1960 World Series Video: Pirates top Yanks in a Thriller

In this great seven-game series, the Yankees outscored the Pirates, 55-27. Unfortunately for the Bombers, composite scores don't count, and the Pirates won when Bill Mazeroski hit the game-winning homer off Ralph Terry in the ninth inning of Game 7, breaking a 9-9 deadlock. New York's Bobby Richardson was named World Series MVP, the first time a member of the losing team received that honor.

Chuck Thompson was calling that game on the radio, and he choked in classic fashion, getting both names and the score wrong:

Well, a little while ago, when we said that this one, uh, in typical fashion, was going right down to the wire, little did we know! ... Art Ditmar throws ... There's a swing and a high fly ball going deep to left, this may do it! ... Back to the wall goes Berra, it is ... over the fence, home run, the Pirates win! ... (long pause for crowd noise) ... Ladies and gentleman, Bill Mazeroski has just hit a one-nothing pitch over the left field wall to win the 1960 World Series for the Pittsburgh Pirates by a score of ten to nothing! ... Once again, that final score, the World Champion Pittsburgh Pirates TEN, and the New York Yankees NINE!

Yogi Berra had a terse, but accurate, assessment of why the Yankees lost: "We made too many wrong mistakes."

This video, in color, covers all seven games in detail. It's hard to ignore the generic bat-hits-ball sound (a bunt gets the same "thwack!" as a 450-foot homer), but it's great to see Vern Law and Elroy Face and Dick Groat and Roberto Clemente and Harvey Haddix and Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra and Ralph Terry and, of course, old Casey Stengel in action.