My dad was at this game. Never tired of him telling the story. RIP Dad

I still feel this is THE greatest upset in sports history. The Bucs were crushed in the 3 games they lost and barely won their 4 games. No wonder why Mickey Mantle cried.

That was no cheap home run either. Bobby Thomson's "Shot Heard 'Round The World" went about 310 feet into the stands at the Polo Grounds. THIS was a bomb over the 406 marker in left-center.

Forbes Field was a huge park to make home runs very hard to hit. The outfield brick wall still stands at the University of Pitt. A group gets together on 10-13 every year and re-enacts this home run.

I was born in Pittsburgh in 2006. My grandfather does fantasy camp for the Pittsburgh pirates (where you get to play with all of the old players) and my grandfather has taken me on the pirates field and we had a lot of fun. And I’ve had the joy to go out to lunch with THE Bill Mazeroski. And me and him talked for an hour and a half about that World Series win. That was the best day of my life so far.

On this day, all these 61 years gone by, the memory remains vivid … Bill Mazeroski’s home run has not faded. Thrill of a lifetime when I was a kid. Thank you, Maz.

Not just the greatest home run ever but perhaps the greatest single play in the history of American sports.

I was pulled out of school (3rd grade) along with my older brother that Wednesday by our mom - my dad had purchased scalper's tickets to Game 7, and we attended. I still have my ticket ($11 face value) and had it signed by both Bill Mazeroski and Harvey Haddix (winning pitcher of the game) years later. Mazeroski also signed my 1960 World Series program. In 1959 Vernon Law and Smokey Burgess rented homes on our street in Eastmont (Gilmore Drive), and we played with Veldon Law; in 1960 Vernon Law rented a place on the next street.

Plenty of Yankee haters in NY like me love this homer.

I was 13 years old. The school suspended classes while we listened to the game on a radio. When Maz hit the dinger the teachers were hugging and dacing in the hallway. It was the first time I saw teachers as real people.

Most underrated moment in sports history. Greatest homerun ever hit, so far.

I was 9 years old, and heard Hal Smith's home run on a transistor on the way home from school in the bottom of the 8th, thinking "they won". Then rushed home to find out that the Yankees tied it in the top of the ninth. I was there watching on TV when Maz hit that magical home run....a memory I'll never forget.

I saw the game live with my Italian grandfather who came here in 1903, found out about baseball and loved it. He taught me the game. Historically it was devastating. Up until that point the Yankees NEVER lost like that. Mantle, Ford and others were correct, Casey screwed up and didn't pitch Ford three times in that Series. As a seven year old I liked it that it went seven games - more games to watch! I'm a Mantle, Berra and Ford fan, so were they the better team? It doesn't matter. The Pirates won. Should Mazeroski, based on his stats, be in the Hall of Fame? Maybe based on this event, sure. What I always remember was Yogi in left field, running to the wall, and after in clears it, running casually back to the dugout. As I saw it many times as an adult, the body language seemed like, "Okay... let's get 'em next year." Why? Because they were in the WS almost every year from 1949 until 1964. Later on in my life Yogi's body language was like, "Okay, I'll take the loser share. The best thing is, nobody died." Maybe that's an Italian American thing. I still want to visit Pittsburgh and see a piece of that wall. God Bless Maz and all those players on those teams. Man... That was baseball!

Mazeroski tattooed that ball and he was still hauling ass out of the box. You could never be sure at Forbes Field considering it was a mighty 406 to the alley in left-center. To this day, this is still the greatest home run in the history of the sport.

Maybe one of the greatest upsets in sports history. Like the man said "They broke all the records, but we won The Game."

What’s really amazing is Bing Crosby was the only one that had this TV version for 50 years. Nobody saw this home run from this angle until 2010.

Imagine how many home runs Willie Stargell would have hit had he not played about a decade in Forbes Field. He would have had closer to 600 rather than 475.

I love it. Bottom of the ninth,tie score nine to nine and a homer hit by player # 9.

My family moved from the Pittsburgh area when I was 2, so my Dad was a Pirates fan. Mom would tell the story about when Bill Mazeroski hit this home run to win game 7 against the Yankees my Dad, who passed away in 1965, ran into the street in his underwear shouting, "The Pirated won! The Pirates won." I'm a Mets fan, but I have a hard time cheering against the Bucs when they are not playing the Mets.

For whatever it is worth, we were gathered by the radio in the hall of Saint Joseph School in Conway Springs, Kansas listening to this. Some were for the Yankees. some were for the Pirates. We all got to hear the walk off home run, and inside of an hour we were on the school bus headed home. Those were the days.