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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 ...
From 1955 through 1958, Mays led Willie Mays' All-Stars, a team composed of such stars as Irvin, Thompson, Aaron, Frank Robinson, Junior Gilliam, Brooks Lawrence, Sam Jones, and Joe Black. The team traveled around the southern United States the first two years, attaining crowds of about 5,000 in 1955 but drawing less than 1,000 in 1956, partly ...
“The Willie Mays catch will always be its own thing,” said Posnanski. “Name any other player with 600 home runs whose most famous play is a catch,” said Stark.
The voice on the audio track of the famous Willie Mays catch in Game 1 of the 1954 Series at the Polo Grounds belongs to Brickhouse, who was doing the Series along with the New York Giants' regular broadcaster, Russ Hodges. (Brickhouse had also called Giants games locally in 1946.)
The catch became the defining play of Mays’ career and one of the most famous plays in baseball history. New York won the game 5-2 in 10 innings and would go on to sweep the Indians to capture ...
Willie Mays, the iconic baseball legend whose remarkable career spanned 22 seasons, has died, the San Francisco Giants announced Tuesday. ... Mays made "The Catch" — an over-the-shoulder snag 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 did both, and he did them at the highest level. Mays, ... Mays’ over-the-shoulder catch more than 500 feet from home plate in the 1954 World Series, robbing Vic Wertz of a potential ...