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You can find more information@sportshistorynetwork.com dot it's October 13, and on this day in 1960, it was the most dramatic end in World Series history.

Ball one too high now to Mazeroski, and the Yankees have tied the game in the top of the 9th inning.

Well, a little while ago when we mentioned that this one, in typical fashion was going right to the wire, little did we know art Ditbar throws.

Here's a swing and a high fly ball going deep to left.

This may do it.

Back to the wall goals bera it is over the fence.

Home run.

The Pirates win.

That was Chuck Thompson with the call for NBC radio of Bill Mazirowski's World Series winning home run.

It's the only time a World Series has ended with a game winning home run in a game seven.

The only other time a World Series has ended with a walk off home run was in 1993, but Joe Carter's game winner came in game six.

The 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates were making their first World Series appearance in 33 years.

Their previous appearance, back in 1927, ended quickly in a four game sweep by the New York Yankees in 1960.

The Yankees were making their 10th appearance in twelve years, and so the sixties series was predicted to end pretty quickly, too.

The Bronx Bombers lived up to their name in this edition, outscoring the Pirates by an average of eleven runs a game in their three wins.

Pittsburgh's three wins were by an average of two runs in the decisive game seven, it was a see saw affair.

The Pirates took the early lead up 40 after two at Forbes Field.

The Yankees fought back to take a five four lead in the top of the 6th and added two more in the 8th.

Pittsburgh turned a bad hop that drilled Yankee shortstop Tony Kubek in the throat into a five run rally in the bottom of the 8th to take the lead once again, and Kubek was stretchered off the field and taken to the hospital.

The Yankees battled back to Tyett in the 9th, setting up Mazeroski's game winner off Ralph Terry.

Despite being outscored 55 to 27 and out hit 91 60 in the seven games, Pittsburgh found a way to win it all, Pittsburgh skipper Danny Murtaugh said afterwards.

So far as I know, they haven't changed the rules of the World Series.

The trophy still goes to the team that wins four games and not the club with the most records.

It was Pittsburgh's third series championship, but the first since 1925, Yankee legend Mickey Mannell said years later that he cried real tears for the only time in his career after losing in this series.

On this day in 1967, the red, white and blue ball of the American Basketball association was introduced to the world in the debut game of the new league.

It was the Anaheim Amigos and the Oakland Oaks taking a revved up playground style of basketball to the hardwood.

On this night, the league that introduced the three point shot had a 32nd shot clock instead of 24, though with the run and gun styles of most of the teams, it was rarely needed and brought the dunk contest to its all star game was ready to shake up the basketball world and rattle the cage of the moribund NBA to showcase the new high flying league.

The Oaks and Amigos combined for 263 points with Oakland winning 134 129.

Andy Anderson led the way with 33 points while Les Salvage poured in four three pointers.

Now that doesnt seem like a lot of threes, and by todays standards it is nothing.

But the three point shot was new and a lot of players were just a little bit hesitant to shoot one.

But not selvage.

He grew more and more comfortable with the long range bomb as the season went on and he ended up leading the league in threes, made and attempted.

One of his teammates said that Selvage seemed afraid to step inside the three point arc for fear hed die or something.

Selvage's game was a bit one dimensional, though he didn't pass very well and he didn't play much defense.

One of his teammates, Bob Bass, said that when Salvage was hot, he was unlike anything he had ever seen.

Now, about that ball, it's the thing everybody remembers about the ABA, right?

Well, the idea for the red, white and blue ball came from the original big man of the NBA and the original commissioner of the ABA, George Mikan.

Mikan hated the brown ball that the NBA played with.

Lighting in arenas was a bit dimmer in those days, and Mikan always said that whenever he watched a game from the stands or on tv, the ball blended into the background.

So he came up with the idea of the multicolored ball because the league was the American Basketball association, so red, white and blue seemed to be the right choices for the colors of the ball.

Patriotic marketing people loved it.

Just about everybody else hated it.

At first.

Players complained it was too heavy, too light, too slick.

But it was really because coaches and players thought people would make fun of them for playing with a differently colored ball.

And there was some of that.

