Word: mazeroski
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Will we see the World Series here, Daddy?" a young boy with a gritty face, tousled hair and a Pirates hat (an eight-year-old Bill Mazeroski, maybe) asked his father in the center-field bleachers. "You'll see the World Series on TV," the man replied matter-of-factly. "They're not playing it here this year...
...niche when such a running comparison was going on. It was Lynn who made the fabulous catches that saved games, and catches are the images that stay frozen longest--the enduring moments of baseball lore. The mind can catch them better, better than any hit short of a Mazeroski or Thompson job. And Rice was expected to do well--he won the Triple Crown in the International League last year. It's only been one season, but there's always a Lou Gehrig, even when he's a different and incomparable star in the same sky that holds Babe Ruth...
...that makes baseball the game it is, love it or leave it. The fabulous "if only's which pepper baseball lore have seen another swell their ranks. Aparicio's trip will go down with Richardson's catch of McCovey's drive in 1962, with Ralph Terry's Meatball to Mazeroski in 1960, even with the Bobby Thompson shot heard round the world...
...Pittsburgh. Consider the 1960 Pirates. How many super-stars were on that team? How many great names will hit the plaques at Cooperstown? Maybe one. In case you've forgotten, here is the list of memorables: catchers. Smokey Burgess and Hal Smith; first base, Dick Stuart: second base, Bill Mazeroski, shortstop, Dick Groat; third base, Don Hoak; and the fabulous, famous outfield--Bill Virdon, Bob "Hound dog" Skinner and Roberto Clemente. And on the in-famous mound staff, such immortal 20-game winners as Vernon "Deacon" Law, Bob Friend. Elroy Face and Harvey Haddix...
...Bucs became unchallengeable heroes, the odds are good for the '71 Pirates. Just as I fought with my friends to get Topps cards of Mazeroski, Groat and Hoak, so too bubble gum may benefit in Dravosburg or Vandergriff from Cash, Hernandez, and Pagan...