Willie Mays clobbered Brooklyn Dodger pitching 1954-1957. Then the Giants and Dodgers moved to California.

Willie Mays

Position: Centerfielder

Bats: Right  •  Throws: Right

5-10, 170lb (178cm, 77kg)

Born: May 6, 1931 (Age: 90-201d) in Westfield, AL us

Data derived from https://www.baseball-reference.com/ and https://stathead.com/  Link with the data after it was pulled from the sources and enhanced.

Willie Mays team splits sorted by OPS:

	I	Split	G	GS	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS
1954		Brooklyn Dodgers	22	22	94	82	22	31	3	1	10	27	0	1	10	7	.378	.436	.805	1.241
1954		St. Louis Cardinals	22	22	95	87	21	35	4	2	9	17	1	0	5	8	.402	.432	.805	1.236
1954		WP >= .500	43	43	182	153	35	53	6	1	16	41	0	1	25	14	.346	.434	.712	1.146
1954		Philadelphia Phillies	22	22	90	79	16	28	5	5	4	20	2	0	10	4	.354	.422	.696	1.118
1954		Pittsburgh Pirates	22	22	95	87	22	31	8	3	4	13	1	1	8	8	.356	.411	.655	1.066
1954		WP < .500	108	108	459	412	84	142	27	12	25	69	8	4	42	41	.345	.403	.650	1.054
1954		Milwaukee Braves	21	21	88	71	13	22	3	0	6	14	0	0	15	7	.310	.432	.606	1.037
1954		Chicago Cubs	20	20	86	80	17	25	8	2	5	11	4	2	6	13	.313	.360	.650	1.010
1954		Cincinnati Redlegs	22	22	93	79	8	23	2	0	3	8	0	1	13	8	.291	.387	.430	.817
	I	Split	G	GS	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS
1955		Pittsburgh Pirates	22	22	97	85	22	37	6	6	10	27	5	0	12	4	.435	.505	1.000	1.505
1955		Brooklyn Dodgers	22	22	101	89	24	34	3	1	12	29	3	1	12	12	.382	.455	.843	1.298
1955		WP >= .500	65	65	284	247	54	82	6	6	23	58	7	2	34	30	.332	.412	.684	1.096
1955		WP < .500	87	87	386	333	68	103	12	7	28	69	17	2	45	30	.309	.391	.640	1.031
1955		Milwaukee Braves	21	21	90	77	13	25	1	3	5	16	1	1	11	10	.325	.400	.610	1.010
1955		St. Louis Cardinals	22	22	99	81	16	29	3	0	4	9	8	2	16	5	.358	.465	.543	1.008
1955		Philadelphia Phillies	22	22	93	81	17	23	2	2	6	13	3	0	11	8	.284	.376	.580	.957
1955		Cincinnati Redlegs	21	21	93	84	17	23	1	1	8	18	0	0	5	7	.274	.323	.595	.918
1955		Chicago Cubs	22	22	97	83	13	14	2	0	6	15	4	0	12	14	.169	.268	.410	.678
	I	Split	G	GS	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS
1956		Pittsburgh Pirates	22	22	96	83	13	30	5	1	6	19	8	1	12	4	.361	.438	.663	1.100
1956		Milwaukee Braves	22	21	89	80	14	28	3	2	5	9	2	3	9	10	.350	.416	.625	1.041
1956		Brooklyn Dodgers	21	21	89	79	13	21	2	0	10	17	3	1	10	12	.266	.348	.671	1.019
1956		Chicago Cubs	22	21	97	85	22	26	4	4	4	14	7	0	11	10	.306	.392	.588	.980
1956		WP < .500	88	87	382	337	69	105	22	5	19	52	29	2	41	35	.312	.385	.576	.960
1956		St. Louis Cardinals	22	22	94	86	17	26	6	0	5	9	8	1	8	10	.302	.362	.547	.908
1956		WP >= .500	64	63	269	241	32	66	5	3	17	32	11	7	28	30	.274	.349	.531	.881
1956		Philadelphia Phillies	22	22	95	83	17	23	7	0	4	10	6	0	10	11	.277	.347	.506	.853
1956		Cincinnati Redlegs	21	21	91	82	5	17	0	1	2	6	6	3	9	8	.207	.286	.305	.591
	I	Split	G	GS	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS
1957		Cincinnati Redlegs	22	22	104	84	21	31	4	3	8	23	9	2	18	3	.369	.481	.774	1.255
1957		Brooklyn Dodgers	22	22	98	84	16	36	3	4	5	12	4	4	13	6	.429	.500	.738	1.238
1957		Chicago Cubs	22	22	98	89	22	31	7	4	6	20	7	5	8	12	.348	.398	.719	1.117
1957		WP >= .500	108	106	475	405	79	141	16	16	25	66	27	13	64	41	.348	.434	.652	1.086
1957		Milwaukee Braves	22	22	99	82	14	27	3	2	6	13	3	4	15	14	.329	.424	.634	1.058
1957		St. Louis Cardinals	20	20	89	81	14	25	4	5	3	8	4	1	8	12	.309	.371	.593	.963
1957		WP < .500	44	43	194	180	33	54	10	4	10	31	11	6	13	21	.300	.345	.567	.912
1957		Philadelphia Phillies	22	20	85	74	14	22	2	2	3	10	7	2	10	6	.297	.376	.500	.876
1957		Pittsburgh Pirates	22	21	96	91	11	23	3	0	4	11	4	1	5	9	.253	.292	.418	.709

