He corralled it in his glove, turned upward as if to cup water ... And almost immediately, an excited broadcaster exclaimed, “Say Hey, Willie Mays kid!” That was nine days before Mays died ...

230/.305/.270 with zero home runs. Despite that, MLB renamed the World Series MVP Award the Willie Mays World Series MVP Award in 2017. The Catch is that memorable.

Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle, were clearly two of the best to ever play baseball, but Willie Mays might have topped them ...

“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 ...

Quoted in "Willie Mays" by Arnold Hano "Don't get me wrong ... That's real fun." "When you catch a ball high, head high or higher and have to make a throw afterwards, what do you do?

New York Jets running back Breece Hall dissects two Los Angeles Rams defenders after the catch to convert on third-and-11 for 15 yards. Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow's 38th TD pass of ...

Willie Mays started and ended his career in the ... confident his bat would catch up to his glove. He knew that Mays had hit .477 in 35 games for Triple-A Minneapolis, then the top affiliate ...

The baseball world has saluted the achievements of Willie ... Mays was twice declared the league's Most Valuable Player (MVP) and won the World Series with the New York Giants in 1954. His famous ...

After Ted Williams passed away, someone asked me if Willie Mays was ... making a basket catch, stealing a base or standing and swinging in the batter's box. Mays always looked like he was enjoying ...

Willie Mays, arguably the greatest baseball player of all time, died Tuesday at the age of 93. Mays had called Atherton home for the last four decades of his life. Nicknamed the “Say Hey Kid ...