The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #52438   Message #803475
Posted By: JJ
15-Oct-02 - 09:12 AM
Thread Name: BS: World Series
Subject: RE: BS: World Series
Jerry, if you saw Willie Mays play in the Polo Grounds during the Mets' first season in 1962, you saw him play for the San Francisco Giants. He hit .304 that year with 49 home runs.

He didn't need the walker until he came to the Mets in 1972 to finish out his career, and by then they had long played in Shea Stadium.

A section of the outfield wall of Forbes Field still stands in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh, and a plaque embedded in the sidewalk marks the spot over which Bill Mazeroski's home run passed.