Weekend Reading: Mays, the Babe and a Botch

Postseason play is heating up big-time. In the baseball season's transition from endings to beginnings, a number of people around the game have looked back a ways in this past week:

• Artist Thom Ross is on a mission of unforgetting. In this case, he's toting his mural of the famous Willie Mays catch to the scene of its enactment: he and friends placed the installation on the exact spot that the catch was made. SI.com
• Recently undiscovered home video footage of Babe Ruth at the bat confirms that he took his sweet time about it. New York Times
• Fangraph's Dave Cameron ensures surly Cards fans that Thursday's loss wasn't all Matt Holliday's fault. Fangraphs
• Paul DePodesta reminds us of the trials and the tears of a career in baseball's front office. It Might Be Dangerous
• Stuart Shea offers a poem to the soon-to-move-on. Bardball