game. Just think about what you just said, then look at Kirk Gibson, on one leg. Mookie Wilson`s ball between Bill Buckner`s legs, Reggie Jackson`s 3 home runs on 3 swings, the Red sox and Reds , and Fisks Home run in game 6. Yankees vs. Braves game 6 beating Greg Maddux by a double from Girarde. The Marlins beating the Yankees on a bloop hit walk off. Ya gotta remember all those games .....and many more. Plus ,it was a bad call that let Smith hit with 3 strikes, that leaves a blemish in many peoples opinion. But you have a right to your opinion. Baseball is a fickle game, is it not?
@@TheZayne34 Everyone has the right to their opinion - I agree with ESPN senior writer David Schoenfield - see his article at www.espn.com/mlb/playoffs/2010/columns/story?id=5676003. Four lead changes and the only game 7 walk off home run in World Series history just to name a couple of items. This beats all other games in my book. To say this game is not even close seems more than a little out there but hey everyone has different tastes.
@@robertbutton5729 I am NOT saying this game was not fantastic , because it was amazing!! But there are soooo many amazing W.S. games, that it is ,in my humble opinion impossible to really say one is better than the others. For there are so many mind blowing games. Good luck to ya my friend , and showing your support for your team is an honorable thing!
I like that in this time batters didn't step out and adjust their equipment between every pitch, and pitchers just kept throwing pitches. I saw this game live on a B&W TV when i was young.
It broke my heart seeing the yanks lose that game. I was 10 years old.
Very little nut scratching in the batter's box, either. lol
Forbes Field was in such a beautiful setting with Schenley Park behind. I remember seeing my first game there when I was real little. I will never forget seeing all that amazing green grass in the outfield with the color of the player's uniforms against it. Saw the Pirates play the Reds that day.
Me too. My first time at Forbes Field was a Cardinals game. I remember center field was so huge.
My first game at Forbes was in 1961 when I was 9. Couldn't sleep the night before. We lost to the Dodgers 5-4. There was hope in the 9th as Joe Christopher walked to lead off the bottom of the ninth but then got picked off of first base. Rough times.
And remember, this is the most intense last 3 innings of probably any season ever.
2016 comes pretty close though.
And hearing Mel Allen call the game, that was priceless. He was in the booth alone and stuck to calling the game, no constant opionating or endless analysis. No three loud mouths in the booth seeking to get in the last word. And best of all, no one was talking about politics or social issues, just stuck to the game. Also, the game was a slugfest and lasted only 2:35. The game started at 1:00, and the clock behind left field read 3:35 when Mazoroski homered. I left school in New Jersey at 3 with Yankees up 7-4 going into bottom of eighth. I didn't like the Yankees, and I was bummed out. Most of my schoolmates, of course, were Yankee fans. It took roughly 15 minutes to walk home from school, and when I got home it was 9-7 Pirates. Naturally, it seems, the Yankees rallied in 9th to tie game. Then Mazoroski had the last word. It was my favorite World Series moment until Cubs won World Series in 2016(I became a Cub fan when I moved to Chicago in 1963 when I was 13).
Just got back from Pittsburgh last week....stopped at the University campus and touched the "wall" and the flagpole...all that remains from Forbes Field....there is a small plaque embedded into the steps indicating where Maz hit the homerun and I got to see the home plate inside Posner Hall....a true treasure of a trip for any baseball fan.
Until this kinescope was discovered recently among Bing Crosby's effects, the only recording of the game was of the radio broadcast. Every year, it would be played on that site to the faithful who would gather to listen and trade stories. A grail site for any baseball fan.
This is still the greatest game ever played.The fact that there was not one strikeout makes it even greater. I love Hal Smith in this piece. What a warm and humble man.
I was in 8th grade and we got to watch the world series during school and saw the ninth inning home run.Was a great experience for me.
Hal Smith struck out but the check swing wasn't called. No asking the base umpire for help back then. Then he homered.
@@howie9751 There was no 'check swing'. Smith's swing went completely around -- no doubt. In !960 I was twelve years old; I saw that game and could not understand why the ump did not call Smith out. It was/is infuriating - to this day. That missed strike call made a big difference in that crucial, final WS game.
@@karencarter8292 Yes. But back then the ump had to see the pitch and the swing. Luckily they later went to checking with the base umpire. Between that and the ball that hit a pebble the Pirates were lucky that game, and Casey not pitching Ford in the first and fourth games. But the Pirates were gritty, you have to give them some credit. And I'm a Yankees fan.
@@howie9751 I am aware of that. And the Pirates were lucky indeed.
