Giants legend Willie Mays dies at 93

Yahoo Sports ^ | 6/19/24

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Willie Mays, the iconic Hall of Fame center fielder who is known as the greatest all-around baseball player, died Tuesday, the San Francisco Giants announced. He was 93 years old.

Mays, nicknamed “The Say Hey Kid,” had a professional baseball career that spanned four decades, beginning with the Negro Leagues in the late 1940s and ending with the New York Mets in 1972. In between, he spent 21 years with the New York Giants, who would later move to San Francisco.

Mays was born on May 6, 1931, in Westfield, Alabama, and named Willie, not William. Both his parents were talented athletes, but his father was the one who introduced Mays to baseball. Cat Mays was a semi-pro player on several local Black teams and had his son sitting in the dugout with him at 10 after teaching him the fundamentals years before.

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1954 The Treniers with Willie Mays - Say Hey (The Willie Mays Song)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SRbfMkeASk&t=57s

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Willie Mays playing stickball with the neighborhood kids. That's his 1951 Pontiac in the background. Legend has it that then Giants Mgr Leo "the Lip" Dorocher was so paranoid he'd have his teammate Monte Irvin drive it around. Monte effectively became the first Uber driver before the parents of the founders of Uber were even thought of 🙂🙂