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Author : Rick Cushing
Release : 2010-03
Genre : Sports & Recreation
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Book Rating : 989/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates by : Rick Cushing
Download or read book 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates written by Rick Cushing. This book was released on 2010-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bob Marchinetti
Release : 2014-07-29
Genre : Sports & Recreation
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Book Rating : 275/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Pirate Gold: The 1960 Season by : Bob Marchinetti
Download or read book Pirate Gold: The 1960 Season written by Bob Marchinetti. This book was released on 2014-07-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pirate Gold: The 1960 Season is a day by day account of the 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates, who rose from a decade of futility to become the champions of major league baseball. After exceeding expectations to win the National League pennant, they found themselves matched in the World Series against the most prolific dynasty baseball had ever seen: the New York Yankees. Featuring stars like Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, Yogi Berra and Whitey Ford, the Yankees were entering their tenth World Series in a twelve year span. The Yankees pummeled the Pirates in three games of the World Series by scores of 16-3, 12-0, and 10-0. But the determined Pirates, led by Vern Law, Roy Face, Roberto Clemente and Bill Mazeroski managed to win three close games to force a seventh game showdown for the championship. It was the seventh and decisive game, won in a manner unprecedented in the history of the World Series, that gave us the treasure of Pirate Gold.
Author : Bill Nowlin
Release : 2013-04
Genre : Sports & Recreation
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 499/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Sweet '60 by : Bill Nowlin
Download or read book Sweet '60 written by Bill Nowlin. This book was released on 2013-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : David Finoli
Release : 2015-04-06
Genre : Sports & Recreation
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 721/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Pittsburgh Pirates' 1960 Season by : David Finoli
Download or read book The Pittsburgh Pirates' 1960 Season written by David Finoli. This book was released on 2015-04-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the history of the Pittsburgh Pirates, no team has been more memorable than that of 1960. In the decade before, the team produced only two winning records: a second-place finish in 1958 and in 1959. In 1960, they put it all together to win the pennant. Their reward was a trip to the World Series against the favored New York Yankees. In the Yankees" three winning games, they outscored Pittsburgh 38-3, but the Pirates were able to win three to send it to Game 7. In one of the most exciting contests in the history of the sport, the Pirates came up in the bottom of the ninth with the score tied. At exactly 3:36 p.m., Bill Mazeroski hit a home run over the left field wall to give the Pirates a memorable championship. This book tells the story of that magnificent team and its glorious victory, which will be etched into the minds of Pittsburgh baseball fans forever.
Author : David Finoli
Release : 2015
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 48X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Pittsburgh Pirates' 1960 Season, The by : David Finoli
Download or read book Pittsburgh Pirates' 1960 Season, The written by David Finoli. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the history of the Pittsburgh Pirates, no team has been more memorable than that of 1960. In the decade before, the team produced only two winning records: a second-place finish in 1958 and in 1959. In 1960, they put it all together to win the pennant. Their reward was a trip to the World Series against the favored New York Yankees. This book tells the story of that magnificent team and its glorious victory, which will be etched into the minds of Pittsburgh baseball fans forever." --
