Sweet '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 '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 7-4 lead in
the deciding game. The Pirates hadn'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 9-9 in the bottom
of the ninth. At 3:36, Bill Mazeroski swung at Ralph Terry's
slider. As Curt Smith writes in these pages: "There goes a long
drive hit deep to left field " said Gunner. "Going back is Yogi
Berra Going back You can kiss it good-bye " No smooch was ever
lovelier. "How did we do it, Possum? How did we do it?" Prince said
finally, din all around. Woods didn't know-only that, "I'm looking
at the wildest thing since I was on Hollywood Boulevard the night
World War II ended." David had toppled Goliath. It was a blow that
awakened a generation, one that millions of people saw on
television, one of TV's first iconic World Series moments.
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