Mazeroski

Mazeroski is the only player to hit a game-winning home run in the bottom of the ninth inning of the seventh game of a World Series

USATODAY.com - Pirates thrilled with Mazeroski's selection 2001

Four of his 1960 Pirates teammates tugged away a protective cover Sunday along a street known as Mazeroski Way to unveil a 14-foot, 2,000-pound statue depicting the only player to end a World Series Game 7 with a home run.

SFGate: Top News Stories 2010

Just remember, if you happen to be celebrating the 50th anniversary of "Today in Sports," that if it weren't for Hal Smith's 3-run 8th inning homer, Bill Mazeroski wouldn't be in the Hall of Fame today.

Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories Len Berman 2010

Today In Sports: One of the 2 or 3 most famous homers of all time, Pittsburgh's Bill Mazeroski wins the World Series, with his 9th inning blast in game 7 against the Yankees.

Len Berman: Top 5 Sports Stories Len Berman 2010

Charleston doubled to right and came home when Gibson, his muscles limbered from tossing Diz like a rag doll, tagged a tape-measure home run, this one soaring over the same left-field wall that Pirate Bill Mazeroski would make famous twenty-six years later.

Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert Timothy M. Gay 2010

Charleston doubled to right and came home when Gibson, his muscles limbered from tossing Diz like a rag doll, tagged a tape-measure home run, this one soaring over the same left-field wall that Pirate Bill Mazeroski would make famous twenty-six years later.

Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert Timothy M. Gay 2010

Charleston doubled to right and came home when Gibson, his muscles limbered from tossing Diz like a rag doll, tagged a tape-measure home run, this one soaring over the same left-field wall that Pirate Bill Mazeroski would make famous twenty-six years later.

Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert Timothy M. Gay 2010

That 1960 World Series is the only one which ever ended with a Game 7 walk-off homerun (by Bill Mazeroski), and the only one in which the MVP played for the losing team (Bobby Richardson).

Sexism and traffic stops, a follow-on frankwu 2008

Red Sox should trade him immediately for aiding and abetting but I wonder how he feels being "guarded" by Joe Morgan and Bill Mazeroski and Ryne Sandberg.

A futile pretense at live-blogging the All-Star game 2008

The Veterans Committee format has been changed twice since 2001, when charges of cronyism followed the election of Bill Mazeroski.

Joe Gordon gets nod from Hall of Fame Veterans panel 2008