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Even as some Americans were watching the plane carrying the volatile Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev exit out of U.S. airspace — see yesterday’s Deseret News archives — their attention was focused on a World Series Game 7.
The vaunted New York Yankees prepared to take on the Pittsburgh Pirates in Game 7 on Oct. 13, 1960.
On that mid-October night in 1960, the Pirates won the World Series, defeating the New York Yankees in Game 7, 10-9, on a home run hit by Bill Mazeroski.
In one of the wildest postseason games in history, the Pittsburgh Pirates trailed the New York Yankees 7-4 heading into the bottom of the eighth inning, when the Pirates scored five runs to take a 9-7 lead into the final inning.
However, the Yankees scored two in the top of the ninth to tie the game at 9.
Mazeroski then led off the bottom of the ninth with his walk-off shot to win the World Series for the Pirates. In doing so, he became the first player in baseball history to end a World Series with a walk-off home run.