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usonian

(14,600 posts) Tue Jun 25, 2024, 12:53 AM Jun 2024

Heliot Ramos makes a Willie Mays style catch in center field

Last edited Tue Jun 25, 2024, 02:10 AM - Edit history (1)

On the night honoring Willie at home. The entire team wore 24, and the catch was perfect for the night.

https://www.mlb.com/video/heliot-ramos-running-catch?partnerId=web_video-playback-page_video-share

It’s not on YT yet. Seen at mlb.com. Turn the little speaker icon “on”

Edited to say Mays style.
Of course, a rookie isn’t going to equal the greatest, but I think it honored him just to come anywhere near. ⚾️

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Heliot Ramos makes a Willie Mays style catch in center field (Original Post) usonian Jun 2024 OP

not quite lapfog_1 Jun 2024 #1

No one will ever make a Willie Mays catch...period. the parks aren't big enough. JT45242 Jun 2024 #2

I mostly agree, but Willie Mays caught the ball at about 420 feet Brother Buzz Jun 2024 #3

lapfog_1

(30,232 posts)

1. not quite

Reply to usonian (Original post)

Tue Jun 25, 2024, 01:30 AM

Jun 2024

it was a good catch, but his eyes never lost the ball.

now watch what Mays actually did and why it was so amazing.

JT45242

(2,993 posts)

2. No one will ever make a Willie Mays catch...period. the parks aren't big enough.

Reply to usonian (Original post)

Tue Jun 25, 2024, 02:04 AM

Jun 2024

The polo grounds catch was made near the 483 foot mark. In every ball park, even the thin air of Coors Field, that ball is a home run. In most parks that ball is in the second deck or higher of the stadium.

He ran farther than any center fielder could run today, caught the ball, and threw to prevent the Indians from scoring.

Members of the Indians said they knew they had no chance if Mays could get to that and throw it back before they could score. They said the catch broke their belief they could win.

No one, ever, no one will make that catch and the recency bias of sports center and top plays has done Willie Mays crushing of the Cleveland Indians hearts a great injustice.

Brother Buzz

(38,026 posts)

3. I mostly agree, but Willie Mays caught the ball at about 420 feet

Reply to JT45242 (Reply #2)

Tue Jun 25, 2024, 10:26 AM

Jun 2024

Willie Mays was able to make "The Catch" at the Polo Grounds because he played first at Rickwood Field, and Rickwood Field is HUGE (centerfield marked at 470 feet).

Willie Mays making the famous catch at the Polo Grounds was just another day at the office.

One nano second to process the hit, turn and run like the wind, then look up and find the ball exactly where you figured it would be.

That 483 mark at the Polo Grounds was that wicked 'Inside-the-park home run alley'. A 420 foot hit in the Polo Grounds would have been considered a stand-up-triple with any other centerfielder.

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