Bill Mazeroski’s hit was so massive, it was bound to overshadow everything else he accomplished in his career. But that 1960 trip around the bases remains one of the biggest and most memorable blasts in baseball history,

February 21 - Bill Mazeroski, a defensive-minded second baseman whose home run ended the 1960 World Seres, died at age 89.

In Game 7 of the 1960 World Series, Mazeroski led off the bottom of the ninth inning with a solo shot that lifted the Pirates over the Yankees.