PITTSBURGH (AP) — For one shining day, Bill Mazeroski and the Pittsburgh Pirates were going like '60 again.
The ballpark was missing. So were the New York Yankees, not that they were needed. Mazeroski and nearly a dozen former Pirates teammates were there, reliving the vivid memories of the day that stands above all others in Pirates history.
Several thousand Pirates rooters gathered Wednesday at the spot where Forbes Field stood on Oct. 13, 1960, the day Mazeroski's historic homer in the ninth inning gave the underdog Pirates a 10-9 victory over the Yankees in Game 7 of the World Series.
That come-from-behind victory over the Mickey Mantle-led Yankees — the Pirates …
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