Brooklyn Dodgers are number 1, 2, 3, 2.

Willie Mays park splits sorted by OPS:

	I	Split	G	GS	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS
1954		BRO-Ebbets Fld	11	11	45	41	10	16	2	0	6	16	0	1	3	4	.390	.422	.878	1.300
1954		PIT-Forbes Fld	11	11	47	43	11	18	4	2	3	10	1	1	4	5	.419	.468	.814	1.282
1954		CHC-Wrigley Fld	9	9	41	39	8	15	4	2	3	6	1	1	2	5	.385	.415	.821	1.235
1954		STL-Busch Stad 1	11	11	50	44	8	16	2	2	4	12	0	0	3	6	.364	.400	.773	1.173
1954		PHA-ConnieMackSt	12	12	50	42	8	15	3	3	2	9	1	0	7	3	.357	.440	.714	1.154
1954		NYG-Polo Grounds	76	76	314	279	67	96	16	4	20	48	5	2	33	19	.344	.414	.645	1.059
1954		CIN-Crosley Fld	11	11	49	42	4	13	1	0	2	5	0	0	6	8	.310	.388	.476	.864
1954		MIL-County Stad	10	10	45	35	3	6	1	0	1	4	0	0	9	5	.171	.333	.286	.619
	I	Split	G	GS	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS
1955		BRO-Ebbets Fld	11	11	51	46	12	20	0	0	9	21	1	1	5	4	.435	.490	1.022	1.512
1955		PIT-Forbes Fld	9	9	44	35	11	12	2	1	5	10	3	0	9	4	.343	.477	.886	1.363
1955		STL-Busch Stad 1	11	11	51	40	9	16	2	0	2	5	5	2	10	2	.400	.510	.600	1.110
1955		MIL-County Stad	10	10	43	36	8	10	0	2	4	11	0	1	5	7	.278	.349	.722	1.071
1955		NYG-Polo Grounds	79	79	338	298	59	98	13	8	22	55	11	0	37	23	.329	.405	.648	1.053
1955		PHI-ConnieMackSt	11	11	49	43	8	13	0	2	2	6	1	0	5	7	.302	.388	.535	.923
1955		CIN-Crosley Fld	10	10	45	41	8	10	0	0	3	8	0	0	2	4	.244	.289	.463	.752
1955		CHC-Wrigley Fld	11	11	49	41	7	6	1	0	4	11	3	0	6	9	.146	.245	.463	.708
	I	Split	G	GS	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS
1956		RooseveltStd	1	1	4	3	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	.333	.500	1.333	1.833
1956		BRO-Ebbets Fld	10	10	45	40	8	12	1	0	6	11	2	1	5	6	.300	.378	.775	1.153
1956		MIL-County Stad	11	11	47	41	10	16	1	0	3	5	1	1	6	7	.390	.468	.634	1.102
1956		CHC-Wrigley Fld	11	10	51	44	9	15	3	2	2	9	3	0	6	9	.341	.431	.636	1.068
1956		PIT-Forbes Fld	11	11	50	42	4	15	2	1	1	9	5	0	7	3	.357	.440	.524	.964
1956		NYG-Polo Grounds	75	74	310	284	49	85	13	5	20	37	20	4	26	23	.299	.358	.592	.950
1956		PHI-ConnieMackSt	11	11	49	39	9	10	5	0	1	5	2	0	8	7	.256	.367	.462	.829
1956		STL-Busch Stad 1	11	11	47	42	8	10	2	0	1	2	6	1	5	7	.238	.319	.357	.676
1956		CIN-Crosley Fld	11	11	48	43	3	7	0	0	1	5	1	2	5	3	.163	.250	.233	.483
	I	Split	G	GS	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS
1957		BRO-Ebbets Fld	10	10	46	38	11	18	1	2	4	8	2	3	7	4	.474	.543	.921	1.465
1957		CIN-Crosley Fld	11	11	54	47	12	17	4	2	7	16	7	2	6	1	.362	.444	.979	1.423
1957		CHC-Wrigley Fld	11	11	48	44	11	15	4	2	2	6	5	1	4	7	.341	.396	.659	1.055
1957		NYG-Polo Grounds	75	74	328	279	53	95	8	10	17	54	11	9	44	27	.341	.424	.624	1.047
1957		STL-Busch Stad 1	11	11	51	49	9	18	3	3	1	4	4	1	2	8	.367	.392	.612	1.004
1957		MIL-County Stad	11	11	49	43	6	12	2	1	3	4	3	2	6	9	.279	.367	.581	.949
1957		PHI-ConnieMackSt	11	9	40	33	5	8	2	0	0	1	4	0	7	2	.242	.375	.303	.678
1957		PIT-Forbes Fld	11	11	48	47	5	11	2	0	1	4	2	0	1	4	.234	.250	.340	.590
1957		RooseveltStd	1	1	5	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.200	.200	.200	.400

