Mays, Series trophy visit site of Polo Grounds

So this is cool: The luminous Willie Mays is back in New York — at the site of the long-gone Polo Grounds, to be specific — and the Giants‘ 2014 World Series trophy is along for the trip. Said site is now PS 46 in Harlem …

Mays played at the Polo Grounds from his rookie season of 1951 through 1957, after which point the Giants relocated to San Francisco.

In those days, of course, ballplayers were typically part of the neighborhood tapestry …

Needless to say, the kids of PS 46 gave Mr. Mays a warm welcome …

Somewhat fittingly, it was this very day in 1979 that Mays was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. At that time, he was just the 14th player ever to go in on the first ballot.

And, hey, there’s never a bad time to relive Mays’s defining moment, which, of course, went down at the Polo Grounds …

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