Casey Stengels last game as yankee manager, bad hop to Kubek, Mantle evading getting doubled at first and of course the homers by Hal Smith and Maz. What a game. Next year Maris and Mantle chase Ruth.
Imagine if this game had today's media coverage. This one blows Game 7 of the 2016 World Series out of the water and I would go so far as to say it tops Game 6 of the 1975 World Series.
Look at how many runs, hits, changes of pitchers, and they finished in under 3 hours. Today's media coverage would have ruined it, too many doofuses talking too often about too little.
This is the greatest most exciting Game 7, with the Mets-Red Sox 1986 Game 6 its only serious rival for me.
I'll admit I'm biased, but I totally agree with you!!
Pittsburgh fans showing class and respect as they applaud Kubek when he leaves.
thanks for this excellent video--it looks surprisingly good. I was 8 years old living in Pittsburgh when this happened.
I just shared it with my 92 year old father. we enjoyed it, thanks
Glad you enjoyed it!
This game marked the end of an era.Expansion was coming,soon followed by artificial turf,the lowering of the mound,and playoffs.
Hal Smith died last week.
@Tom Dockery. Exactly. The 1960 season was the last of 8-team AL, and the '61 season was the last of the 8-team NL. Four new teams in 2 years. Then in '69, four new teams in one year.
I was in the army at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii and heard the final on the radio, but didn't get the TV version until a day later. I remember the fandom throwing newspapers or programs in the air after the homerun. I was from Harrisburg and a friend was from Pittsburgh so I kept him updated on the score. Boy was he happy over that win. In those days the losing team went on tour to Japan. The next year the Giants lost and I got a one-day pass to go down to Honolulu Stadium just to see Willie May's play in an exhibition game against a Hawaiian team. I sat right behind the 3rd base dugout. Very rewarding.
This is when baseball was at its greatest. It is still the greatest game ever devised by humans (my opinion) but it has been pretty much ruined by greed, money, cable TV and a couple of commissioners that have installed some really bad changes to the game.
DH and Interleague play are the biggest imo
Yea let’s start the extra innings by putting a guy on 2nd base to start the inning
How moronic
Being a British fan of the great game of baseball and I love it I really do, but due to cultural differences I have to dissagree about the greatest team game, of the bat and ball variety and say cricket just edges it.
Peace and love brother, I hope you see this.
@@alanboots1106 I’m sure there are millions of people who will disagree with you on that one
Most pro sports have been soiled in this way.
Ill never forget that game it was my Birthday I was given a Transistor radio for a present and went outside to listen to the game on radio I was 11 years and remember being shocked that the yankees Lost When I went back to my party My Uncle told me the yankees lost and i said I no and started to cry. I was such a Yankee fan for a young Kid and I always here Mel Allen saying Theres a Long drive and My Heart Sunk.
Damn, that's a pretty cool story
No commercials after every 2 pitches
No DOT COM every 10 seconds.
No stupid graphics all over the screen.
Just good old baseball.
Watching a baseball game on tv TODAY COMPLETELY SUCKS.
THEY CAN TAKE ALL OF THEIR WORTHLESS COMMERCIALS AND STICK IT UP WHERE THE SUN DOESN'T SHINE. 🤛
You kidding,right?
And the announcer simply did the play-by-play, no non-stop worthless commentary. It sounds like Mel Allen.
@@irar4665 Your kidding right?
J Polar ...i havent watched liar TV in 16 or 17 years...it causes brain damage...America believes whatever bullshit they put on a screen...Back in the day the saying was..
You cant believe that...
Its on TV !!!
@@irar4665 You are being a dick, right. Just because it isn't in hi-def triggers you? Most people at the time were lucky to have even one tv in the house.
No one can ever take this gem away from us...so proud to always be a Buccos fan..no matter what!
Watched this game live as a 10 year old Pirate fan and watched the video several times as an adult. Several distinct aspects of this game jump out at a true baseball fan. The pace of the game and the fact that there were no strike outs is amazing. The bad hop double play ball is legendary. The swing that Hal Smith takes just prior to his three run homer is as vicious a swing as I've ever seen. The play in the top of the ninth where Mantle gets back to first safely was physically impossible. This game, this series in reality could NEEVER had happened, but it did. Ah, the magic of baseball!!
Thank you. I have never watched this and it was a special 75 minutes.
i was 5yo in Seattle and i swear my first memory of sports was maz's HR.... i just recall being in our living room and people going crazy on TV... in these turbulent, crazy, sickening days of the 2020 election and all the nonsense, I yearn to be back in the 60s reliving my wonderful childhood of sports, trick or treating, drive in movies, chumming around with my brothers and pals, buying nickel candy bars and chasing the popsicle wagon, all the while spying on cute girls. GAWD, we've gone so wrong. thanks jazznik for uploading this piece of magnificent history.
