Stennett’s 7-for-7 game is well-known Major League history. The Pirates were led by veteran manager Danny Murtaugh and 31-year-old slugger Willie Stargell’s 48 home runs and 125 runs batted in, and by 36-year-old Roberto Clemente, who batted .341 and recorded 11 outfield assists. But Stargell did not play on a pennant winner until 1971, when he led the National League in home runs, with 48, and drove in 125 runs. Willie Stargell – 1973 – 470 feet. He pitched 2 2/3 scoreless innings to earn the win after Willie Stargell’s two-run home run put the Pirates in the lead. Wilver Dornel Stargell was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1988. He hit two-run homers in the first and third innings to stake the Yankees to a 4-0 lead, added two walks and another run scored. The home run, coincidentally, credited Stargell with the winning runs in both Game 7's of the two post-season meetings between the Pirates and the Orioles (1971 and 1979). On August 5, 1969, Stargell hit a home run off of Dodgers’ right-hander Alan Foster that left the stadium and measured 507 feet, the longest home run ever hit at Chavez Ravine. The second home run Stargell hit out of the Dodger Stadium, and the shorter of the two, occurred May 8, 1973. Previous Willie Stargell hits the longest home run in the history of Veterans Stadium in the second inning off starter Jim Bunning during a 14-4 Pirates rout of Philadelphia. He had another big day against Atlanta on the 9th, collecting three hits, including a home run, while driving in four runs and scoring three runs. Omar Moreno and Tim Foli started the game with singles. The Pirates got a quick, 3-0 lead against Spaceman Bill Lee. Game 7 of the World Series. The Pirates won, 2-1, in Game 7 in 1971 and 4-1 in Game 7 of 1979. With a career riddled with injuries and nagging pain, Willie Stargell retired in 1982 after posting 2,232 hits, 1,195 runs, 1,540 RBI, 475 home runs and a career .282 batting average. Yes. This series has featured both home run binges and pitching duels, ... (1925), Ripper Collins (1934), Willie Stargell (1979) and George Brett (1985). Stargell scored the Pirates' second run in both games, on a double by Jose Pagan in 1971 and a home run in 1979. Born: March 6, 1940 in Earlsboro, Oklahoma, USA Died: April 9, 2001 (61 years old) Total Cards: 2,474 (1988) Tweet His 506-foot bomb off Alan Foster on Aug. 5, 1969, sailed over the right-field pavilion. Led by Willie Stargell, the Pirates celebrated to their theme song, "We Are Family" by Sister Sledge. That World Series victory made the Pirates the only franchise in baseball history to twice recover from a three-games-to-one deficit to win a World Series (in 1925 against the Washington Senators ; in 1979 against the Baltimore Orioles ). The two exceptions were the opening of Municipal Stadium in Cleveland on July 31, 1932, and the ... Willie Stargell of the Pirates hit … The June 14,1969 program was from “Maz Night”. 1 - Willie Stargell crushed one home run on June 25, 1971, it hit a seat in Section 601, and it was the longest home run ever hit at Veterans Stadium (half credit to Jim Bunning). 4.) They now lead by two games in the NL East. 1963 Willie Stargell mashes his first big league home run. Pittsburgh won 4-1, completing a comeback from a three games to one deficit. The Bucs took both games in their two-game series in Montreal. 7/8/66 game 1 AND game 2, 4/17/67, 7/3/67, 9/2/67, 5/30/68 game 2, 5/31/68, 6/14/69, 7/4/69, 7/29/69. Stargell capped off the year by hitting a dramatic home run in Baltimore during the late innings of a close Game Seven to seal a Pirates championship. ä Stargell was the first player to hit a home run out of Dodger Stadium, and he did it twice. The Orioles, thanks to a Rich Dauer home run in the third inning, seemed finally to have come to life after two miserably flat games in which they were thumped, 7-1 and 4-0. Led by Willie Stargell, the Pirates celebrated to their theme song, "We Are Family" by Sister Sledge. Led by Willie Stargell, the Pirates celebrated to their theme song, “We Are Family” by Sister Sledge. Willie