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The Catch was a baseball play made by New York Giants center fielder Willie Mays on September 29, 1954, during Game 1 of the 1954 World Series at the Polo Grounds in Upper Manhattan, New York City. In the eighth inning , with the score tied 2–2, Cleveland Indians batter Vic Wertz hit a deep fly ball to center field that had the runners on ...
1954 World Series at Baseball-Reference.com; The 1954 Post-Season Games (box scores and play-by-play) at Retrosheet; History of the World Series - 1954 at The Sporting News. Archived from the original in May 2006. Baseball's Best: 1954 World Series ; Kodak Presents – Baseball's 25 Greatest Moments, Willie Mays' Catch
The Say Hey Kid’s superb grab of a drive hit by Cleveland’s Vic Wertz in Game 1 of the 1954 World Series against the favored Indians will always be one of his finest moments, also a key in the New York Giants’ 4-0 sweep to win the championship. “It wasn’t no lucky catch,” Mays emphatically noted years later. Not at all.
In the 1954 World Series, Wertz hit a long fly ball Willie Mays caught, known as "The Catch". It went over 400 feet (120 m) to dead center of the Polo Grounds in New York, [3] and a sportswriter said, "It would have been a home run in any other park, including Yellowstone." [4]
In the first game of the 1954 World Series, against a heavily favored Cleveland team, he caught a fly ball an estimated 425 feet from home plate, with his back to the plate, and then wheeled and ...
Willie Mays, the dynamic baseball Hall of Famer who shined in all facets of the game and made a dramatic catch in the 1954 World Series, passed away Tuesday at the age of 93, the San Francisco ...
Mays’ over-the-shoulder catch more than 500 feet from home plate in the 1954 World Series, robbing Vic Wertz of a potential game-winning hit, is considered the greatest catch in the history of ...
The Giants won the NL pennant and the 1954 World Series, sweeping the Cleveland Indians in four games. [66] The 1954 series is perhaps best remembered for "The Catch", an over-the-shoulder running grab by Mays of a long drive off the bat of Vic Wertz about 425 feet (130 m) from home plate at the Polo Grounds during the eighth inning of Game 1 ...