![]() He was right because in 1958 the Dodgers were in Los Angeles and the Giants in San Francisco. ![]() I remember my father telling us at the end of the game to remember what we had just seen because next season neither teams will be playing in New York. I recently found out that Willie at 92 is the oldest living inductee of the Hall of Fame. It was at this game that I got to see my baseball hero Giant outfielder Willie Mays who I think was the greatest ballplayer of all time. I saw my first big league game in 1957 when my father took my brothers and I to see the then New York Giants and the then Brooklyn Dodgers play a day game at the Polo Grounds in New York. I suppose with some coaching I could have developed but that never happened so a potential Hall of Fame career on the mound was nipped in the bud. In other words, I had a pretty good fastball, but I didn’t always know where it was going. At one point in “Small Fry” baseball they tried me out as a pitcher because of my strong arm but unfortunately, I was like Nolan Ryan early in his career when he was with the Mets.
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