Sweet '60: The 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates (The SABR Digital

Sweet '60: The 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates (The SABR Digital Library)

Sweet â€™60: The 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates Edited by Clifton Blue Parker and Bill Nowlin With Associate Editors: Ron Antonucci, Clem Comly, and Len Levin With contributions by: Alan Cohen, Alfonso Tusa, Andy Sturgill, Bob Hurte, C. Paul Rogers, Cary Smith, Charles Faber, Clem Comly, Clifton Blue Parker, Curt Smith, Dan Even, Dan Fields, David Fleitz, Dick Rosen, Donald Frank, Gary Gillette, George Skornickel, Greg Erion, Gregory Wolf, Jack V. Morris, James Forr, Jan Finkel, Jim Sandoval, Joe Schuster, Joe Wancho, Joel Goss, Jorge Iber, Mark Miller, Mike Jaffe, Peter Bauck, Rich Westcott, Rob Edelman, Rodney Johnson, Ron Briley, Rory Costello, Skip Nipper, Stew Thornley, Thomas Ayers, Thomas Van Hyning, Tim Herlich, Warren Corbett 340 pages, including over 75 photos from the Pirates archives. Sweet â€™60: The 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates is the joint product of 44 authors and editors from the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) who have pooled their efforts to create a portrait of the 1960 team which pulled off one of the biggest upsets of the last 60 years. Game Seven of the 1960 World Series between the Pirates and the Yankees swung back and forth. Heading into the bottom of the eighth inning at Forbes Field, the Yankees had outscored the Pirates, 53-21, and held a 7â€“4 lead in the deciding game. The Pirates hadnâ€™t won a World Championship since 1925, while the Yanks had won 17 of them in the same stretch of time, seven of the preceding 11 years. The Pirates scored five times in the bottom of the eighth and took the lead, only to cough it up in the top of the ninth. The game was tied 9â€“9 in the bottom of the ninth. Â At 3:36, Bill Mazeroski swung at Ralph Terryâ€™s slider. As Curt Smith writes in these pages: â€œThere goes a long drive hit deep to left field!â€ said Gunner. â€œGoing back is Yogi Berra! Going back! You can kiss it good-bye!â€ No smooch was ever lovelier. â€œHow did we do it, Possum? How did we do it?â€ Prince said finally, din all around. Woods didnâ€™t knowâ€”only that, â€œIâ€™m looking at the wildest thing since I was on Hollywood Boulevard the night World War II ended.â€ Â David had toppled Goliath. It was a blow that awakened a generation, one that millions of people saw on television, one of TVâ€™s first iconic World Series moments.

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Sweet '60: The 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates (The SABR Digital Library)

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