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Willie Mays Passes Away at age 93
NY Times ^ | 6/18/24 | Richard Goldstein

Posted on 06/18/2024 6:14:23 PM PDT by mkmensinger

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To: mkmensinger

Yes, Rest In Peace, Willie.


21 posted on 06/18/2024 6:46:09 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: mkmensinger

WILLIE MAYS HAYES: I hit like Mays, and I run like Hayes.


22 posted on 06/18/2024 6:46:46 PM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." — M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: mkmensinger

One of the greatest.


23 posted on 06/18/2024 6:47:36 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: mkmensinger

Noooooo!

Man, so sad.


24 posted on 06/18/2024 6:48:42 PM PDT by ifinnegan (MDemocrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: mkmensinger

Absolutely one of the greatest baseball players who ever lived. I’ve been a fan of his ever since I read his biography in grade school. RIP Willie.


25 posted on 06/18/2024 6:53:45 PM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: mkmensinger

Willie Mays and Vin Scully finally meet on Scully’s last day. Scully had always said Mays was the greayest player he’d ever seen. No disagreement here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmie25ivv6o&t=6s


26 posted on 06/18/2024 6:54:34 PM PDT by chrisinoc
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To: mkmensinger

Rejoice in the hands of Jesus Mr. Mays. You were one of my childhood heroes.


27 posted on 06/18/2024 6:55:42 PM PDT by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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To: mkmensinger

Scott Miller was 64, killed by an illegal immigrant.

Rachel Morin was 37, killed by an illegal immigrant.

Laken Riley was 22, killed by an illegal immigrant.

The Garcia Family were ages 31 to 9, five killed by an illegal immigrant.

Lizbeth Medina was 16, killed by an illegal immigrant.

Don’t let them distract you.


28 posted on 06/18/2024 6:59:03 PM PDT by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой!)
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To: mkmensinger

Met him on the tee at a celebrity pro-am in the 80’s. Smiling, enjoying life, which he deserved.

I assume he played at Ricketts field in the negro league, where the MLB is hosting a game this weekend (iirc)...wish he could have seen that.


29 posted on 06/18/2024 7:01:00 PM PDT by chiller (Davey Crockett said: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead'. I'll go ahead.)
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To: Apparatchik

wrong thread, I’ll venture


30 posted on 06/18/2024 7:02:26 PM PDT by chiller (Davey Crockett said: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead'. I'll go ahead.)
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To: mkmensinger

and all the cardboard fans went, ‘’’’


31 posted on 06/18/2024 7:04:14 PM PDT by xoxox
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To: mkmensinger

RIP GOAT baseball player. ⚾️❤️🇺🇸


32 posted on 06/18/2024 7:06:49 PM PDT by Jane Long (The role of the GOP: to write sharply-worded letters as America becomes a communist hell-hole.)
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To: Apparatchik

Yes.

Doesn’t distract to honor one of America’s finest.


33 posted on 06/18/2024 7:07:44 PM PDT by Jane Long (The role of the GOP: to write sharply-worded letters as America becomes a communist hell-hole.)
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands
Few players were the complete package of Willie Mays. He could do it all. Hit for power AND average, run and steal bases and play centerfield probably only second to Tris Speaker.

Very similar fielding statistics for both of these greats and I give Speaker a slight edge only because of equipment advances between gloves of the 1920s versus 40 years later.

If I were to select 25 players for the greatest of all time roster, it would most certainly include Willie Mays.

34 posted on 06/18/2024 7:11:40 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: chiller

Just an FIB instigator.


35 posted on 06/18/2024 7:17:13 PM PDT by Niteranger68 (If you don't vote, you are part of the rigging.)
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To: mkmensinger

I didn’t know he was still alive.


36 posted on 06/18/2024 7:19:42 PM PDT by Mercat
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To: mkmensinger

IMO the best Center fielder ever.


37 posted on 06/18/2024 7:21:19 PM PDT by Fury (I )
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To: mkmensinger

I had no idea he was still alive.


38 posted on 06/18/2024 7:26:47 PM PDT by roving (Deplorable Erectionists Listless Vessel )
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To: mkmensinger

Saw him play when I was a kid. Wish I would have got his autograph.


39 posted on 06/18/2024 7:32:49 PM PDT by skyman
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wrong thread, I’ll venture

No, he is correct. Let's not allow bread and circuses to distract us from the destruction of the Constitution.

40 posted on 06/18/2024 7:36:58 PM PDT by nwrep
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