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    Willie Mays, baseball’s Say Hey Kid, has died at 93

    LOS ANGELES — It came to be known simply as “The Catch,” and is, perhaps, the most recognized defensive play in baseball’s long and storied history, the play that made rising star Willie Mays famous. It was the first game of the 1954 World Series between the Cleveland Indians and New York Giants in New York’s old Polo Grounds. The Polo Grounds, the Giants’ home field, was an old stadium ...
    by Mike Kupper, Los Angeles Times Jun 18, 2024 7 minutes
    Willie Mays, right, is presented with his Beacon Award by Bill Greason, left, before the Gillette Civil Rights Game between the Cincinnati Reds and the St. Louis Cardinals at Great American Ball Park on May 15, 2010, in Cincinnati, Ohio.

    LOS ANGELES — It came to be known simply as “The Catch,” and is, perhaps, the most recognized defensive play in baseball’s long and storied history, the play that made rising star Willie Mays famous.

    It was the first game of the 1954 World Series between the Cleveland Indians and New York Giants in New York’s old Polo Grounds.

    The Polo Grounds, the Giants’ home field, was an old stadium reminiscent of a gigantic bathtub. The foul-line distances were short, 277 feet in left field, 258 in right, but the center-field fence, the far rim of the tub, was 455 feet from home plate.

    Cleveland’s Vic Wertz, a lefty, came to bat with runners on first and second in the eighth inning of a 2-2 tie, facing another lefty, Don Liddle, just in from the bullpen. Liddle, working a 2-1 count, threw a fourth-pitch fastball and Wertz tagged what would have been a three-run homer to center field anywhere else.

    Not in the Polo Grounds.

    Mays, playing a shallow center field, was off at the crack of the bat and, running hard with his back to the plate, caught up to the ball just

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