"Well, a little while ago, when we mentioned that this one, in typical fashion, was going right to the wire, little did we know… Art Ditmar throws—here's a swing and a high fly ball going deep to left, this may do it!… Back to the wall goes Yogi Berra, it is…over the fence, home run, the Pirates win!… (long pause for crowd noise)… Ladies and gentlemen, Mazeroski has hit a one-nothing pitch over the left field fence at Forbes Field to win the 1960 World Series for the Pittsburgh Pirates by a score of ten-nothing!… Once again, that final score… The Pittsburgh Pirates, the 1960 world champions, defeat the New York Yankees. The Pirates ten, and the Yankees nine!"
— 1960 World Series

January 1, 1970

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Chuck Thompson's radio call of the final play, including Thompson's initial flub of the final score, preceded—and perhaps precipitated—by what appears to be some confusion about the identity of Mazeroski's home run victim Ralph Terry, but is in fact simply the beginning of Thompson's extremely inopportune digression to the subject of Yankee bullpen activity (as per Thompson's 10/13/2001 quote, below).