But shooters soon started to love firing from long range and watching the rotation of the ball in the air and especially that last little spin in the net when your shot was pure.

Coaches began to embrace it because you could teach shooting with it because of the rotation.

And kids, they loved the basketball.

ABA executive Mike Storen talked about a test he once did with about 100 kids, and he told them, you can have any ball you want, but you only get one.

Now, do you want the Brown NBA ball or the red, white and blue AbA ball?

He said every kid, without exception, chose the ABA ball.

On this day in the wild college football season that was 2007, the top ranked LSU Tigers went to 17th ranked Kentucky and lost in a thriller.

The Tigers had a 13 point lead with a little more than a minute to play in the third quarter, but Kentucky rallied to tie it up with four and a half to play in the game.

LSU actually had a chance to win it as time expired, but Cole Davids 57 Yarder was just a little bit wide left.

So to overtime they went.

Both teams scored touchdowns and extra points in the first, kicked matching field goals in the second.

Kentuckys Andre Woodson threw a six yard touchdown strike to put the Wildcats up six in the third ot, but they failed on their mandatory two point conversion, leaving the door open for LSU.

But first they had to get to the end zone to score the six.

One of the things that I talked about last week was the zero seven matchup between LSU and Florida, and the Tigers had gambled on fourth down a lot in that game and they'd been successful.

Well, on fourth and two and triple ot of this game, they handed it off to Charles Scott and he was stuffed by Braxton Kelly.

And I guess the Wildcats did a lot of film study of that LSU Florida game to make sure they stopped this fourth and two attempt.

Kentucky pulled off the upset of number one LSU.

Kentucky fans called it the greatest win in wildcat football history, and students and others stormed the field.

And for their postgame celebration, the SEC fined Kentucky $50,000.

Party poopers.

And on this day in 2001, it was the flip by Derek Jeterhead.

So to jog the memory a little bit, this is game three of the American League Divisional Series between New York and Oakland at the now empty Oakland Coliseum.

The A's had won the first two games and had a shot to close out the series at home with a win in the best of five series.

In the 7th inning, the Yankees clung to a one nothing lead.

There were two outs and Jeremy Giambi was on first.

Mike Musina was on the mound for the Yankees, facing Terrence long here's Tom Brennaman calling the action for Fox Sports that night.

You're not going to run.

You're not going to hit and run.

You got to wait for a gapper.

That is there down the right field line.

Gambia on his way to third and they're going to wave him around.

The throne misses a cut off man.

Shove it in a plate, out of the plate, Derek Jeter with one of the most unbelievable plays you will ever see.

By a short.

Both cut off men were missed.

Jeter coming down the line, fielded with his bare hand, a shovel to Posada and Giambi is out.

What an unbelievable play by Jeter.

So what makes this play so special was actually routine for Jeter.

He talked years later about how they worked on this same scenario in spring training.

Shane Spencer's throw from the right field corner overshot two cutoff men.

But it's not that Jeter had some kind of 6th sense that the ball was going to be overthrown.

It was actually his job to act as a third cutoff man in case this very thing happened.

Now, the fluidity in which he caught the ball and then flipped it to catcher Jorge Posada was a thing of beauty.

And he was also fortunate that Giambi was not the fleetest of foot.

As Jeter said in a retelling of this play, if Spencer hits one of the other cutoff men, Giambi is meat by 10ft.

If Jeter doesnt catch it and shovel it, then that ball takes another two lazy bounces and giambies drinking Gatorade in the dugout in a tie game.

Instead, it stayed one nothing for the duration.

New York won games four and five as well to knock out the a's, and then they beat the Seattle Mariners in the ALCS to go back to the World Series in a quest for a four peat, but came up a little bit short in the World Series, losing to the Arizona Diamondbacks in seven games.

But of course they might not have been there at all if it hadnt been for Jeter's game preserving flip on this day in sports history and time now for today's non sports fun fact.

Black and green olives are the same.

Black olives are just kept on the tree a little bit longer to ripen a bit more.

That's all I've got for you today.

Have a great rest of your day and I'll talk to you tomorrow.

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