Statues of Pirates ' Hall of Famers Honus Wagner, Roberto Clemente, Willie Stargell and Bill Mazeroski are positioned at various points outside of PNC Park.

Several notable members of the Baseball Hall of Fame such as, Roberto Clemente, Willie Stargell, Bill Mazeroski, Babe Ruth, Ted Williams and Mike Schmidt have played at McKechnie Field during their careers.

Bill Mazeroski with and Hal Smith with were the only Pirates dragging their feet.

He and Bill Mazeroski were the last Pirate players remaining from the 1960 World Series champions.

The Pirates were in the World Series for the first time since the heroics of Bill Mazeroski ( who appeared in this series as a pinch-hitter in Game 1 ) in Game 7 of the 1960 match-up against the New York Yankees.

Examples include Bill Mazeroski, who is the only player in Major League Baseball history to end a seventh game of the World Series with a walk-off home run ( however, Mazeroski is a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, due primarily to his status as one of the greatest defensive infielders of all time ); Paul Henderson, a Canadian ice hockey player who scored the deciding goal in the 1972 Summit Series ; Mike Jones, who tackled Kevin Dyson at the one-yard line on the final play of Super Bowl XXXIV ; and Jimmy Glass, an English football goalkeeper, who is remembered for scoring a goal in the last seconds of the final day of 1998-99 English Third Division that kept his club in The Football League.

In spite of his reputation as a non-slugger, Mazeroski actually hit another decisive home run in the 1960 Series, tallying half of the Pirate team total over the seven games.

The bordering street Mazeroski Way is named for former Pirate Bill Mazeroski.

Carter joined Bill Mazeroski as one of the only two players to win a World Series with a home run in the bottom of the ninth inning of the deciding game.

Seven of the players, Ron Santo, Nellie Fox, Orlando Cepeda, Hal Newhouser, Bill Mazeroski, Richie Ashburn and Larry Doby have since been inducted.

Mazeroski was a member of ex-teammate Bill Virdon's coaching staff with the Pirates in, a year after retiring from playing.

In the scene, Oscar Madison was distracted from witnessing the play by an annoying phone call from Felix Ungar ( immediately after sarcastically predicting to fellow sportswriter Heywood Hale Broun that the Mets still had a chance to win if Mazeroski hit into a triple play ).

These cases display memorabilia from all schools past and present in the Ohio Valley Athletic Conference, as well as memorabilia from Ohio Valley natives, who have gone on to professional sports careers, including Bill Mazeroski, Bobby Duglas, Chuck Howley, Bill Stewart, Phil Niekro and Joe Niekro, among others.

He was the Pirates ' primary second baseman from 1971 to 1973, but his playing time was reduced somewhat by military service commitments and by the presence on the team of veteran second baseman Bill Mazeroski and rising star Rennie Stennett.

Mazeroski, whose homer beat the Yankees in the final series game, will receive the Babe Ruth Award as the outstanding player in the 1960 world series.

The Pirates have had many ups and downs during their long history, most famously winning the 1960 World Series on a game winning homerun by Bill Mazeroski, the only time that Game 7 of the World Series has ever ended with a home run.

* October 13 – The Pittsburgh Pirates won the 1960 World Series of baseball in Game 7, on a home run hit by Bill Mazeroski for a 10 – 9 victory over the New York Yankees.

On a 2 – 2 count, Carter hit a three-run walk-off home run off Phillies pitcher Mitch Williams ( against whom he was 0 – 4 career ) to win the World Series, only the second time a Series has ended with a home run ( the other being in 1960, when Bill Mazeroski did it for the Pittsburgh Pirates against the New York Yankees ), and the only time the home run has been hit by a player whose team was trailing in the bottom of the 9th inning in a potential championship clinching game.

This was only the second Series concluded by such a home run ( the first was in the 1960 World Series on a Bill Mazeroski home run for the Pittsburgh Pirates ), and the first such occasion where a come-from-behind walk-off home run won a World Series.