homered in EVERY one of these games!! Stargell hit 32 of his 475 career homers at Wrigley Field, his most anywhere outside of Pittsburgh. He hit a second home run out of Dodger Stadium on May 8, 1973, against Andy Messersmith, that measured 470 feet. A two-run home run by Willie Stargell in the 11th inning gave the Pirates a 5-3 win over the Expos. Stargell was a Cub-killer throughout his career, but this home run cemented that legacy. And then there’s this game from Rizzo, an outfielder who played only 246 games for the Pirates from 1938-40 and was overshadowed by the Hall of Famers who hit in front of him on his day in the sun: Paul Waner and Arky Vaughan. Willie (or Wilver, as Vin Scully called him) also hit seven postseason homers to go along with an .871 OPS -- taking home two World Series rings. This was the 31st opening of a new major league park in the last 60 years and on all but two occasions the first game was featured by a home run. The Bucs were only 4 ½ games out of first place, but the 38,052 fans who came to Three Rivers Stadium that day were not concerned with any pennant race; they were there to pay tribute to their beloved icon. In Game 7 that year, Stargell’s two-run homer in the sixth inning — his last of three in the series — erased a 1-0 Orioles lead on the way to a 4-1 victory. Stargell is the greatest slugger in franchise history. Stargell had the most impactful game of those, with a sixth-inning home run that gave the Pirates the lead for good over the Orioles. The home run was his third of the series and, coincidentally, credited Stargell with the winning runs in both Game 7s of the two postseason meetings between the Pirates and the Orioles ( 1971 and 1979). The Pirates named September 6, 1982 Willie Stargell Day – it also happened to be Labor Day – and chose to conduct the retirement ceremony prior to their game against the New York Mets. It was about Willie Stargell, ... with three home runs and seven RBIs against the Baltimore Orioles in the World Series and won Game 7 with a sixth-inning home run. One of our talks stands out. Willie Stargell Wilver Dornell Stargell. Willie Stargell Every game played with complete stats, links to box scores and automated row summing for 1982 So, go ahead, blast some "We Are Family" and dream of some alternate reality where you were cool enough to be in this picture with the former dinger-crushing MVP and Muhammad Ali. The spot in Section 601 where the ball landed will be eventually commemorated with a black “S” inscribed within a yellow star inside a white circle, later to be painted black when the Hall of Famer dies in 2001. There is an insert from that game included in this listing. He pitched 2 2/3 scoreless innings to earn the win after Willie Stargell's two-run home run put the Pirates in the lead. 2. Babe Ruth had “only” 1,356. Only two other players would hit a home run into the 600 level, the upper deck, at the Vet (before it closed), Butch Huskey (Section 638) & Ruben Rivera (Section 638). Pittsburgh’s pitching staff was led by Dock Ellis, who won 19 games, and Steve Blass, who was 15-8 with a 2.85 ERA. Jackson spent parts of six seasons with the Pirates, going 8-5 with a 2.96 ERA in 72 relief appearances for the 1979 champions. In July, Stargell hit .305 with eight homers and 19 RBIs in 24 games. Stargell also had three homers, including the decisive shot in Game 7 in Baltimore, as the Pirates rallied from a 3-1 deficit to wrest the World Series title from the favored Orioles. Stargell capped off the year by hitting a dramatic home run in Baltimore during the late innings of a close Game 7 to seal a Pirates' championship. He would homer in the next two games, then finish the month with another three-game home run streak. Stargell also had three homers, including the decisive shot in Game 7 in Baltimore, as the Pirates rallied from a 3-1 deficit to wrest the World Series title from the favored Orioles. 1964 Willie Mays homers off Phil Ortega, the only hit Mays ever managed off Ortega in 19 plate appearances. 1963 Stan Musial sets a record by hitting his 1,357th extra base hit.