We have gone wrong. Woke world.
Thanks for the upload, got to relive my childhood again. Forkball pitcher Roy Face was a great closer.
Wow, Whitey Ford! One time my father, visiting his home town, went over to his childhood friend’s house as they were going to go fishing. When my father stepped into the house his friend wasn’t there but an older man whom he didn’t recognize was. My father said hi, went to the kitchen, fetched a couple beers, returned to the living room, and sat next to the man. They drank their beers and watched a Yankees game. They socialized about fishing and baseball. A couple hours later his friend arrived, having been running late all day. The three of them then went fishing. As it turned out, the third guy was Whitey Ford. My father had no clue that his friend became friends with Whitey Ford since their childhood years.
And...?
@@yankee2666 Right, what kind of fish?
Marlin Williams Thanks! Pretty wild, huh?!?
Yank ee well, ummm, my father spent an afternoon/evening fishing with Whitey Ford!
Will Law Ha ha!
Thank you so much for sharing this from one of the best world series ever. God bless everyone from Pat
My name is Pat too. I heard some of the game on the school bus riding home, think I saw Maz’s homer when I got home. I lived in Pittsburgh, actually suburban Bethel Park. Best game I ever saw, i was so thrilled. Mel Allen was a good announcer for national TV, but Bob Prince was the announcer in Pittsburgh, he and Joe Woods. I turned 8 on Sep 6, don’t remember the date of this game, they didn’t extend the season nearly as much then, it might have been before my birthday. The season was 154 games, they changed it to 162 games sometime in the 70s or 80s
@@patrog21 Season was extended to 162 games when leagues expanded to 10 teams in 1961 and 1962.
This is an amazing 1+ hours of the greatest 7th WS game ever. Mel Allen play by play, what beats this? I remember hurrying home from 1st grade just in time to see Maz's shot. Still get chills!
It was definitely a fans game back then. The fans congratulated Maz as he was coming home. What a time back in baseball history. I love it.
I bring this up because I feel like all of Pittsburgh needs to understand how powerful the baseball team has been through history
Bobby Richardson was very instrumental in bringing Me to the Lord and Discipled with me for a year. Good Christian man
Great to hear. If you don't mind me asking, how did you get to know Bobby?
Bobby was my favorite Yankee...almost inspired me to choose baseball as a career. But decided to follow the Lord in ministry...maybe Bobby somehow influenced that choice too.
Yes, I remember Bobby Richardson being a Christian. I think he was manager of University of South Carolina later.
Bite me.
Bobby Richardson is a true
Gentleman.
Any Yankee fan old enough to have watched this game on TV that day, still feels a cold chill up his spine watching Yoggi turning away from the wall making it clear that it was all over. I am an old Yankee fan and remember watching the game in my college's cafeteria that day. Chill still cold!!
As if you didn’t win your fair share!
Yogi says he was turning to play the ball off the wall.
Wow, what a game. It's so much more enjoyable watching the game with just one announcer. Now they have three people yapping away in the booth with way too much useless information. Thanks.
I agree. Most times I just turn down the sound and listen to the app announcers.
You're kidding,right? While Mel is a great play-by-play announcer, there is not nearly enough "color" thrown in by either Mel himself, or by a color commentator if there would be one.
For example, when Mantle bats in the 9th with 2 on and down 2, someone has GOTTA build the drama of that moment!!! This is the Great Mickey Mantle getting up in the 7th game of another Yankee World Series, down 2 and he's the go ahead run- so we GOTTA hear of who the Mick is, how big the situation is, and how it comes down to this. Mel gave you NONE of that- I mean absolutely NOTHING!
And after the base hit, gave you NOTHING of what a big hit it was , and how the Great Mick had done it again!
No bling, just ball.
@@irar4665 There was only one out when Mickey came up, remember? That’s why he was able to make that impossible play on Yogi’s grounder when he was on first base, and McDougal scored the tying run.
But I get ya, I just don’t agree. The suspense was real, no one had to emphasize all the obvious facts. 7th game of the Series, 9th inning...and I was in my third grade classroom, Miss Entsminger didn’t care. Didn’t know what happened until we got out, and as a young Yankee fan, that stung bad.
@@richardhyppa1967 . Yes,definitely suspense to the fans watching - especially if you were a Yankee or Pirate fan- but he announces it like it was a Sunday afternoon game in June ( and even for June, that woulda been bad announcing!)
