{"id":66953,"date":"2026-02-21T13:57:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T18:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/21\/bill-mazeroski-walk-off-hero-of-pirates-1960-world-series-win-dies-at-89\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T13:57:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T18:57:02","slug":"bill-mazeroski-walk-off-hero-of-pirates-1960-world-series-win-dies-at-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/21\/bill-mazeroski-walk-off-hero-of-pirates-1960-world-series-win-dies-at-89\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Mazeroski, walk-off hero of Pirates\u2019 1960 World Series win, dies at 89"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Infielder hit historic shot in 1960 World Series\u2019 Game 7<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Pirates pay tribute to \u2018one of a kind\u2019 Hall of Famer<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bill Mazeroski, the Hall of Fame second baseman who won eight Gold Glove awards for his steady work in the field and the hearts of countless Pittsburgh Pirates fans for his historic walk-off home run in Game 7 of the 1960 World Series, has died at the age of 89.<\/p>\n<p>Pirates owner Bob Nutting said \u201cMaz was one of a kind, a true Pirates legend &#8230; His name will always be tied to the biggest home run in baseball history and the 1960 World Series championship, but I will remember him most for the person he was: humble, gracious and proud to be a Pirate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/21\/bill-mazeroski-walk-off-hero-of-pirates-1960-world-series-win-dies-at-89\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infielder hit historic shot in 1960 World Series\u2019 Game 7 Pirates pay tribute to \u2018one of a kind\u2019 Hall of Famer Bill Mazeroski, the Hall of Fame second baseman who won eight Gold Glove awards for his steady work in the field and the hearts of countless Pittsburgh Pirates fans for his historic walk-off home &#8230; <a title=\"Bill Mazeroski, walk-off hero of Pirates\u2019 1960 World Series win, dies at 89\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/21\/bill-mazeroski-walk-off-hero-of-pirates-1960-world-series-win-dies-at-89\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Bill Mazeroski, walk-off hero of Pirates\u2019 1960 World Series win, dies at 89\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}