SO TOUGH 1954 WORLD SERIES SCORECARD PROGRAM INDIANS @ GIANTS - MAYS "THE CATCH"

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VINTAGE ORIGINAL VERY RARE! OFFICIAL 1954 WORLD SERIES SCORECARD PROGRAM CLEVELAND INDIANS at NEW YORK GIANTS - WILLIE MAYS MAKES "THE CATCH" - RHODES HOMERS - GIANTS SWEEP IN UPSET!! Issued in very small numbers, like for press reporters to track games.
VINTAGE ORIGINAL VERY RARE!
OFFICIAL 1954 WORLD SERIES SCORECARD PROGRAM CLEVELAND INDIANS at NEW YORK GIANTS - WILLIE MAYS MAKES "THE CATCH" - RHODES HOMERS - GIANTS SWEEP IN UPSET
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DESCRIPTION:
This auction is for a wonderful, super rare and desirable 1954 WORLD SERIES SCORECARD - PROGRAM CLEVELAND INDIANS at NEW YORK GIANTS. Issued in very limited quantities, likely for Press Box use, this artifact likely bore witness to one of the most miraculous and exciting of all sports events. Program is clean and unscored for World Series Game at the POLO GROUNDS. In this Series, Game 1 featured "THE CATCH" by the great Willie Mays! This historic event, featured one of the greatest and most dramatic games of all-time, with Mays' miraculous, backwards, over-the-shoulder running catch of Vic Wertz 425 foot fly ball and Dusty Rhodes 10th inning pinch-hit walk-off 3-run homer. A dramatic and improbable end to an audacious Giants' season.
In the top of the first, Game 1, Vic Wertz gave the Indians a 2-0 lead with a two-run triple off the right-field wall.
The Giants tied the game with two in the third, and the score was still 2-2 when Wertz -- already 3-for-3 on the day -- batted in the top of the eighth, with runners on first and second and nobody out. Wertz drove the first offering from reliever Don Liddle -- summoned from the bullpen specifically to face Wertz -- on a high parabola to deep, deep center field. But center field went on forever in the Polo Grounds, and
Willie Mays made a spectacular over-the-shoulder catch which remains the most famous in World Series history
. Larry Doby did advance from second to third base on the play, but reliever Marv Grissom came in to retire the next two hitters, thus preserving the tie.
And in the bottom of the 10th, pinch-hitter Dusty Rhodes ended the game with a three-run homer, which just cleared the fence down the right-field line. Game one provided the momentum in the Giants rout of the Indians, the winningest team in American League history with 111 wins, in an amazing four straight games! This would be the Giants last Series Championship until 2010.
This is loaded with pictures, profiles, and statistics of players on the team. Please see my other auctions for similar and other related vintage items. Thanks for checking them out. THIS WOULD MAKE A GREAT ADDITION TO ANYONES COLLECTION (or WONDERFUL GIFT!), AND WOULD DISPLAY VERY NICELY.
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CONDITION (see picture for detail):
Grading is a subjective and inexact art, please see photos for details and decide yourself. I consider this EX to EX+. Complete, flat, clean, vibrant graphics and artwork. Inside very clean and glossy white. Small 1/4" top edge tear. Email me for more detailed description. SOLD AS IS, so please ask questions before bidding. Any defects visible in the pictures will be considered as described.
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