Also, I know there was 1 out- I twice wrote that they were "down 2" - meaning they were 2 runs down 😊
Thank you for posting this great video Jazz !!! I played Little league for Oakland Youth League from 1969-1972 and after Forbes Field closed we were allowed to practice and have exhibition games there. It is a cool memory knowing that I played on that field before they tore it down !
I remember this game, sort of. I was running a 3-mile race in Hamilton (Ontario) and had just taken the lead. Suddenly, the spectators in the stands went crazy. I thought they were cheering for me. Later I heard it was for Maz.
Thank you for this video. Priceless for baseball fans who grew up in those times.
I wish I had been alive to see this game. It was almost like a boxing match between the Pirates and Yankees....and Bill Mazeroski and Hal Smith delivered the K.O. punches.
Forbes Field looks like it was such a beautiful ballpark. How wonderful it must have been to have seen a game there.
+HK Hilner i was there twice, it was awesome. I even got to sit in the dugout once.
Very nice!
It was a real ball park. Actually PNC is a great ball park too. Forbes Field was enormous thus not that many home runs were typical and each one was more precious given the dimensions in center and the power alleys. Maz's was over the 410' wall and Hal Smith's was even further. It was quite a feat to hit a HR at that park. BTW, our daughter was born on Oct. 13, 21 years later to the day and nearly to the hour of Maz's game winning, walk off HR.
@@raysnyder6051 Maz"s HR went over the wall between the 457 ft and 436 ft markers on the wall.
Oh it was , the memories
My earliest sports memories are from 1960: watching this on TV, hearing the Eagles beat Green Bay for the championship (on radio), and seeing Wilt play in his rookie season, live, at Convention Hall in Philly.
You sound like an Eagle's fan who had to put up with that stupid black out rule NFL had for home games. I suffered through that asinine rule in 1963 with the Chicago Bears. Thankfully, football fan in chief, President Richard Nixon pressured Congress in 1973 to require home games be televised locally if game was sold out 72 hours in advance. I imagine NFL owners feared the sky was falling. If I had been an adult, I would have found a way to watch that game without much expense. I likely would have driven to somewhere in Wisconsin, Packerland, to watch it. You likely would have done same with your Eagles. That championship game was the only post season game Packers lost.
First World Series I ever saw on a black and white TV as a 9 year old in our classroom in Costa Mesa, CA. I was hooked on baseball for life. In 1966 I met Bob Skinner at Del Mar Racetrack along with several other Pirates likely as guests of Bing Crosby (part owner) who loved Del Mar. As a lifetime Dodger fan I think back on remarkable World Series' and my first one is amazing, still to this day.
I remember listening to this game while serving in the army in Germany. The difference in time had us listen to it in the early evening although a day game in the states. No tv just radio. Maz’s home run was really a great climax. Even though I was from Cleveland still remember it as a great game unforgettable
If you watch the Maz homer closely go over the wall.. you see the streaking image of a kid moving from left to right who was leaving the park at that moment. He got the ball. The police escorted him to the locker room to give to Maz and Maz signed it and told the kid to keep it... He had the memory in his brain.. the kid kept it all winter in his bedroom and his friends talked him into playing with it in the spring... Ball got lost forever during a pickup game Kid lives near Wash. DC now. and the story was in the Baltimore Sun a few years ago..
interesting jack. quite a story thank u for it. just think how much that ball would be today
You know, there was an episode of "Leave It to Beaver" entitled "Ward's Baseball," which I read in the Web as airing April 1960, only 6 months or so before this game here. That story sounds eerily like the plot of that episode---almost like the kids had watched it, and maybe got that idea. Sad.
Funny Clemente gave me a ball, not signed but I lost it playing with a friend, it went into the woods, searched like crazy couldn't find it ,little did I know .
This is one of the first games I ever saw on TV. No game since ever had so much drama. So many heroes, and nobody remembers any of them except Maz.
Yall notice how much faster the pace of the game is? The boys are just playing the game. Not trying to overthink. Thats why people hung on to their radios. They players are not obsessed with themselves.
Could not agree more. It is baseball at its best!
Yeah. Batter up! No stepping out after each pitch, fidget with batting gloves, fidget with cap, fidget endless!!
Absolutely right on, brother!
Ratings disasters? How young you are. In those days people hung on to tv's and portable radios in shops, in schools, in the streets. Baseball ruled the world of sports, in those days.
+Robby Bonter I can see his point, though. As big as baseball in general and the World Series in particular were from a cultural standpoint back then, TV ratings were never going to be as good as they might have been as long as most or all of the games were played when millions of people were still at work or school. That's why they started playing the weekday WS games at night in the '70s, and why they finally abandoned day games entirely in the '80s.
