To: Gamecock
468 feet from home plate. (Now do you understand what was so stupefying about Willie Mays's famous catch in the 1954 World Series?)
and the throw that followed the catch was almost as stupefying
22 posted on
01/27/2015 2:24:03 PM PST by
stylin19a
(obama = Eddie Mush)
To: stylin19a
Bingo!
Required reading: Arnold Hano, A Day in the Bleachers, about that World Series game and the Mays play.
24 posted on
01/27/2015 2:44:39 PM PST by
BluesDuke
(BluesDuke'll be back on the same corner in front of the cigar store . . .)
To: stylin19a
Thank you!
The HOF has “The Catch” on a video loop, and I had to explain to my kids that “The Throw” afterward was almost as important. The Catch doesn’t do you much good if you allow the runners to advance, but Mays was able to fire a strike back to the infield to keep them from scoring.
34 posted on
01/28/2015 3:58:14 PM PST by
MikeD
(We live in a world where babies are like velveteen rabbits that only become real if they are loved.)
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