Mazeroski Day - October 13, 2020

The section of the Forbes Field Wall, still standing

Mazeroski Day in Pittsburgh is October 13.  On October 13, 1960, Bill Mazeroski of the Pittsburgh Pirates, hit a walk off home run to secure the World Series for the Pirates in the bottom of the 9th inning of the seventh game against the NY Yankees.  

Listen carefully and you'll hear the 

radio broadcast of the home run

Annually, Pirates fans meet at the section of the Forbes Field wall that still stands across the street from Posvar Hall at the University of Pittsburgh.  At the annual gathering, there are folks who bring a recording of the radio broadcast of the original game and play the entire game starting the recording exactly when the game was first broadcast, ensuring that the recording of the big home run occurs at exactly the time it did on October 13, 1960.  

Forbes Field Home Plate in Posvar Hall

Forbes Field was so important to Pittsburghers that when they built the new hall on the grounds of the former baseball field, they mounted the actual home plate in the same spot it occupied at Forbes Field.  Now that spot is in the main hallway of Posvar Hall for all to see, including a part-time MBA student forty years ago, yours truly.

The last of the Forbes Field Wall outside Posvar Hall

Mazeroski Field, a community ballfield beside 
the standing section of the Forbes Field Wall

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My MBA school is the University of Pittsburgh.  

Since the building for the business school wasn't completed until my final term, my classes were in the Cathedral of Learning at the University of Pittsburgh.  The pic is taken from the south, in front of the Frick Art Museum, hence the fancy fountain