I'll bet the weekday RADIO ratings were huge prior to the '70s, though.
Well, in those days baseball was the undisputed king of sports in this country. Then followed boxing and horse racing.
Today, of course it's all NFL, NBA, and NCAA Final Four, along with NASCAR. Things have changed a little.
No question, when the Dodgers left Brooklyn, it marked the beginning of the end for baseball's supremacy as a spectator sport in this country. Biggest franchise relocation mistake of all time. Just a few months later, in Dec. of 1958, TV got a bonanza out of the classic Colts - Giants NFL championship game and the TV-NFL marriage has never looked back from that day forward.
+Mike Dumas I wonder if my Cubbies make the World Series this year if Wrigley will host at least ONE day game. I think they should, just to bring back a bit of classic old school tradition.
Baseball and Basketball are still right behind Football according to TV Ratings. Baseball and Basketball are actually pretty close, but baseball is more popular than basketball with people over 40 and women.
I was twelve years old, I was a newsboy at Forbes field that day. I watched the greatest game ever played in Forbes Field. Let me first thank Hal Smith who put us back into the game, then Bill Maz. A Most awesome home run.
Wow, more icing on the cake. Thanks.
Awesome. First time in my life that I've seen the view, of this home run, from the center field camera. Fantastic.
I love the fact that both clubs had and still have respect for each other
I was living in Morgantown, Wva at the time, about 70 or so miles south of Pittsburg and it was a day game as all series games were at that time. I was in junior high also and when Mazeroski hit the homer everyone cheered and went home happy.
World Series games during the day, what great memories! I can't stay awake for current Series game, though I did in 2016 when Cubs finally won. That was inspite of all the beer I consumed to get through that game.
42:46 The announcer says the Hal Smith homer is "one of the most dramatic home runs ever hit in a World Series."
Little did he know...
hehehehehehe
Hal Smith hit a three run homer in game 7, 1960 that allowed Bill Mazeroski's homer to be the winner. Bernie Carbo hit a three run homer in Game 6, 1975 that allowed Carlton Fisk's homer to be the winner. Smith and Carbo both deserve to be remembered with Mazeroski and Fisk.
On radio Chuck Thompson said to start the bottom of the ninth, "Well, when we said a little while ago that this one was going down to the wire, little did we know."
K
@@44032 Yes. And this from a Yankees fan.
I like how players of that era, were a bit chunky, out of shape seemingly, but really knew how to play the game.
You mean real human bodies without steroids.
Let’s remember that the original film was not “widescreen” and when you stretch the original image to fit today’s widescreen format, people appear quite a bit chunkier.
Not really. Adding to those baggy uniforms, there is a lot of camera distortion that makes the players appear shorter, stockier.
Alot of that was the uniforms. I would say that Smoky Burgess looks the most unlike a baseball player I ever saw.
If anything guys were much thinner than they are today.
I wasn't even alive yet but as a Pirates fan this makes me so happy!
It's still so crazy to see, in these older videos, guys celebrating with each other with HANDSHAKES and not high fives (since they weren't even a thing yet haha)
Wow, the ball isn’t taken out of play every time it hits the ground!
It wasn't ONE of the greatest World Series games. It was plainly and simply THE greatest.
Give me a LOUSY World Series game, any one, played in early October in the sunshine, over a November, night game in the mid-west. I don't know what you call it, but it is not baseball, it is just TV ratings ball, now.
@@robbybonfire23 Night games have more tension. And the crowds are wilder.
Only if you’re a Pirates fan!
@@syourke3 I'm a Yankees fan and I died with Maz's home run. But it was the single best game 7 every played.
howie9751 I’m a Yankees fan, too, but I was still too young to remember this series. My earliest Yankee memories are from 1961 or 1962. The Yankees outscored the Pirates by a huge margin in this series. It seems unfair to me that the series turned on a ground ball hitting a pebble in the infield. Kubek never had a chance to field it and it was a sure fire double play ball. The Yankees were by far the better team. But the seventh game was certainly one of the most dramatic endings of all time. I understand Mickey Mantle actually broke down and cried afterward.
greatest baseball game in history.....greatest baseball moment in history....new york has never gotten over it
You are correct....60 years and many championships later I still haven't gotten over this one
But what an incredible moment
You are right It is very difficult getting over an umpire giving Hal Smith four strikes to hit his home run.
@@karencarter8292what a TOTAL MORONIC ASININE statement 😂!!!!!? Get over it!!!!! It's only been 63 years!!!!!?
