"They won. That's what counts. It's something we still think about once in a while. And it happened 32 years ago. There's no getting around it. They played good baseball when they had to, and when the chips were down. Hal Smith hit the home run and, of course, Mazeroski hit the home run. When they had to perform, they did. So you can't take anything away from them. They had a fine ball club. Gino Cimoli said it best. He summed up the whole Series when he said, "The Yankees set all the records and we won the Series." That says it right in a nutshell. We did everything right except win the World Series. And that's what I mean. When the chips were down, they came through. They didn't let that 16-to-1 setback bother them. Most clubs would have folded up and said, "Let's just get this thing over with and go fishing." But, no, they didn't. They hung real tough every day. You can't beat that, and we didn't."
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Whitey Ford, as quoted in Maz and the '60 Bucs: When Pittsburgh and Its Pirates Went All the Way (1993) by Jim O'Brien, p. 126
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