{"id":15600,"date":"2026-02-24T04:12:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T04:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=15600"},"modified":"2026-02-24T04:17:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T04:17:12","slug":"bill-mazeroski-89-he-broke-yankee-hearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=15600","title":{"rendered":"Bill Mazeroski, 89. He broke Yankee hearts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ugh. I saw the game on our beautiful black and white TV, and remember how forlorn Yogi Berra looked, standing in left field and seeing the ball go over the fence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s a nice article and includes a video of the homer. I did not know Mazeroski was in the Hall of Fame – he had a 17 year career with the Pirates. On an interesting Yankee footnote, this was the only World Series in history that a player on the losing team was named the MVP. Bobby Richardson<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was Game 7 of the 1960 World Series, when an infielder known for his glove, not his bat, crushed the powerful Yankees with one swing, bringing joy to Pittsburgh.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What ended a seesaw contest that afternoon became one of baseball\u2019s most re-enacted moments, though Carmen Berra<\/a>, whose husband was the Yankees left fielder that afternoon, always refused to relive it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI still can\u2019t watch that replay,\u201d she later told the sportswriter Bill Madden for his 2003 book \u201cPride of October: What It Was to Be Young and a Yankee.\u201d \u201cThe saddest moment I ever had in baseball was sitting in the stands, seeing Yogi standing there in left field, helpless to do anything but watch that ball go over the fence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once they got over their shock, the Yankees, and their fans, felt robbed. The New Yorkers had won their three games by ridiculously lopsided scores \u2014 16-3, 10-0 and 12-0 \u2014 while the Pirates had squeaked by in theirs by a grand total of seven runs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ugh. I saw the game on our beautiful black and white TV, and remember how forlorn Yogi Berra looked, standing in left field and seeing the ball go over the fence. It’s a nice article and includes a video of the homer. I did not know Mazeroski was in the Hall of Fame – he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15600"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15604,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15600\/revisions\/15604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}