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The Catch still amazes

By Joe Morgan
Special to ESPN.com

Wednesday, September 29, 2004

More from Joe Morgan -- Guillen suspension is wrong solution It's hard to believe that it's been 50 years since a young center fielder named Willie Mays made The Catch. I didn't see The Catch on television -- I was only 11 years old -- but I've seen the replay of it many times. In Game 1 of the 1954 World Series, Vic Wertz of the favored Cleveland Indians hit a drive deep to center field at the Polo Grounds, where center stretched 483 feet, and the 23-year-old Mays ran it down at the warn ...

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