A countdown of the greatest games of a Steel City institution When
slow-footed former Pirate Sid Bream broke the heart of the "Bucco"
nation, it was Game Seven of the 1992 NLCS. He slid across the
plate in the bottom of the 9th for the Braves, giving them the
pennant with a heart-wrenching 3-2 victory. The run began a
mind-numbing slide that enters its third decade of sub .500
performances. The curse of Sid Bream was born. Until the surprising
2012 campaign, a generation of Steel City baseball fans had
hungered for the Pirates to be involved in an actual pennant race,
a goal that even the most diehard could not have imagined. There
was a time that it wasn't a far-off dream, but instead an annual
right. From 1970 through 1979, Pittsburgh won six eastern division
crowns and two national championships. While impressive, the 1970s
were only the second-best decade in franchise history. Classic Bucs
looks back to the beginning of the twentieth century, the
indisputable best decade of the Pittsburgh Pirates, when a young
and brash team captured four senior circuit titles and their
initial World Series in 1909. During the years between those two
memorable seasons, the club won two other world championships in
1925 and 1960, the latter of which culminated in arguably the
greatest contest in the history of the game. On a memorable fall
afternoon on October 13, 1960, a second baseman known more for his
defensive prowess than his bat became the only man in the history
of the World Series to end the last game of the fall classic with a
home run. The second baseman was Bill Mazeroski, and he smacked a
Ralph Terry pitch over the left field wall at Forbes Field to give
the Bucs a wild 10-9 victory over the New York Yankees and send the
town into hysterics. Incredible moments like this are the
inspirations for this book chronicling the 50 greatest Pirate games
of all time. Memories of these games are sure to bring a collective
smile to the Pirates Nation. Classic Bucs tells the story of this
celebrated old franchise to a new generation of Pirate fans, a
generation that has been looking for its own Mazeroski moment ever
since Bream slid across home plate three decades ago.
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