1960 Pittsburgh Pirates - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates write by Rick Cushing. This book was released on 2010-03. 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
"Had 'Em All the Way"
"Had 'Em All the Way" - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook "Had 'Em All the Way" write by Thad Mumau. This book was released on 2015-07-10. "Had 'Em All the Way" available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates were a special team--team being the operative word. There were no superstars, although Roberto Clemente would become one, and nobody had a record season. The Battling Bucs frequently came from behind to win late in the game, with Pirates broadcaster Bob Prince signing off, "We had 'em all the way." Pittsburgh was the Sad Sack of baseball through most of the 1950s, and as the Pirates grabbed the National League lead early in the 1960 season, fans wondered if the guys in vest-shirts and black sleeves could indeed hang on. And then there was the World Series, the one everybody but the Pirates thought would be won by the Yankees, in which Bill Mazeroski provided the most dramatic finish of all sports championships. This book, featuring interviews with Clemente, Dick Groat, Bob Friend and Dick Schofield, chronicles the Pirates of 1960--a team of friends--and their push through a long and magical season.
Sweet '60
Sweet '60 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sweet '60 write by Bill Nowlin. This book was released on 2013-04. Sweet '60 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Pittsburgh Pirates' 1960 Season
The Pittsburgh Pirates' 1960 Season - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Pittsburgh Pirates' 1960 Season write by David Finoli. This book was released on 2015-04-06. The Pittsburgh Pirates' 1960 Season available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Pirate Gold: The 1960 Season
Pirate Gold: The 1960 Season - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pirate Gold: The 1960 Season write by Bob Marchinetti. This book was released on 2014-07-29. Pirate Gold: The 1960 Season available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
