the answer: in the Morrisiana sector (158th St and Eagle Ave) we called Willie Mays a THREE SEWER man because Home Plate was NOT a sewer but a chalked HOME PLATE; in other Neighborhoods a sewer might be homeplate but that was just because of the-lay-of-the-land. On 158th ‘tween Eagle and Caldwell Aves Homeplate was between the first sewer and the second one on the block.