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70th Anniversary of "The Catch" [View all]
I didn't see this in Baseball or anywhere else, so I thought I'd start a discussion.
On September 29, 1954,Willie Mays of the New York Giants made a running, over-the-shoulder catch of a ball hit by Vic Wirtz of the Cleveland Indians in Game 1 of the 1954 World Series; "The Catch" would become one of the most famous plays in baseball history.
It was such a big deal that all these years later it was the highlight in our midwestern newspaper's Today in History section. I was 12+ years away from being born, but I'm sure someone here saw it happen live, if not in person.
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