I live in what I call the New York Yankees historical baseball district.
My address is in Harlem — on Edgecombe Avenue — but Yankee Stadium and baseball lore permeate the entire area.
Willie Mays lived in an apartment building directly in back of mine when he first joined the New York Giants in 1951.
The steep staircase he took to walk down to the Polo Grounds is still there, though the site of the long-gone stadium is now occupied by a massive housing development.
In his honor, a stretch of St. Nicholas Place has been co-named Willie Mays Place.