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Pittsburgh Pirates Hall-of-Fame second baseman Bill Mazeroski stands near a model of a statue of himself that the team plans to erect near PNC Park in Pittsburgh, Friday, Jan. 29, 2010. The statue depicts Mazeroski as he rounds the bases after hitting the game-winning walk-off home run in...
View Photo »Pittsburgh Pirates Hall of Famer Bill Mazeroski sits in front of a replica of the left field wall at Forbes Field, at PNC Park before the Pirates' baseball game against the Chicago Cubs in Pittsburgh on Tuesday, June 30, 2009. Tuesday marked the 100th anniversary of the first game to be played...
View Photo »FILE -- In this Oct. 13, 1960 file photo, Pittsburgh Pirates fans rush onto the field to congratulate second baseman Bill Mazeroski as he rounds third base after hitting his World Series-winning home run against the New York Yankees in the bottom of the ninth inning at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh,...
View Photo »Hall of Fame member Bill Mazeroski, left, talks with former Pittsburgh Pirates manager Bill Virdon and former New York Yankee Moose Skowron before the baseball draft in Secaucus, N.J. , Tuesday, June 9, 2009.
View Photo »I don't think I hit the ground
I was just walking to the plate and thinking about hitting it hard somewhere, get on base
We thought we had a good team
I almost automatically packed the first year I was out of baseball just to come to Spring Training again ... I missed it that much. It has changed quite a bit, though. They used to just put us on the field to do a few calisthenics, jumping jacks, exercises and go practice. Now it's more coordinated. The...
I don't get tired of talking about it, I know that
That'll be there forever, and it will be exciting to take my grandchildren there ... In fact, I had another one yesterday -- another grandkid.
It hit me by surprise ... I never thought I'd get a statue up -- anywhere.
I had my number retired ... Then I went into the Hall of Fame. Then you get a street named after you. ... How can you get a better life than this? Now I get a statue. I don't know what to say after that.
I was just a piece on that team ... I hit one home run. I get a lot of the credit and don’t deserve it.
All I wanted to do was play major league baseball
In about four to five years, I'm looking forward to it
They were billing it, 'Bill Mazeroski and the '60 Bucs.' It's not about that. It's about the '60 Bucs ... I was just part of it. I got one lucky hit. I get too much credit. It took a 25-man team to win it, and I was just a very, very small part of it.
I just said, 'Holy cow, this can't be happening,' ... There have been so many great things happen to me, I don't know which one is the greatest.
I couldn't believe it when I first heard about it
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Pittsburgh Pirates Hall-of-Fame second baseman Bill Mazeroski stands near a model of a statue of himself that the team plans to erect near PNC Park in Pittsburgh, Friday, Jan. 29, 2010. The statue depicts Mazeroski as he rounds the bases after hitting the... View Photo »
Hall of Fame Second Baseman, Bill Mazeroski, hitting one of the greatest homeruns in baseball history.
Pittsburgh Pirates Hall of Famer Bill Mazeroski sits in front of a replica of the left field wall at Forbes Field, at PNC Park before the Pirates' baseball game against the Chicago Cubs in Pittsburgh on Tuesday, June 30, 2009. Tuesday marked the 100th anniversary... View Photo »
Juts some clips of the 1960 World Series between the New York Yankees and the Pittsburgh Pirates. Walk off in the end to win it by Bill Mazeroski in Game Seven.
FILE -- In this Oct. 13, 1960 file photo, Pittsburgh Pirates fans rush onto the field to congratulate second baseman Bill Mazeroski as he rounds third base after hitting his World Series-winning home run against the New York Yankees in the bottom of the... View Photo »
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