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Birmingham, Alabama — Before Willie Mays electrified fans with the New York Giants and made “The Catch” in the 1954 World Series, he patrolled centerfield at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama, as a teenager in 1948.“Willie was something else,” Rev. William Greason said of Mays, who died Tuesday at the age of 93. “He had a gift that God gave him.“Greason, now almost 100 years old, was Mays’ teammate on the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro Leagues.“The camaraderie that we had on that team,…
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