Oakland Coliseum paid homage Tuesday night to the late Willie Mays, who got the final hit of his historic career there to spark the New York Mets’ Game 2 comeback in the 1973 World Series aga…
OAKLAND — Players respectfully hustled out of the Oakland Coliseum dugouts, doffed their caps, and stoically joined a moment of silence Tuesday night for
Tuesday night, only a couple thousand fans were scattered across the Coliseum’s lower two levels as the A’s opened their seventh-to-last homestand in Oakland, ahead of their eventual move to Las Vegas and three-year layover in Sacramento. As Mays closed the final season of his career, the 24-time All-Star and 12-time Gold Glove winner came to Oakland for the 1973 World Series. He went 1-for-4 as the Mets dropped the opening game, 2-1. In Game 2, Mays entered as a ninth-inning pinch runner for Rusty Staub, and his go-ahead single ignited the Mets’ winning rally to even the series at 1-1; that game also marked the final time he put on his glove to patrol centerfield.
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