In the 1960 World Series, Mazeroski won the title for Pittsburgh in Game 7 with a game-winning home run off New York Yankees pitcher Ralph Terry in the bottom of the ninth inning.

Terry is best remembered for giving up the home run to Bill Mazeroski that won the Pittsburgh Pirates the 1960 World Series.

The portion of the left field wall over which Bill Mazeroski hit his walk-off home run to end the 1960 World Series, between the scoreboard and the " 406 FT " sign, no longer stands at its original location.

This was the 50th anniversary of the Pirates ' 1960 World Series championship, which Mazeroski clinched with a Game 7 walk-off home run at Forbes Field.

* After a Budweiser TV commercial of the 1980s incorporated the original radio broadcast of the 1960 World Series Game 7, with announcer Chuck Thompson incorrectly naming Ditmar instead of Ralph Terry as the pitcher off whom Bill Mazeroski hit his legendary home run, Ditmar sued Anheuser-Busch for $ 500, 000, contending his reputation was tarnished.

He was on deck as a pinch hitter when Bill Mazeroski hit the ninth inning home run off Ralph Terry to win the 1960 Series at Forbes Field.

* Bill Mazeroski ( 1958, 1960, 1961, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967 )

In Game 7 of the 1960 World Series, Kubek was victimized by a bad-hop ground ball that struck him in the throat ; Kubek was badly injured and the batter, Bill Virdon, reached first base, enabling the Pittsburgh Pirates to rally in a game they eventually won 10 – 9 on a ninth-inning homer by Bill Mazeroski.

Hoak batted. 294 in 1959 and. 282 in 1960 on a Pirates team that won the World Series ; like the 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers, Pittsburgh defeated the Yankees in seven games, and the Pirates won the 1960 Series on Bill Mazeroski ’ s famous ninth-inning home run in Game Seven.

Bill Mazeroski, the World Series hero of the Pittsburgh Pirates, and Casey Stengel, the former manager of the Yankees.

* October 13-1960 World Series Game 7 at Forbes Field – Pittsburgh Pirates player Bill Mazeroski becomes the first person to end a World Series with a home run, and still the only player to do it in the decisive seventh game.

Bill Mazeroski hit the first home run to end a World Series and as of 2010, the only walk-off home run in World Series Game Seven history.

A 14-year-old fan named Andy Jerpe retrieved the ball outside the ground and had it signed by Mazeroski, but it was later lost when used in a game.

He spent most of his career turning double plays with Baseball Hall of Fame second baseman Bill Mazeroski, and the duo set a MLB record of 161 double plays in a season in 1966 that still stands ( when the Pirates set a National League record with 215 total double plays ).

# Bill Mazeroski: 161 ( Pittsburgh Pirates 1966 )

# Bill Mazeroski: 144 ( Pittsburgh Pirates 1961 )

# Bill Mazeroski: 138 ( Pittsburgh Pirates 1962 )

William Stanley Mazeroski ( born September 5, 1936 in Wheeling, West Virginia ), nicknamed " Maz ", is a former Major League Baseball player who spent his entire career ( 1956 – 72 ) with the Pittsburgh Pirates.

As a 17-year-old in 1954, Mazeroski signed with the Pittsburgh Pirates.

While his defensive ability typically overshadowed his contributions with a bat – Pirates broadcaster Bob Prince used to call him simply " The Glove " – Mazeroski had several fine offensive seasons.

In the fourth inning of Game 1, with Don Hoak on base, Mazeroski hit a shot off Jim Coates that went over the left field scoreboard and provided the edge in a 6 – 4 Pirates victory.

In 2009, the Pittsburgh Pirates announced that a statue of Mazeroski would be added outside PNC Park.

For the 50th anniversary, on October 13, 2010, a plaque honoring Mazeroski was dedicated and more than 1, 000 attended the broadcast, including Mazeroski and several other former Pirates.