Win Baseball’s Greatest Games: 1960 World Series Game 7 on DVD!

On October 13, 1960 the Pittsburgh Pirates completed one of the most unlikely upsets in World Series® history over the heavily favored New York Yankees, thanks to an epic 9th inning shot that turned the game into one of the most storied in Major League Baseball history. This December, Major League Baseball Productions and A&E Home Entertainment will unveil this long-lost classic marked by heroics, lead changes and a stunning home run from “Maz” – and only recently discovered in Bing Crosby’s wine cellar-turned-vault in Hillsborough, California. Airing on the MLB Network in a December 15 special hosted by Bob Costas, BASEBALL’S GREATEST GAMES: THE 1960 WORLD SERIES, GAME 7 will also be available to sports fans everywhere in a special 2-Disc DVD set, priced to add to every baseball fan’s memorabilia collection for $29.95srp.

The 1960 World Series® was a classic sports Cinderella story, pitting the upstart Pirates against the Yankees dynasty, which had already captured 18 championship titles. The star-studded lineups included Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, and Roger Maris on the New York side with Roberto Clemente, Dick Groat, and Vern Law on the Pittsburgh roster. After six games, the heavily favored Bombers had compiled impressive Fall Classic numbers: a .340 team batting average, 78 hits, and 46 runs to the Pirates 17. Yet the opportunistic Pirates had the series even at three wins apiece. In the tense Game 7, the Pirates stormed to an early 4-0 lead, but waves of scoring from both clubs had the game knotted at nine in the bottom of the ninth. Then, 24-year old second baseman Bill Mazeroski — known more for his glove than his bat — approached the plate and launched the first World Series-ending home run in baseball history, setting off a delirious celebration that reverberated from Forbes Field across Pittsburgh and through the annals of all-time sports achievements.

The five-reel, 16mm Game 7 kinescope was discovered last December in Crosby’s home and it is the only known copy of the game, considered one of the greatest ever played. Crosby, a one-time part owner of the Pirates hired a company to make a kinescope copy of the Game 7 (filmed the TV broadcast as videotaped was not yet created!) while he vacationed in Paris, too nervous to watch the series stateside. Called by the Yankees’ legendary Mel Allen and the Pirates Bob Prince, it is the complete NBC broadcast, and one which was thought to be lost forever. And, now, direct from the Major League Baseball archives, this rare and extraordinary television broadcast has been restored for this remarkable DVD presentation. Disc 1 features the complete, original 1960 World Series Game 7, with alternative radio play-by-play. Disc 2 contains the 1960 World Series Film, 1960 Pirates highlights, newsreels, and player interviews.