Willie Mays-The Catch

Wille Mays makes, i think, the best catch in baseball history

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[toolagit5]

yea, uhhh, overrated catch, jim edmonds makes catches equal or better to this at least once a season. "But he threw it back into the infield!! thats insane!!!!"

What else was he gonna do with it, stick it up his ass?

Anyone who has played or knows baseball well also knows that this catch is overrated and does not belong in the top 5 or 10 plays in a highlight reel where it is usually found.

[redsox4home]

while ill give u that edmonds catch might have been better consider this.....

the situation he was in.... the world series

also the park was 500 to straight away center and that ball was only 30 feet(give or take 10 feet) away from the fence and he had to run a good 100 feet to reach it

also, the time was an important factor. that catch was the firs of its kind, as was the tallent of mays

[willt65]

Wertz's ball was hit much further - Mays had a longer run to make the catch

[uricehe4]

Most overrated catch in sports history.

[tellthetruthg]

@toolagit5 One thing you don't see is how shallow he was playing. Thats what truly made the catch remarkable .

I saw Willie play at the stick for the first time in 64 he played so shallow he was a threat to throw a guy out at first on a grounder up the middle. The only player I ever saw until this day play that shallow was Paul Blair. Both had an amazing ability to know where the ball was going as soon as it left the bat. He was the one to say the catch was ok the throw kept runners from moving

[thevshi]

@puyaboy2712 I know this is kinda old, but my great uncle pitched that ball. ;)

[uricehe4]

@JohnnyMac496

Neither did Mays. "580 feet"? Good lord, how much weed have you been smoking. You need to subtract about a hundred feet off that before you even begin to be accurate. This is the most overrated catch ever.

[dataslul]

I'm a life-long White Sox fan, and I feel obligated to mention Dwayne Wise's catch in the top of the 9th inning that preserved a perfect game for Mark Buehrle while potentially saving a home run, but I even I think that Endy Chavez's NLCS game 7 play from 2006 beats them all. He had to range to his left, make a snow cone catch over the wall that saved a 2R homer, and then he doubled up Edmonds.

[heightssurfer]

@toolagit5 totally agreed thank god someone unerstands

[jets495]

i am sorry...willie was a great player but this catch is just over rated. i have been watching jim edmunds do this once a month for like 15 straight years. I may be prejudice but i think endy chavez's catch in game 7 of the 2006 nlcs was better than this and my have been the best ive ever seen. i honestly think jim edmunds might have 10 or 15 catches on his own better than this one...sorry willie

[elmontro16]

David Wright's barehanded, the best one ever!

[NiagaraFalls4424]

You jealous ignorant people and I expect most of you are racist are so full of hatred you make me sick to my stomach!!!!

[puyaboy2712]

willie mays is my great uncle he lives in california :)