Willie Mays, one of the greatest baseball players ... signature play -- and one of the most iconic plays in baseball history -- was "The Catch." In Game 1 of the 1954 World Series, Mays took ...

“The Say Hey Kid” Willie Howard Mays Jr. (1931–2024 ... Now simply referred to in baseball lore as “The Catch,” the play is the best remembered of the many defensive efforts that earned the speedy ...

Willie Mays, arguably the greatest baseball player of all time ... Known simply as “The Catch,” the play is considered by acclimation to be one of the greatest defensive plays in the history ...

For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps." --Quoted in "Willie Mays" by Arnold Hano ... "When you catch a ball high, head high or higher and have to ...

“I fell in love with baseball because of Willie, plain and simple ... confident his bat would catch up to his glove. He knew that Mays had hit .477 in 35 games for Triple-A Minneapolis ...

Stillman College baseball will be participating in the first ever Willie Mays Open at Rickwood Field next month.

Baseball lost much of its soul and a whole bunch of its color this year. The game said good-bye to Willie Mays, Rickey Henderson ... New York to the most famous catch in history.