I recall this game -- I was in the sixth grade living in San Antonio Texas and loved baseball like nearly all kids at that time. Maz’s homer is unforgettable! The Yankees were a great team and seemed to be on TV on some channel every weekend (Diz and PeeWee/Buddy Blatner CBS games of the week) great memories indeed! Btw many players on both teams were combat vets from WW2 and Korea....!
Those fans saw the best game ever played...and I was a Yankee fan.
Ditto.
Thank you for these memories.
Have great memory of this game. Was on Canadian military duty in Egypt and I could only hear this game on short wave sitting in a field in our compound. Was thrilled when Mazeroski hit the home run.
Can’t help but smile when watching this. Great game by any measure. I grew up loving the game and playing it, but sadly I can’t stand to watch it anymore because it’s just not the same game anymore (sigh).
Same here.I haven't watched a game for about 25 years. The television coverage isn't fit for human consumption.
With all due respect to the 1975 Reds and Sox, this was the greatest WS game ever played. This from a Yankees fan whose heart was broken that day.
1986 bill buckner and even game 7 in 86 both spectacular.
And to think this all started
From kubek's injury .
He was sent to a Pittsburgh hospital, where he married his nurse .
@@dcasper8514 I've heard Kubek has hard time talking about that play to this day. My advice would be to lighten up especially since Yankees won next two Series. I never heard Kubek met his wife in the Pittsburgh hospital. I know nothing about how that relationship worked out over the years.
@@mrbob424 Well the ending was.
@@dcasper8514 He wasn't even supposed to be at short by then. He was supposed to replace Berra in left field and DiMistri in at short. Stengel fell asleep again.
So awesome. Thanks so much for posting this. Maz’s HR is the true shot heard around the world - there is no other.
You're welcome!
close 2nd; Thompson 51 still # 1.
@@rayknutsen9780 Correct. Giants weren't even supposed to be there. They turned on the jets and caught the Dodgers. Classis 50s NL baseball. Thomson's number 1 Maz 2? Or Fisk 75?( great game)
@@Wixom2200 Thompson and Maz are one and two but the order is up for debate. Fisk's HR only tied the series, but it changed baseball forever. BB was falling in ratings and that series not only brought it back to life, but networks realized what more camera angles would do for TV games. BB re-emerged after that.
I was pulled out of school (3rd grade) along with my older brother that Wednesday by our mom - my dad had purchased scalper's tickets to Game 7, and we attended. I still have my ticket ($11 face value) and had it signed by both Bill Mazeroski and Harvey Haddix (winning pitcher of the game) years later. Mazeroski also signed my 1960 World Series program. In 1959 Vernon Law and Smokey Burgess rented homes on our street in Eastmont (Gilmore Drive), and we played with Veldon Law; in 1960 Vernon Law rented a place on the next street.
I discovered this a couple of years ago. NO strikeouts in this game. Amazing.
Man...this game! A great video. A few things I noticed right away. There doesn't appear to be any advertising or even a black or green screen behind home plate. Just fans in their suits and dresses! And how about those tailored uniforms! I remember wearing a 100% wool uniform growing up in the 50's and 60's playing Little League and high school baseball. This is back when all the World Series games were played in the day light. I remember growing up in Norther Jersey, where everyone was a Yankees fan and our teacher allowing us to listen to the games during class on the radio. School was dismissed and I remember getting home to see the Pirates celebrating. I was broken hearted! The next season, 1961, the greatest team in my lifetime, the 61 Ysnkees. One last comment, is there a better name than the Pirates Gino Cimoli?
Yunieski Betancourt ?
What a time! -- when every trimming of the stadium isn't stamped with ads and bright lights. Just good old fashioned baseball under the blue sky. It's amazing what money does to things...
Not until you get to the '69 Expos and their catcher (as their PA guy would say it), John....Boc-ca-BELLLLLLLA!!
Yes, Pete lacock. Honorable mention rusty kuntz
Gino later worked for UPS in San Francisco.
Many of the men in the stands are wearing jackets & ties. My, how times have changed!
That's because they left work early to go to the game.
@@BeachBumRAP No, it's because it was just the style of the day. Casual clothes just weren't much of a thing, yet. A lot of these guys owned just that one suit you see them wearing.
Yes. But changed for both good and bad. I remember my Dad taking us to Forbes Field in the late 50s and 60s. The men wore coats, ties and hats. The ladies wore dresses. But everyone smoked, too. I recall the steady smell of cigar smoke during the entire game. Wasn't so bad in the stands with fresh air, but it was pretty gross in the men's room and in the tunnels on the way out.
