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Watch Vin Scully tell Willie Mays 'You've always been my favorite player'
Fox Sports ^ | 10/2/16 | Kerouac Smith

Posted on 10/03/2016 9:31:56 AM PDT by Impala64ssa

Baseball icon Vin Scully paid the ultimate compliment to former MLB great Willie Mays as the Los Angeles Dodgers broadcaster prepares to call his final game on Sunday.

Before Saturday's game against the rival San Francisco Giants, Scully spent some time with one of the team's -- and baseball's -- all-time greats, with both men clearly giddy during the exchange.

The best part, though, is Scully telling Mays "You've always been my favorite player, even though you wore the wrong uniform."

We'll miss you, Vin.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: baseball; seyhey; vinscully; williemays
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Video at link. When my Dad played in the minor leagues he met Willie Mays when he was a rookie at an exhibition game. To call Mays a great ballplayer is an understatement, and Mr. Mays has always been a gentleman on and off the field. A truly class act! He was always one of my favorites, and I've been a Mets fan through thick and thin :)
1 posted on 10/03/2016 9:31:56 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
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To: Impala64ssa

Say Hey!!! My idol as a kid!!


2 posted on 10/03/2016 9:36:41 AM PDT by JimSEA
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To: Impala64ssa

I watched the last game he played in May 1972, as a Met. At the end of the game the presented him with a brand spanking new Dodge Charger, wonder if that car is still around?


3 posted on 10/03/2016 9:36:53 AM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: Impala64ssa

Where do the years go? Willie Mays is 85 years old.


4 posted on 10/03/2016 9:36:57 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Impala64ssa

Willie was/is my favorite baseball player ever since I saw him play in the Polo Grounds. IMO Mays is the greatest baseball player who ever lived. He had it all.


5 posted on 10/03/2016 9:43:26 AM PDT by kabar
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To: Dilbert San Diego
I grew up NYC area in the 50s/60s. Constant argument we had as kids - who's better, Willie, Mickey or the Duke? My man was Willie.
I listened to Scully call the Giants game yesterday just out of respect. What a class act.
6 posted on 10/03/2016 9:47:40 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: kabar

If anything a better fielder than a hitter. Incredible athlete. Listened on the radio. Also loved the entire Dodger team but Willie was the exception, even better than the Duke.


7 posted on 10/03/2016 9:51:35 AM PDT by JimSEA
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To: Impala64ssa

Never been a Scully fan. Too nasal and too Dodger
for me. I do agree with Vin about Willie Mays. As
a country kid I only got to go to a couple of ballgames
in my childhood. At Candlestick I saw Willie take a
walk to first. The pitcher overthrew a pick off throw
and Willie somehow made it to third. Again the pitcher
tried a pick off throw. This time the ball got by the
third baseman. Willie slid under the tag at home.
What memories.


8 posted on 10/03/2016 9:55:41 AM PDT by Sivad (NorCal red turf.)
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To: Impala64ssa

Yeah, but, would the media reflect my personal reverence for Al Kaline in light of Al’s personal respect of Ty Cobb?
Nah...

I find (timeline) Ty Cobb, Hank Greenberg and Al Kaline some of the greatest players in the game...EVER.

Willie Mays is an equivalent. Take away melanin content and we have a level playing field. Isn’t that the intent of “racial equality”?


9 posted on 10/03/2016 10:00:21 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Global warming is the number-one cause of climate change documentaries.)
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To: oh8eleven

My Dad hated Willie Mays.

Then again, he was a Tribe fan. (1954, Polo Grounds. Vic Wertz, and all that)

:)


10 posted on 10/03/2016 10:01:47 AM PDT by Dana1960
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To: oh8eleven

Did Willie ever steal home?
42!


11 posted on 10/03/2016 10:02:13 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Global warming is the number-one cause of climate change documentaries.)
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To: JimSEA

We had the Duke, Mickey, and Willie in NY at the same time. Those were the golden years. Willie missed two years while serving in the Army. And the move to windy Candlestick from the Polo Grounds affected the number of home runs he could have amassed.


12 posted on 10/03/2016 10:02:23 AM PDT by kabar
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To: Impala64ssa

Willie Mays is the best player that lived. Roberto Cemente was close. Mays was dominate in every aspect of the game. First he hit over 600 home runs when pictures ruled the game and steroids weren’t invented.

But he also had over 3000 base hits and over 300 stolen bases. And in the field he was the most dominate center fielder ever with his trademark basket cage. He caught everything from left center to right center, deep and short.

Plus he was always positive. Like Ernie Banks, he was a great spokesman for the game.


13 posted on 10/03/2016 10:08:05 AM PDT by poinq
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At a game in Candlestick in 1971, Willie was on 3rd then the hitter lofted a soft fly to left. Willie just stood on the base with his hands on his hips until the fielder caught the ball. Then, when the left fielder threw a rainbow back into the infield, Willie sprinted home. As a 15 year-old Mets fan at that game I didn’t like what he did, but I learned a lot about a great ballplayer.


14 posted on 10/03/2016 10:26:03 AM PDT by Andyman (The truth shall make you FReep.)
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To: kabar

Mickey was a “”Yankee”” and thus, his name couldn’t be mentioned in our house. Stan, the man, was another great of that era, but, of course, more favored by us westerners.


15 posted on 10/03/2016 10:26:03 AM PDT by JimSEA
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Old Bums fan.
Loved 42.
Yogi was right,
he was OUT!


16 posted on 10/03/2016 10:30:44 AM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

See post #8.

As to 42 my personal attitude is that he soiled
his own memory with unnecessary race baiting. I
recall that he criticized young Giant Jim Ray Hart
for not being “down for the struggle “. Willie
came to Jimmy Ray’s defense.


17 posted on 10/03/2016 10:37:29 AM PDT by Sivad (NorCal red turf.)
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To: JimSEA
Say Hey!!! My idol as a kid!!

Mine, too. I saw him for the first time in 1962, when I was 8. One year for Christmas, I got a Giants uniform with 24 on the back, and I wore it to several games.

Broke my heart when the Giants traded him to the Mets, and it was broken again with his missteps during the '73 World Series.

Willie never weighed more than 210 lbs, and he hit over 600 homers.

He hit the game winning home run in the greatest pitchers' duel in baseball history, on 7/2/63. It was in the bottom of the 16th inning off Warren Spahn. The final score was 1-0, and both pitchers (fellow HOFer Juan Marichal) pitched complete games.

Marichal went seven innings (gave up two runs) in his next start, on 7/7/63. Warren hurled a complete game shutout the same day, at the sprightly age of 42.

18 posted on 10/03/2016 10:47:10 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: Impala64ssa

Willie did not play his last game as a Met in 1972 iirc.


19 posted on 10/03/2016 11:01:40 AM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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Willie finished is career at a Met in the 1973 World Series.


20 posted on 10/03/2016 11:25:11 AM PDT by outpostinmass2
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