They make the pilgrimage here every year to commemorate and experience Bill Mazeroski slaying the mighty Yankees with the only Game 7 walk-off homer in World Series history, the "only celebration of a single sporting event in the world," Herb Soltman tells the gathered.
They began the pilgrimage in 1993, eight years after Saul Finkelstein first sat here with his transistor radio, alone, annually reliving that day by himself until author and radio host Jim O'Brien publicized his habit, sounding a siren call for like-minded nostalgic fans.
Mazeroski himself has appeared twice, on the 40th anniversary and on the 50th, when the crowd swelled to 1,600.