APBA in the News: Fans relive the 60 World Series finale

imageI love seeing APBA in the news.  APBA fans Ted Knorr and Fred Walker made the local TV news in Wormleyburg, Pennsylvania when they replayed the famous Game 7 of the 1960 World Series between the Pirates and the Yankees.

That’s a risky move.  Hate to see the Bronx Bombers clobber the Bucs in an alternate reality.

Fortunately it worked out.  There were no late-inning heroics by Mazeroski but the  Pirates won again.  According to the Local21 article:

“There was no dramatic home run during this dice version; Knorr’s Pirates nearly no-hit Walker’s Yankees, winning 5-0”.

Way to go, Ted and Fred!

Thomas Nelshoppen

I am an IT consultant by day and an APBA media mogul by night. My passions are baseball (specifically Illini baseball), photography and of course, APBA. I have been fortunate to be part of the basic game Illowa APBA League since 1980 as well as the BBW Boys of Summer APBA League since 2014. I am slogging through a 1966 NL replay and hope to finish before I die.

6 Comments:

  1. I think you mean 1960. My first baseball memory.

  2. … And Bill Mazeroski does NOT make the Hall of Fame.

  3. I once played a World Series between the ’61 Yankees and the ’60 Pirates. The Series began in New York in this match up. They played to a seventh game, bottom of the 9th tie when Yogi Berra came to bat. Whack! It was a Berra walk-off homer. This time it was Yogi’s turn to provide the late-inning heroics.

  4. Why do people continue to use the radio broadcoast of the Maz homer? The announcer incorrectly states that Art Ditmar is the pitcher. Ditmar actually tried to bring a law suit against Miller Beer for using that in one of their commercials a while back. Ralph Terry was the pitcher that HOFer Bill Mazeroski homered off of.

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