Willie Mays, baseball’s flamboyant Say Hey Kid, believed by some to have been the best player in the game’s long history, has died.
It came to be known simply as “The Catch,” and is, perhaps, the most recognized defensive play in baseball’s long and storied history, the play that made rising star Willie Mays famous. It was the first game of the 1954 World Series between the Cleveland Indians and New York Giants in New York’s old Polo Grounds. The Polo Grounds, the Giants’ home field, was an old stadium reminiscent of a gigantic bathtub.
— his father was named for former President William Howard Taft — was born May 6, 1931, in Westfield, Ala., near Birmingham. His parents divorced before he was of school age and he went to live with an aunt, but his father, a steel mill worker who had been an outfielder for the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro National League, looked in on him regularly and made sure young Willie was receiving a proper baseball education.
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