"They won the laughers. The easy games went to the Yankees. But when it came down to the clutch you know who was there. This was our kind of game. It was the first time in the Series we had a chance to show them our finishing kick. That's the way we won it all year and today we put it on again."
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Hal Smith, as quoted in "Bucs Laugh As Yanks Eat Words" by Jack Hernon, in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Friday, October 14, 1960), p. 1
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