Jeremy Scott

It's kind of like starting up a lawnmower.

The man known locally and colloquially as Maz was a ten-time All-Star.

A native of Tiltonsville, Ohio, a little over an hour from Pittsburgh, Mazeroski never strayed too far from home, spending his entire 17-year career with the Pirates.

His walk-off homer in the bottom of the ninth during the final game of the 1960 World Series put the Pirates over the New York Yankees to win the championship.

A statue depicting his running of the base path after the hit sits outside the Pirates' stadium at PNC Park,

where fan Patty Petrisch was placing flowers shortly after his death was announced.

Mazeroski was 89.

For NPR News, I'm Jeremy Scott in Pittsburgh.

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