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wonder why ya never see the "basket catch" anymore

interchangesinterchanges Posts: 864 ✭
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Heck. Willie Mays did it. Did anyone else do it?

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  • yankeeno7yankeeno7 Posts: 9,251 ✭✭✭
    Clemente was big on doing the basket catch.
  • 72skywalker72skywalker Posts: 1,545 ✭✭✭
    I heard a story once when Mickey Mantle was a rookie he made a great basket catch. After the play Joe Dimaggio came over and said to him. "Great catch kid...don't ever do it again."
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  • PowderedH2OPowderedH2O Posts: 2,443 ✭✭
    Rickey Henderson did them all of the time. He'd make basket catches on routine fly balls. I don't ever recall him dropping one, but he certainly must have at some point.
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  • alnavmanalnavman Posts: 4,129 ✭✭✭
    I think that more players should go back to catching the ball with BOTH hands......the other night Toronto's centerfielder ran past a ball that he tried to catch one handed (the ball went off the tip of his glove) and an infielder plain out drop one that he tried to one hand.......
  • KeepItWarmKeepItWarm Posts: 579 ✭
    Larry Herndon from the 1984 Tigers loved to use the basket catch.
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