Ebbets Field in Brooklyn 1, 1, 1, 1 for full time parks.

Home runs hit in Roosevelt Stadium 1956-1957. Monday, April 21, 2014

Eddie Mathews led the visitors with two homers in two games in Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City, NJ...

The Brooklyn Dodgers moved to Los Angeles after the 1957 season but they tested the west by playing 15 games in Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City, NJ during their final two seasons in Brooklyn.

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Willie Mays home runs rank against the Brooklyn Dodgers: 1, 1, 1, 4:

	I	Split	G	GS	PA	AB	HR	AB/HR	PA	AB	HR	AB/HR	% tot	AB/HR dif	AB/HR %dif	Ebbets	%
1954		Brooklyn Dodgers	22	22	94	82	10	8.20	641	565	41	13.78	24.39%	-5.58	-40.50%	6	60%
1954		St. Louis Cardinals	22	22	95	87	9	9.67	641	565	41	13.78	21.95%	-4.11	-29.85%
1954		Milwaukee Braves	21	21	88	71	6	11.83	641	565	41	13.78	14.63%	-1.95	-14.13%
1954		Chicago Cubs	20	20	86	80	5	16.00	641	565	41	13.78	12.20%	2.22	16.11%
1954		Philadelphia Phillies	22	22	90	79	4	19.75	641	565	41	13.78	9.76%	5.97	43.32%
1954		Pittsburgh Pirates	22	22	95	87	4	21.75	641	565	41	13.78	9.76%	7.97	57.83%
1954		Cincinnati Redlegs	22	22	93	79	3	26.33	641	565	41	13.78	7.32%	12.55	91.09%
	I	Split	G	GS	PA	AB	HR	AB/HR	PA	AB	HR	AB/HR	% tot	AB/HR dif	AB/HR %dif	Ebbets	%
1955		Brooklyn Dodgers	22	22	101	89	12	7.42	670	580	51	11.37	23.53%	-3.96	-34.78%	9	75%
1955		Pittsburgh Pirates	22	22	97	85	10	8.50	670	580	51	11.37	19.61%	-2.87	-25.26%
1955		Cincinnati Redlegs	21	21	93	84	8	10.50	670	580	51	11.37	15.69%	-.87	-7.67%
1955		Philadelphia Phillies	22	22	93	81	6	13.50	670	580	51	11.37	11.76%	2.13	18.71%
1955		Chicago Cubs	22	22	97	83	6	13.83	670	580	51	11.37	11.76%	2.46	21.64%
1955		Milwaukee Braves	21	21	90	77	5	15.40	670	580	51	11.37	9.80%	4.03	35.41%
1955		St. Louis Cardinals	22	22	99	81	4	20.25	670	580	51	11.37	7.84%	8.88	78.06%
	I	Split	G	GS	PA	AB	HR	AB/HR	PA	AB	HR	AB/HR	% tot	AB/HR dif	AB/HR %dif	Ebbets	%	Roosevelt	%
1956		Brooklyn Dodgers	21	21	89	79	10	7.90	651	578	36	16.06	27.78%	-8.16	-50.80%	6	60%	1	10%
1956		Pittsburgh Pirates	22	22	96	83	6	13.83	651	578	36	16.06	16.67%	-2.22	-13.84%
1956		Milwaukee Braves	22	21	89	80	5	16.00	651	578	36	16.06	13.89%	-.06	-0.35%
1956		St. Louis Cardinals	22	22	94	86	5	17.20	651	578	36	16.06	13.89%	1.14	7.13%
1956		Chicago Cubs	22	21	97	85	4	21.25	651	578	36	16.06	11.11%	5.19	32.35%
1956		Philadelphia Phillies	22	22	95	83	4	20.75	651	578	36	16.06	11.11%	4.69	29.24%
