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well we just got some horrible news just seem confirmed the passing of the great Willie Ma at age 93 right on the eve of what was going to be a real tribute to Willie and so many of his Brethren the game at rickwood field in Birmingham that’s coming up this weekend as the flyball hit out to center field Andis makes the play but greatest ball player I’ve ever seen will Mays has passed away um uh I’m in your court there uh best player I’ve ever seen the greatest player I fortunately grew up in the Bay Area in what maz’s prime and he was a five tool player an extraordinarily good five to player he go he’ll do you go to a game he he would do something whether it would be a great catch a great throw stolen base hadit a home run uh or he’d do all he was just that kind of player well it makes you uh really think about your childhood and it it makes me grateful that the Mets made the decision to fulfill a long-term promise to Willie to have his number retired by the Mets last summer and um number 24 will hang from the rafters at City Field forever I have my select few baseballs that are signed by the players that U my when I was a kid grown growing up and I have prominently up in my study uh Willie ma is a baseball he signed for me 660 Major League home runs despite playing a large portion of his career at Candlestick Park which was a place that denied him as many home runs as he hit with those winds blowing in off the bay uh but he he used right center field too he was a smart hitter and how lir told me when he broke in and Hal had a great rookie year and Maize felt that Hal was going to be a because I can’t do anything I’m out in the Outfield and he goes it has to be someone on the infield and he was kind of grooming how to be the leader on that infield he said no one knew the hitters better every hitter better than Willie May and he positioned players uh Bobby bonds I played with and Bobby bonds everybody just had glowing things to say about Willie Willie had the spray chart in his head before anybody put it down on paper or on a computer
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He was the best. God Bless, I am blessed to have seen him play!!!!
Undoubtedly the greatest baseball player I've ever seen 😞 forever #24
Willie was the GOAT
My first sports hero. I remember being eight years old, just discovering baseball and watching my first MLB all-star game during in the 1965 season. This one black player was introduced and the crowd immediately jumped to their feet with a rousing standing ovation that lasted a while. Growing up black in the Deep South during those years of segregation and racial tensions, l was amazed by the respect shown for that black man at that time in history amongst all that turmoil. This was still less than twenty years since Jackie Robinson was initially disrespected in every way possible. That player was Willie Mays. Back in those days we only had two (clear) television channels and one tv game a week, so whenever l saw Willie Mays (maybe once or twice a season) it was something special.
I thought Sr. Willie Mays MLB ⚾ Legend would of lived to 💯🎂 RIP Mays Aaron Clemente Top ⚾