Really what has happened is that in the US we have become a nation if slobs. Women walking around in house shoes, yoga pants, hair a mess, men with their hair overgrown, baggy sloppy pants down their legs. It's pathetic.
I was watching it ! So many memories of those days watching baseball on black and white TV
As a Yankees fan that bleeds pinstripes, I should hate the Pirates, but I could not and never have. Although The Yankees were the superior team, especially considering this was what Mantle called the best team he ever played on, but the better team doesn't always win and they/Yanks/ had 7 games to prove it, but did not.
Always respected The Pirates from the 60's on and really enjoyed the '71 team beating those damn Orioles. Pittsburgh is a great sports town and they deserved this WS and I hope they get back to a WS soon.
Can we go back to these fast paced, not constantly interrupted games?
it's advertising..take away advertising and you take away the multi million dollar salaries...
You could, at least between pitches, by not having batters step out after each pitch to adjust their batting gloves, etc. Velcro has ruined the game. That, and players who don't hustle.
What a game! I was a yankee fan from Oklahoma but I loved that exciting game and was happy for the pirates.
Thank you Chevrolet, as well as MLB and jazznik2.
May you and yours stay well and prosper.
Terry
WOW!...This was Great!...I really enjoyed this...I remember everyone of these players, and fortunate to meet Maz back in 87 or 88, and talked about this at a convention. Still a life long Dodger fan growing up in LA, was so happy for the Pirates beating the Yanks, who beat up my Dodgers many times...We listened to this game 7 on our transistor radios in class that day back in LA...I still collect baseball cards today in my 70's mainly the oldies.......Brings back so many Great memories, of when baseball was the 'ONLY' sport!.....Go 60 WS Champs, 'Pirates'....
It almost seems as if THey didn't take so much time before each pitch. kinda cool. Guys weren't hopped up on steroids. This shits raw.
+AbsintheColour
Also, didn't see people talking shit after every play.
No, the game was much faster paced back then. As a matter of fact, in 1959, when Harvey Haddix pitched his famous "no hitter" against the Braves (12 perfect innings, gave up a hit and a run in the 13th to lose), the time of that game was 2:54. Sh** that will only take you to the bottom of the 5th in a Yankees-Red Sox game today.
Haddix and Lew Burdette both pitched complete games that day.
1:14:13: Gino Cimoli: "They broke all the records and we won the game."
"They got all the records but we won the game". Great quote.
That was FANTASTIC. Thanks for posting this video.
You're welcome. Glad you enjoyed it!
The time of this 10-9 World Series game 7: 2:36. Imagine.
Between inning (commercial) breaks were 1 minute. Would have been 2:52 with the later two-minute breaks and 3:08 with the three-minute breaks in the current post-seasons. 5:08 if the Red Sox or Yankees were involved...
Indeed a different time. The business of baseball was baseball. Even a Game 7 with its greatest audience was not exploited with more commercials & delays by players & coaches. The game had a brisk pace. No screwing around. This was the Golden Age of Baseball.
@@clintscroggs65 yup..advertising ruins everything..
The greatest home run ever!! No debate no arguments the greatest home run ever!!
No scratching your ass...no fixing your batting gloves...no pointing to the sky...no stupid pitch clock...just the game of baseball the way it's supposed to be played! Those WERE the days!!!
Thanks SO MUCH for posting this. As a 13 yr old kid, I actually watched this game on b&w TV - as many responding here did also. Absolutely one of the greatest WS games ever.
Wow- 1st time seeing Clemente when he was young
Very disrespectful of announcers who called him Bob. His name was Roberto and he was born in Puerto Rico.
@@jaymorgenthal9479 Bob Prince who was Clemente's biggest fan called him Bobby...nah, there were real and bigger issues that upset the Great One...
no batting helmets,batting gloves,names on back,replay review,pitch count,and no steroids,just baseball in baggy pants.
No organ music, either. Another major plus.
did'nt notice that
kennatiousc
They did have batting helmets
helmets were not required in the mlb until 1971
You can clearly see a number of players wearing helmets. The Pirates were the first team to adopt them.
If I ever had a time machine, I would just go back in time and randomly watch baseball games. Imagine being there live!? For now, I'll be happy with gems like this on UA-cam.
You might be bored without the modern scoreboards and amenities. Or get behind a pole. There's a reason they built new ballparks.
@@howie9751 Or I can enjoy the experience if I went back in time. I am sure the same is for Wrigley and Fenway. It's a step back to a different era.
@@VL1975 I love going to Fenway but it's expensive and if you get behind one of their bad seats, you literally won't see the game. Including some box seats. Wrigley didn't do anything for me. I grew up with the original Yankee Stadium, the Polo Grounds and briefly Ebbets Field. I love Camden Yards but most of the new parks lack the feeling of baseball, not matter the conveniences. I enjoyed Comiskey Park twice, but in the upper deck I stayed away from the bathrooms and concessions stands.
