When Brady Peck walked toward Mervis Hall on Pitt’s campus Tuesday afternoon, he was taken aback by the hundreds of people gathered near the Forbes Field wall listening to a baseball game. A junior from Glen Rock, N.J., Peck asked…
Pittsburgh Pirates fans gathered near the Forbes Field wall on the Pitt campus on October 13 to continue their annual tradition of listening to the radio broadcast of Game 7 of the 1960 World Series. Hundreds of supporters convened to hear Bill Mazeroski's iconic walk-off home run against the New York Yankees, which originally secured the championship.
The 2026 gathering carried extra emotional weight following the recent passings of Mazeroski, ElRoy Face, and Bob Skinner earlier in the year. The tradition, originally started in 1985 by fan Saul Finkelstein, featured a floral wreath sent by Mazeroski's family alongside the venue's historic scoreboard display.
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