OT Congratulations NY Yankees

Timrhu, Derek Jeter won this years Roberto Clemente award, and Philly's Chase Utley appears to be one heck of an up and comming 2nd baseman.

Bill Mazeroski

Number 9, second base for the Pirates.

And who hit a home run that defeated the Yankees in game 7 of the 1960 World Series.

Dlr, I get your drift :)

-- Al

Lost interest in baseball way back when they went on strike. I don't care much for football either, now that I think about it. But congratulations are in order.

Al I was 9 years old and lived in Pittsburgh at the time. We listened in the classroom on transistor radios when they first came out. Too bad the owners don't want to win anymore. Dan

Dan -- I too was a kid listening to that series on a transistor radio, in Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY. If I recall correctly, in the three games the Yankees won they scored something like 16, 12, and 10 runs, while the Pirates scored near zero. The games the Pirates won were nail-biters, won by margins of 1 or 2 runs or so.

The climactic seventh game was back and forth, and I believe it was tied at 9 when Mazeroski hit his walk-off home run in the bottom of the ninth. I believe it is still the only World Series ever played that went seven games and ended with a home run.

All told, one of the most memorable series ever played, regardless of which team one was rooting for.

Best regards,
-- Al