{"id":531,"date":"2026-05-28T02:29:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T02:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.classic-sculpture.com\/?p=531"},"modified":"2026-05-28T02:56:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T02:56:36","slug":"joe-starkey-she-sculpted-the-bill-mazeroski-statue-and-hardly-anybody-knows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.classic-sculpture.com\/?p=531","title":{"rendered":"Joe Starkey: She sculpted the Bill Mazeroski statue \u2014 and hardly anybody knows"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Sat, Feb 28, 2026 &#8211; TribLive<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every so often, Susan Wagner will visit PNC Park to see those powerful Pirates legends\u2019 statues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last weekend provided such an occasion, albeit a sad one. Bill Mazeroski had died. Dozens journeyed to his bronze likeness at the end of the cul-de-sac on Mazeroski Way, near the right-field entrance, in front of an actual piece of Forbes Field wall featuring the number \u201c406.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There, a 12-foot-tall Mazeroski forever rounds the bases, helmet in hand, after smashing the ball over that 406-foot mark to beat the mighty New York Yankees in Game 7 of the 1960 World Series&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n[ <a href=\"https:\/\/community.triblive.com\/news\/3991814\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/community.triblive.com\/news\/3991814\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read More&#8230;<\/a> ]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sat, Feb 28, 2026 &#8211; TribLive Every so often, Susan Wagner will visit PNC Park to see those powerful Pirates legends\u2019 statues. Last weekend provided such an occasion, albeit a sad one. Bill Mazeroski had died. Dozens journeyed to his&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classic-sculpture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classic-sculpture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classic-sculpture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classic-sculpture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classic-sculpture.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.classic-sculpture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":544,"href":"https:\/\/www.classic-sculpture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions\/544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classic-sculpture.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.classic-sculpture.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classic-sculpture.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.classic-sculpture.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}