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MLB: Hall of Fame’s new exhibit brings excitement towards World Series to fever-pitch
The Saratogian 22 Oct 2024
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y ... Running headlong toward the Polo Grounds’ high centerfield wall, Willie Mays pulled in a 460-foot smash off the bat of Vic Wertz to preserve a 2-2 tie in the eighth inning of Game 1 of the 1954 Fall Classic ... (PAUL POST PHOTO).
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Longtime Tigers' fan has never seen a season like this
Detroit news 09 Oct 2024
No, not Aurelio Lopez, who got the last seven outs in the 1984 World Series ... Bob Porterfield, the Senators’ pitcher, was throwing a one-hitter until the bottom of the ninth inning when the Tigers’ Vic Wertz hit a homer, winning the game 1-0 ... 29s.
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This date in baseball
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 30 Sep 2024
1954 Willie Mays made his famous over-the-shoulder catch of Vic Wertz's long drive to center field and pinch-hitter Dusty Rhodes homered off Bob Lemon in the 10th inning to lead the New York Giants to ...
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Chicago Tribune
29 Sep 2024
Today in Sports History: Babe Ruth sets MLB home run season record
1954 — Willie Mays makes his over-the-shoulder catch of Vic Wertz’ long drive to center field and pinch-hitter Dusty Rhodes homers off Bob Lemon in the 10th inning to lead the New York Giants to a 5-2 ...
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Today in Sports – Week Ahead, Sept. 27 – Oct. 3
Wtop 26 Sep 2024
1954 — Willie Mays makes his over-the-shoulder catch of Vic Wertz’ long drive to center field and pinch-hitter Dusty Rhodes homers off Bob Lemon in the 10th inning to lead the New York Giants to a 5-2 ...
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Springfield News-Sun
25 Aug 2024
McCoy: Is this the year Cleveland ends long World Series drought?
Will it stay that way? Will the Guardians win the American League Central? Will they even make the playoffs? ... The famous over-the-shoulder catch by Willie Mays on a 455-foot drive to center field by Vic Wertz in Game 1 set the tone ... He was only 29 ... 1 ... 2.
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The Sharon Herald
23 Aug 2024
Sports letter
Certain plays in American sports history are so memorable they take on a mystic name and require no explanation. Willie Mays’ over the shoulder catch and throw of Vic Wertz’ bomb to deep center field is simply, “The Catch,” along ....
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Let Drake Maye play, and we'll see how good these New England Patriots can be
The Providence Journal 09 Aug 2024
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Sharing special memories of Willie Mays
Monterey Herald 21 Jul 2024
With the score 2-2, Cleveland’s Vic Wertz, who had tripled in his club’s two runs in the first inning, came up with runners on first and second and one out.
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Jack Todd: The sport of soccer has never been better, or in worse shape
Toronto Sun 12 Jul 2024
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The golden era of baseball departs with Willie Mays
Indianapolis Recorder 27 Jun 2024
While historians point to his unbelievable over the shoulder catch in the 1954 World Series against the Cleveland Indians which robbed Vic Wertz of extra bases and prevented runs from scoring, Mays ...
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Willie Mays was link to bygone era
The Tennessee Tribune 27 Jun 2024
The death last week of the great Willie Mays also marked the end of one of the few remaining links to a bygone era ... He topped that off with an amazing catch in the 1954 World Series off Vic Wertz that is still shown on highlight reels today ... ....
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No one played baseball like Willie Mays
White Rock Lake Weekly 27 Jun 2024
By David Mullen ... The baseball world lost a legend. I lost a hero. Mays’ career began in the Negro Leagues. Photo courtesy of the ... In the 1954 World Series, Cleveland Indians 1B Vic Wertz hit a fly ball to the deepest part of the expansive Polo Grounds.
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Willie’s Joy Was Contagious
The American Spectator 24 Jun 2024
Already in 1954, he had nailed down the most famous fielding play in baseball history, turning his back to the plate and running down Vic Wertz’s screamer of a hit to deepest center field to preserve the Giants’ World Series sweep ... And he did ... .
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The enduring, joyful power of Willie Mays and the Catch
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 23 Jun 2024
Then he crashed into the green padded wall ... The play's transcendence is no easier a feat than Mays making the Catch itself in the 1954 World Series -- off the bat of Cleveland's Vic Wertz, in the deepest part of what was the gargantuan Polo Grounds ... .
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