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In an April game, Mays collided with Bobby Bonds while reaching his glove over the wall but made a catch to rob Bobby Tolan of a home run. [153] Mays picked up his 3,000th hit against the Montreal Expos on July 18. [154] [155] "I don't feel excitement about this now," he told reporters afterwards.
The Catch was a baseball play made by New York Giants center fielder Willie Mays on September 29, 1954, during Game 1 of the 1954 World Series at the Polo Grounds in Upper Manhattan, New York City. In the eighth inning , with the score tied 2–2, Cleveland Indians batter Vic Wertz hit a deep fly ball to center field that had the runners on ...
Willie Mays, the dynamic baseball Hall of Famer who shined in all facets of the game and made a dramatic catch in the 1954 World Series, passed away Tuesday at the age of 93, the San Francisco ...
Bobby Lee Bonds Sr. (March 15, 1946 – August 23, 2003) was an American right fielder in Major League Baseball from 1968 to 1981. He played for the San Francisco Giants , New York Yankees , California Angels , Chicago White Sox , Texas Rangers , Cleveland Indians , St. Louis Cardinals , and Chicago Cubs .
(Willie is his godfather–Bonds’s father, Bobby, played with Mays.) And the 91-year-old Mays is game for the task of explaining his career, his time in the Negro leagues, upward mobility in ...
The San Francisco Giants’ Barry Bonds is given a torch by his godfather Willie Mays after hitting his 660th home run, tying Mays’s record, at SBC Park in San Francisco on April 12, 2004.
[4] [5] He remained the sole member of the club for 34 years until Willie Mays achieved consecutive 30–30 seasons in 1956 and 1957. [5] [3] Bobby Bonds became the club's fourth member in 1969; he subsequently became the first player to achieve the mark in three, four, and five seasons.
The sports cover of The Sacramento Bee on Sunday, July 19, 1970, a day after Giants slugger Willie Mays made his 3,000th career hit. The Hall of Famer center fielder and a slugging icon died ...