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Greatest living players honored at All-Star Game

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Greatest living players honored at All-Star Game

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Pirates fan pays $635,500 for Mazeroski World Series jersey

An anonymous collector paid six figures for the jersey Bill Mazeroski wore when he hit a historic home run for Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1960 World Series.

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Pittsburgh honors Bill Mazeroski

The Pittsburgh Pirates have dedicated a statue celebrating Bill Mazeroski's famous 1960 World-Series-winning home run.

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MLB: Pittsburgh 12, N.Y. Yankees 5

Ryan Doumit and Jose Bautista both homered Tuesday to lift the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 12-5 victory over the New York Yankees.

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William Stanley Mazeroski (born September 5, 1936, in Wheeling, West Virginia), nicknamed "Maz", is a former Major League Baseball player who spent his entire career (1956–72) with the Pittsburgh Pirates. A key member of the Pirates' World Series-winning teams in 1960 and 1971, he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2001.

While one of the greatest defensive second basemen of all time, he is perhaps best known for winning the 1960 World Series with a dramatic game-ending home run. It remains the only home run to a win a World Series Game 7.

Mazeroski attended Warren Consolidated High School in Tiltonsville, Ohio, excelling in both baseball and basketball. He started on the varsity baseball team as a freshman.

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