It can’t be lost that this house, this home, is holding on now. Holding on in obscurity about a long centerfield throw from Rickwood Field (at least for Willie), where a teenaged Mays made his ...

It’s a home Mays, who died Tuesday at 93 ... “There’s a saying going around that Willie Mays could throw a ball from the back of the house and run around and catch it.

Mays called it, "The Throw." Game 1 was tied at 2-2 ... in 1972 and the address of their home stadium, AT&T Ballpark, is 24 Willie Mays Plaza. His bronze statue in front of the main entrance ...

Long after "The Catch" and his 660 home runs ... field and throw like Mays did during his career spent mostly with the Giants in New York and San Francisco. "Willie could do everything from ...

Willie Mays, the baseball superstar who played for ... and in scoring barreled over the Expos’ catcher. The harmless throw home caromed into the Montreal dugout. Martinez had a triple.

Willie Mays, whose prodigious power ... he could hit for a high batting average, blast home runs, gallop around the bases, ...

Mays could throw. "[Mays] scooped the ball ... Hy Peskin/Sports Illustrated/Getty Images 1954 Actual winner: Willie Mays Mays hit .345/.411/.667 with 41 home runs in leading the Giants to the ...

Baseball legend Willie ... But Mays sprinted to the edge of the Polo Grounds - known for its unusually deep center field - and made an over-the-shoulder catch. He robbed Wertz of a home run ...

The first time I met Willie Mays and ... I enjoy thinking that Mays’s huge, powerful hands help explain a lot, like the prodigious distance of his longest home runs, several over 500 feet ...

Counting the home run, Mr. Mays, a right-handed batter ... “When they hit it, I catch it. When they throw it, I hit it. Very simple.” Willie Mays, a perennial all-star center fielder for ...

345 and hitting 41 home runs to go along with 110 RBIs. Mays won his other NL MVP in 1965. "I fell in love with baseball because of Willie ... catch and quick relay throw prevented both runners ...

Willie Mays could run, hit, field and throw and did all of it with the flair ... the Hall of Famer smashed 660 career home runs (sixth best all-time), tallied 3,283 hits (12th) and won four ...