The York Daily Record tells about native son and major league slugger Vic Wertz's life and career upon his death in 1983. Here, Wertz holds a photo sequence of his most-noted mark in baseball history. He smashed the 450-foot fly ball that Willie Mays turned into "The Catch" in the 1954 World Series. Background posts: Babe Ruth, indeed, played in York in 1928 and York turned its eyes to Joe DiMaggio and Before the York Revs came the Hanover Raiders.
When York-born major leaguer Vic Wertz did not make the top 10 list of 20th-century York County sports heroes, one fan posed a revealing question:
"How could you leave off Vic Wertz?"
Vic Wertz, indeed, was one of York County's most accomplished professional athletes.
If his long smash had eluded Willie Mays in the 1954 World Series, he would have been on that York Sunday News' list.
But Mays' execution of "The Catch" relegated Vic Wertz to a footnote in national history... .