1956		Cincinnati Redlegs	21	21	91	82	2	41.00	651	578	36	16.06	5.56%	24.94	155.36%
	I	Split	G	GS	PA	AB	HR	AB/HR	PA	AB	HR	AB/HR	% tot	AB/HR dif	AB/HR %dif	Ebbets	%	Roosevelt	%
1957		Cincinnati Redlegs	22	22	104	84	8	10.50	669	585	35	16.71	22.86%	-6.21	-37.18%
1957		Chicago Cubs	22	22	98	89	6	14.83	669	585	35	16.71	17.14%	-1.88	-11.25%
1957		Milwaukee Braves	22	22	99	82	6	13.67	669	585	35	16.71	17.14%	-3.05	-18.23%
1957		Brooklyn Dodgers	22	22	98	84	5	16.80	669	585	35	16.71	14.29%	.09	0.51%	4	80%	0	0%
1957		Pittsburgh Pirates	22	21	96	91	4	22.75	669	585	35	16.71	11.43%	6.04	36.11%
1957		St. Louis Cardinals	20	20	89	81	3	27.00	669	585	35	16.71	8.57%	10.29	61.54%
1957		Philadelphia Phillies	22	20	85	74	3	24.67	669	585	35	16.71	8.57%	7.95	47.58%

And Mays hit most of his Dodger home runs in Ebbets Field Brooklyn.

Rank is the Brooklyn Dodger pitcher among all NL pitchers Mays faced at least 10 times in each of those four seasons:

year	Rk	team	Name	PA	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS
1954	1	Brooklyn	Clem Labine	10	8	5	1	0	1	4	2	0	.625	.700	1.125	1.825
1954	3	Brooklyn	Johnny Podres	10	9	5	1	0	1	3	1	0	.556	.600	1.000	1.600
1954	7	Brooklyn	Billy Loes	10	7	3	0	0	1	2	2	0	.429	.500	.857	1.357
1954	12	Brooklyn	Carl Erskine	28	27	9	0	0	4	10	1	3	.333	.357	.778	1.135
1954	14	Brooklyn	Don Newcombe	10	9	2	0	1	1	3	0	2	.222	.200	.778	.978
year	Rk	team	Name	PA	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS
1955	1	Brooklyn	Clem Labine	11	11	7	2	0	3	7	0	1	.636	.636	1.636	2.273
1955	3	Brooklyn	Johnny Podres	15	11	5	0	0	3	6	4	3	.455	.600	1.273	1.873
1955	14	Brooklyn	Don Newcombe	12	11	4	0	0	1	2	1	1	.364	.417	.636	1.053
1955	16	Brooklyn	Carl Erskine	14	13	3	0	0	2	3	1	1	.231	.286	.692	.978
year	Rk	team	Name	PA	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS
1956	2	Brooklyn	Don Drysdale	13	11	5	0	0	2	3	2	0	.455	.538	1.000	1.538
1956	8	Brooklyn	Carl Erskine	15	13	2	0	0	2	5	2	3	.154	.267	.615	.882
1956	14	Brooklyn	Don Newcombe	24	22	3	0	0	2	3	2	4	.136	.208	.409	.617
year	Rk	team	Name	PA	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS
1957	3	Brooklyn	Johnny Podres	16	13	7	2	1	2	3	3	2	.538	.625	1.308	1.933
1957	7	Brooklyn	Sal Maglie	11	8	4	0	1	0	2	3	0	.500	.636	.750	1.386
1957	11	Brooklyn	Don Drysdale	19	19	9	1	0	1	2	0	0	.474	.474	.684	1.158

Twice Clem Labine was number one (highest OPS) among all NL pitchers Mays faced at least 10 times that season.

