With Willie Mays' death, an epic era of NYC baseball continues to slip away

In the 1950s, a New York team won the World Series eight times and finished runner-up six times. But westward expansion beckoned and before the 1958 season, the Dodgers and Giants left New York for California, ending an era that is now fading fast.

In a two-month span, Carl Erskine and Willie Mays have died, leaving 12 players still living from the Brooklyn Dodgers or New York Giants. The era of 1950s New York baseball will soon be only a story told in the media.

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