As it turns out, Pirates fans will have an opportunity to see their team in the World Series this year. Sure, it's a 50-year-old World Series, but Pittsburgh fans aren't exactly in a position to be picky here.
‘Best Game Ever’ Rediscovered, And The Pirates Are Involved
MLB Network will televise Game 7 of the 1960 World Series, a great game which has been seen by only a few people since it originally aired, in December. And the Pirates faithful, and baseball history buffs, have Bing Crosby’s superstition to thank for it.
Crosby was a part owner of the team, but couldn’t stand the suspense of the World Series. People like you and I would simply turn off the television, but only because we don’t have the resources to fly to France, which is what Crosby did. But ...
He knew he would want to watch the game later -- if his Pirates won -- so he hired a company to record Game 7 by kinescope, an early relative of the DVR, filming off a television monitor. The five-reel set, found in December in Crosby’s home, is the only known complete copy of the game, in which Pirates second baseman Bill Mazeroski hit a game-ending home run to beat the Yankees, 10-9.
(Crosby, for the record, spent the day listening to a radio broadcast in France and nearly setting a Parisian apartment on fire.)
With any luck, MLB Network will actually televise the game, instead of the weird highlights/DVD-commentary style ESPN adopted for “The Greatest Game Ever Played,” the WWL’s adaptation of the 1958 NFL Championship Game.
Pirates fans, though, will probably take an opportunity to see their team win a World Series no matter what form it takes.
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