This is one of the best WS games ever. Unparalleled with excitement!
Although no strikeouts were recorded, perhaps one should have been. Just before Hal Smith hit his three run homer in the 8th inning, on a 2-2 count, he went most of the way around on a possible third strike. Under the present interpretation of a "swing", there would be no doubt that Smith would have struck out and the inning would be over. If that was the case, it is unlikely that Bill Mazeroski would now be famous.
It wasn't until the late 80s/early 90s that they started calling checked swings as strikes. Obviously Smith swung 3/4 of the way around. But in those days, if the ball missed the strike zone, ANY attempt to check a swing, no matter how late, wasn't called a swing.
58:52 the greatest heads up play in World Series history. Mantle used his head and dove back to first, to allow McDougald to score the tying run. Without that, there is no Bill Mazeroski HR.
Costas pointed out that Mantle's better play would have been to run to the middle of the base path between first and second until the runner from third scored...Mantle took a big chance there...if tagged it would have been the end of the game.
I have had to look at that play about 20 times and still cannot believe what Mantle did.
I remember the World Series games were all day games. Couldn’t watch em due to school. Used to sneak in a transistor radio and covertly listen to the games. Love hearing those old names. Love it! Thanks.
Love that the opposing players don't talk to each other on the field during play
They do talk to each other really
Many are saying Stengel deserved to be fired for not starting Ford in 3 games, but Whitey wasn't known for his endurance. There was no 7-game Series in which Whitey started and won 3 games. Yes, he could have relieved, but he had just pitched the day before. One or two batters might have been his limit.
And they get on Casey for not pinch hitting for Shantz in the 8th inning. Yes, he probably should have. But the Yankees now had a 3-run lead and Bobby had stifled the Pirates for 5 innings. The bad hop that hit Kubek in the throat should have been a double play, so Shantz could have gotten out of the 8th without giving up any runs. Stengel may have made some bad judgments here, but he got to the Series 10 times in 12 years, winning 7, including 5 in a row. No manager has ever compiled as good a record as that.
Rich Ryan Whitey was 12-9 that year and had won his last 3 games to get over .500. There were some that thought he was finished. I even read Golenbock's Dynasty where Whitey said he thought his 2 CG shutouts in that Series saved him from being traded. Somehow after all these years there is this revisionist history about "how could Whitey not start 3 games in 60" but at the time there wasn't a lot of second guessing. Whitey had periodic arm trouble in 59 and 60 and wasn't that durable. Of course in 61 he won 25 games.
What was really troubling about Stengel's managing during that Series was that 9th inning. He had Dale Long, a very slow runner, get a pinch hit and then not be pinch run for right away. Long was pinch hitting for the SS and Gil McDougald was going to play SS in bottom of 9th anyway. Why did Stengel wait until Long is on 3rd and there is a strike on Berra to pinch run McDougald? Can you imagine if Long is thrown out going 1st to 3rd on Mantle's hit? Stengel was losing it.
+Rich Ryan
Stengel was a great manager, but he also had the horses. In fact, while Casey was doing well in New York, Al Lopez was doing an even better job in Cleveland and Chicago. Difference, when Lopez was in Cleveland was Casey having Berra behind the plate, Mantle in CF, and Rizzuto - McDougald - Kubec at SS; whereas Lopez had to work with lesser talents like Jim Hegan behind the plate, Dale Mitchell in the outfield, and a futile succession of shortstops, starting with George Strickland.
Lopez also got unlucky when Cleveland traded SS Ray Boone to Detroit, Detroit switched him to 3B, and Boone starting hitting a ton for the Tigers, after not hitting much in Cleveland, to where he tied Jackie Jensen for the A.L. RBI title in 1958. Maybe Cleveland should have given the SS job to Boone over Strickland and stayed with him. That is one move Lopez missed.
+Rich Ryan Your grandmother could have done as well as Casey with the players and pitchers he inherited, over the years.
I think you're right. My grandmother's name was Joe McCarthy.
You are so right. From 1955 through 1958 the Yankees played four 7-game Series in which Ford started the opening game. In none of them did he pitch the seventh game. Only in 1958 did he make three starts. In that Series against the Braves, Ford started the first and fourth games against Warren Spahn. Casey also sent him out to pitch the must-win sixth game against Spahn with only two days rest. He was removed in the 2nd inning in a game in which the Yanks prevailed in 10 innings. This is evidence of lack of endurance.