There are many things that are given the apparition The Greatest. This, readers, as spring training games begin in baseball for the 2026 season, is simply the greatest home run of all time.
It's the bottom of the 9th- game seven, 1960 world series. It is tied 9-9 as the upstart Pittsburgh Pirates come to bat. It is October 13, and the clock in Forbes Field has just ticked to 3:36 PM. The greatest game in baseball history is about to experience the greatest ending.
Ralph Terry is on the mound for the Yankees. Second baseman Bill Mazeroski comes to bat. He is an exceptional fielder. Nobody turned the double play better. He is not a power hitter. He will end his career with 138 home runs and a .260 batting average.
The Yankees were baseball's powerhouse. The Pirates had great pitching, great fielding, a few power hitters and a budding superstar with a gun for an arm in right field named Roberto Walker Clemente.
By game seven the Pirates had won three games with the scores of 6-4; 3-2; and 5-2. The Yankees had blown out the Pirates in their three wins 16-3; 10-0; and 12-0. Game seven was a classic see-saw battle with strange things occurring like a pebble from a ground ball from Bill Virdon hitting Yankee shortstop Tony Kubeck in the throat allowing the Pirates, who were behind 7-4 in the bottom of the eighth inning to avoid a double play and go on to take the lead 9-7. The Yankees tied the game in the top of the ninth, and thus Maz walked to the plate in the bottom of the ninth about to make history.
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Note the mistake in the call as Ralph Terry throws the second pitch the announcer calls him Art Ditmars, who was not on the mound. This series is also the answer to a great trivia question- name the only player on a losing world series team to be named MVP? Yankee Second baseman Bobby Richardson.
RIP. Too bad Nutting owns the Buccos now and has the team in perpetual disarray.
Worst owner in all of sports.
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