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Willie Howard Mays Jr. (May 6, 1931 – June 18, 2024), nicknamed "the Say Hey Kid", was an American professional baseball center fielder who played 23 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB).
Before and after games in the 1950s, Mays played stickball and got ice cream with kids at 155th Street and St. Nicholas Place, where he lived, with the approval of Giants manager Leo Durocher.
Mays was a frequent visitor to the downtown ballpark in San Francisco at 24 Willie Mays Plaza with his statue outside the stadium. As Hall of Famer Ken Griffey Jr. said: “He'll always be the ...
I was with my family when I heard Willie Mays died at 93. One of my kids asked: “Who is Willie Mays?” The person who posed the question is 20 and was born 30 years after Mays retired from a ...
Willie Mays, the "Say Hey Kid" of 1950s and 1960s Giants fame, a home run slugger and center field star for most of his 23-year Major League Baseball career, died Tuesday at 93 after a short ...
Willie Mays and the Say-Hey Kid is a 1972 American traditionally-animated television special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions. [1] The special aired on October 14, 1972 as part of The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie .
Willie Mays, widely regarded as the finest player in Major League Baseball history, died Tuesday afternoon, the San Francisco Giants announced.
When people ask me how good of a player Willie Mays was, I give them a perhaps odd answer. The San Francisco Giants basically gave Mays to the New York Mets for practically nothing in 1972, and a ...