Cumulative sorted by OPS, minimum 40 PA for all four seasons: 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957:

years	Rk	team	Name	PA	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS
all 4	1	Brooklyn	Johnny Podres	41	33	17	3	1	6	12	8	5	.515	.610	1.212	1.822
	2		Warren Hacker	42	38	16	3	2	7	13	4	4	.421	.476	1.158	1.634
	3		Vern Law	41	39	16	4	2	7	14	2	1	.410	.439	1.154	1.593
	4		Warren Spahn	85	67	27	4	1	6	11	16	8	.403	.506	.761	1.267
	5		Tom Poholsky	47	44	17	4	0	4	7	3	0	.386	.426	.750	1.176
	6	Brooklyn	Carl Erskine	57	53	14	0	0	8	18	4	7	.264	.316	.717	1.033
	7		Harvey Haddix	64	56	18	3	2	3	6	8	7	.321	.406	.607	1.013
	8		Curt Simmons	61	50	15	2	3	2	10	9	2	.300	.410	.580	.990
	9		Lew Burdette	52	50	16	1	2	4	9	1	4	.320	.327	.660	.987
	10		Johnny Klippstein	53	43	13	1	0	3	6	8	9	.302	.434	.535	.969
	11		Vinegar Bend Mizell	44	36	11	1	2	1	3	8	5	.306	.432	.528	.960
	12		Joe Nuxhall	77	67	19	2	1	5	13	9	4	.284	.364	.567	.931
	13		Bob Buhl	43	32	9	1	2	0	5	11	3	.281	.465	.438	.903
	14		Robin Roberts	85	78	25	5	2	2	5	7	10	.321	.376	.513	.889
	15		Gene Conley	60	54	14	1	0	4	6	6	8	.259	.333	.500	.833
	16	Brooklyn	Don Newcombe	54	50	12	0	1	4	8	3	7	.240	.278	.520	.798
	17		Bob Rush	83	78	19	3	2	4	12	4	10	.244	.277	.487	.764
	18		Art Fowler	60	56	14	0	1	2	8	4	3	.250	.300	.393	.693
year	Rk	team	Name	PA	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS

Brooklyn Dodger lefty Johnny Podres was clobbered the most by Willie Mays 1954-1957. Non Brooklyn pitchers Law and Hacker allowed one more home run but in more AB. But what about Clem Labine? Here are the career numbers for Mays against Labine:

Year	PA	AB	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	SH	SF	IBB	HBP	GDP
1951	4	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	0	0	0	0	0
1952	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0		1.000			0	0	0	0	0
1954	10	8	5	1	0	1	4	2	0	.625	.700	1.125	1.825	0	0	1	0	0
1955	11	11	7	2	0	3	7	0	1	.636	.636	1.636	2.273	0	0	0	0	0
1956	4	4	2	0	0	1	2	0	0	.500	.500	1.250	1.750	0	0	0	0	0
1957	8	8	3	0	1	0	1	0	0	.375	.375	.625	1.000	0	0	0	0	0
1958	11	10	5	1	0	2	4	1	0	.500	.545	1.200	1.745	0	0	0	0	0
1959	3	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	.667	.667	.667	1.333	0	0	0	0	0
1960	5	5	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	.400	.400	.600	1.000	0	0	0	0	0
1961	7	6	1	1	0	0	2	1	1	.167	.286	.333	.619	0	0	1	0	1
	64	59	28	6	1	7	20	5	2	.475	.516	.966	1.482	0	0	2	0	1

Clem finally got the better of Willie in 1961 pitching for Pittsburgh, although Willie doubled in a run in his final plate appearance (PA) against Clem:

Saturday, July 15, 1961

Attendance: 22,596

Venue: Candlestick Park

Game Duration: 2:38

Day Game, on grass

Giants 8, Pirates 3