The Most Dramatic Home Run in World Series History

History.com ^ | 5/17/23 | Christopher Klein

[DallasBiff]

The World Series has produced many moments of incredible drama, but only in 1960 has the Fall Classic ended with a Game 7 home run. That World Series was among the wildest in baseball history as the New York Yankees outscored the Pittsburgh Pirates, 55-27, and second baseman Bobby Richardson won the Most Valuable Player award. It came in a losing cause, though, as Pittsburgh second baseman Bill Mazeroski authored an incredible conclusion to an unforgettable series

[Chipper]

Pucket went 0-2 with 3 walks in Game 7. Puckett hit his HR in the 11th in Game 6.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/MIN/MIN199110270.shtml

[Made In The USA]

World Series + Home run? Immediately think of Reggie Jackson. I was a little kid watching it on TV, and it still one of my favorite moments in sports.

Not that anyone cares, but the mighty Buffalo Bills winning a playoff game against the Raiders 51 - 3, sending the Bills to the Superbowl was even better. That was in 1991, and the roar of 80,000 fans is still reverberating off Lake Erie nearly 33 years later.

[xp38]

I was at game 6 in 1993 in the upper deck on the first base side. Ticket was $30. After I strolled down to field level and saw some Phillies fans. All I could say to them was well you don’t see that every day and they nodded. Being in the stadium when your team wins a championship is the mountaintop in spectator sports. I’ve been to that summit. It’s been anticlimactic ever since.

[Mark17]

I don’t remember if I watched any of the other games in that series, but I did watch game 7. I was a USAF E-7. My son is a USAF O-3. He was born in the North Bay, and graduated from Sacramento State, went to USAF OTS. Now he is a USAF pilot. 👍

[dfwgator]

Kirk Gibson in Game One of the 1988 series.

[Mark17]

Actually, it was Gene Larkin, who got the game winning hit, in a 1-0 win, in game 7, of the 91 series.
My mom was a big time Twins and Vikings fan, as am I. She was at the Hump dome, for game 7, of the 87 series, with St Louis. She said the fan noise, was ear splitting. By the way, I am also waiting to go “HOME” too. 👍

[Jim Noble]

The Dodgers have been in Los Angeles longer than they were in Brooklyn.

O tempora, o mores!

[rxh4n1]

Got Mazeroski, only an above average second baseman at best, into the Hall of Fame. He’s first on my HoF purge list.

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

My dad was at that game. Lots of folks claim they were there but my dad had the program and scorecard to prove it. Unfortunately I lost the program and scorecard somewhere in one of my moves - would probably be worth a few bucks now.

And to those who say that Maz was an average player and not worthy of the HOF, Bill James called him (arguably) the greatest defensive player of all time, at any position. The guy was absolute magic on the double play - "Old No Touch".

[Tymesup]

Baseball Reference has Mazeroski tied for 23rd on the career defensive WAR leaders. Everybody else ahead of him is a shortstop, catcher, center fielder or third baseman. Ozzie Smith number 1.