Mays: More Than The Catch (2024)

Kelly Hertz

BY KELLY HERTZkelly.hertz@yankton.net
Jun 27, 2024
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They were gods, all of them, in the baseball universe when I was a kid. They were distant ghosts like Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Joe DiMaggio, and they were then-contemporary stars like Mickey Mantle, Hank Aaron and Harmon Killebrew. It was all the same to me.

And that group included the marvelous Willie Mays.

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