Willie Mays playing shortstop at Shea Stadium

willie mays shortstop

willie mays shortstop

Ok I head-faked you a little.  It is at Shea and it is Willie Mays…but he’s on the visitors.  Thanks to Mike for sending this in.

How did he get to shortstop? In the top of the eighth inning, Willie McCovey pinch hit for starting shortstop, Gil Garrido. After McCovey struck out to end the inning, Jim Davenport went in to play shortstop. In the top of the tenth inning, Matty Alou pinch hit for third baseman, Jim Ray Hart. Dark wanted to keep Matty Alou in the game, so he moved Davenport to third to take Hart’s spot and he moved Willie to short so Matty Alou could play center. The Giants did have another infielder on the bench but it seems obvious at this point that Dark did not want to lose the offense of Alou, so Willie played short.

via The Flagrant Fan: The Day Willie Mays Played Shortstop.

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