Word: mazeroski
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...running onto the field when he shouldn’t have. Yes, the games were often exciting, but the most indelible image of this year’s playoffs was of Giants’ Manager Dusty Baker’s toddler. Not quite Carlton Fisk or Bill Mazeroski...
...They had plenty to choose from, among all the spectacular feats in the sport's 126-year history: making a sensational catch (Willie Mays, 1954), pitching a perfect game (Don Larsen, 1956), smashing a thrilling homer (Bill Mazeroski, 1960, or Carlton Fisk, 1975), hitting a squibbler that took an amazin' bounce (Mookie Wilson, 1986). But they chose one that took no athletic ability at all: walking onto a baseball field at the beginning of a game. When Cal Ripken of the Baltimore Orioles did that on September 6, 1995, he broke Lou Gehrig's iron-man record...
...wasn?t merely bruised pride. It was his utter lack of civility, his cursory attention to team dynamics, his outspoken disdain for Pittsburgh and its fans that turned me against him. He was cold and downright mean - a far cry from players like Willie Stargell and Bill Mazeroski, whose names still elicit a misty tear or two from die-hard Bucs fans...
Your list of 20th century baseball records that won't be broken anytime soon [SPORT, July 27] should have included Pittsburgh Pirates second baseman Bill Mazeroski's astonishing 1966 mark of 161 double plays in one season. JOHN T. BIRD Birmingham...
...Deliverance Evangelistic Church sits on the site of what was once Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium. The Herbert Hoover Boys Club is where Sportsman's Park used to be in St. Louis, Missouri. Crosley Field was swallowed up by I-75 in Cincinnati, Ohio. The spot on which Bill Mazeroski stood in 1960 when he hit his dramatic World Series home run in Forbes Field is actually in a ladies' room on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh. They paved paradise, the old Comiskey Park in Chicago, to put up a parking lot for the new, vastly inferior Comiskey...