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Pirates Win, 10-9, Capturing Series on Homer in Ninth

The Pirates today brought Pittsburgh its first world series baseball championship in thirty-five years when Bill Mazeroski slammed a ninth-inning home run high over the left-field wall of historic Forbes field.

With that shot, Danny Murtaugh\'s astounding Bucs brought down Casey Stengel\'s Yankees, 10-9, in a titanic struggle that gave the National League champions the series, four games to three.

Minutes later a crowd of 36,683 touched off a celebration that tonight is sweeping through the city like a vast conflagration. For with this stunning victory, which also required a five-run Pirate eighth, the dauntless Bucs avenged the four-straight rout inflicted by another Yankee team in 1927.

Mazeroski\'s home run capped an improbable victory by the Pirates, who were outscored in the series, 55-27. The Pirates were shout out twice in their three losses, losing by scores of 16-3, 10-0, 12-0, while their biggest margin of victory in their four wins was three runs.

Mazeroski, who was better known as an outstanding fielder, also hit a key home run in Game 1, and batted .320 with five RBI in the Series. His series-winning homer is perhaps the best known home run in World Series history.