The Greatest Homerun Ever: Bill Mazeroski (Longer Version)

Ranked by ESPN as the greatest home run of all time: http://espn.go.com/page2/s/greatestho...

Forbes Field - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: On October 13, 1960 @3:36 PM, Pittsburgh Pirate Hall of Fame Second Baseman, Bill Mazeroski, hits the greatest and most memorable homerun in Major League Baseball history off New York Yankees pitcher Ralph Terry. The renowned game winning shot, which capped off the best World Series game of all time, occurred in the bottom of the ninth inning of game seven of the 1960 World Series against Casey Stengel's heavily favored New York Yankees. Could there have been a more dramatic homerun? Today, some 50 years later, Maz's blast is still the only Game 7, 9th-inning walk-off home run in World Series history.

Watch Maz's historic homerun as called by the NBC radio broadcast team of Hall of Famer Chuck Thompson and Jack Quinlan :
"Well, a little while ago, when we mentioned that this one, in typical fashion, was going right to the wire, little did we know . . . Art Ditmar throws—here's a swing and a high fly ball going deep to left, this may do it! . . . Back to the wall goes Berra, it is . . . over the fence, home run, the Pirates win! . . . (long pause for crowd noise) . . . Ladies and gentlemen, Mazeroski has hit a one-nothing pitch over the left field fence at Forbes Field to win the 1960 World Series for the Pittsburgh Pirates by a score of ten to nothing! . . . Once again, that final score . . . The Pittsburgh Pirates, the 1960 world champions, defeat the New York Yankees. The Pirates ten, and the Yankees NINE!"

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[WillyM79]

Another great thing is the Yankees losing

[eap1016]

Maz deserves to be in the HOF regardless of the HR. Certainly the Home Run clinched it but Maz was a great all around second baseman.

[ikeknights]

The greatest home run ever!

[retsnom820]

It's all about pitching, still is.

[Rodney Shipley]

What the Yankees could not do was beat the National League Cy Young Award winner, Vern Law. They lost to him twice and they could beat the crafty left hander Harvey Haddex. They lost to him twice as well. All the Yankees did in that series was beat up on the lesser pitthers the Pirates had and got their asses beat when they had to face the Pirate's best pitchers.

[alonenjersey]

I won't ignore his defensive skills. Offensively though, he never really stood out. If my vote counted for something, I'd cast it for Gil Hodges.

[Giuseppe Gigliotti]

Thanks for the post

[dtiai]

I guess what you are saying is being the best fielding 2nd baseman of all-time means nothing for admission into the HOF.

[alonenjersey]

If not for this HR, the only way Mazeroski get into the Baseball Hall of Fame is with a paid admission.

[retsnom820]

The Yankees outscored the Pirates in the series, broke a lot of records but The Bucs won the series. Mickey Mantle actually cried after this one!

[PiratesFan1992]

games 2 3 and 6 were blow aways won by the yankees and they went in to game 7 hoping for a blow away but the pirates didnt let that happen and the buccos beat the yankees at their own game this footage is timeless and will be rerun for several years to come