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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 ...
The 1954 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1954 season. The 51st edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff that matched the National League champion New York Giants against the American League champion Cleveland Indians .
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 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 ...
More than two decades later, Willie's career ended 10 miles from the Polo Grounds, where he delivered "The Catch" to help the Giants on their way to the 1954 World Series crown.
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 ...
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]
Willie Mays, the "Say Hey Kid," a ... his running basket catch in the 1954 World Series for the New York Giants against the Cleveland Indians. It is known simply as "The Catch." Mays called it ...