JSngry Posted June 19 Report Share Posted June 19 https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/giants/article/willie-mays-dead-obituary-17815215.php Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hardbopjazz Posted June 19 Report Share Posted June 19 R.I.P. Willie Mays. He has died at 93. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Hardbopjazz Posted June 19 Report Share Posted June 19 The best I've even seen play the game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Posted June 19 Report Share Posted June 19 16 minutes ago, JSngry said: https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/giants/article/willie-mays-dead-obituary-17815215.php I have that card. A little too young to have seen him in his prime. How old was he? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted June 19 Author Report Share Posted June 19 93. Literally the first player I saw walking into my first ever big league game, Astros vs Giants, Astrodome, summer of 1965. He was in the outfield getting loose and that 24 grabbed hold of my psyche instantly and forever. Indelible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felser Posted June 19 Report Share Posted June 19 I own three autographed baseballs. One is his. RIP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GA Russell Posted June 19 Report Share Posted June 19 RIP Willie Mays! The great ones make it look easy. Remember the basket catch? And the most famous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted June 19 Author Report Share Posted June 19 The Polo Grounds...insane layout... Would that even be legal today? LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GA Russell Posted June 19 Report Share Posted June 19 Built in 1890 for the Players League. Of course, greatly expanded since 1890. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted June 19 Report Share Posted June 19 He was the oldest living Hall of fame member. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soulpope Posted June 19 Report Share Posted June 19 R.I.P .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Bresnahan Posted June 19 Report Share Posted June 19 He was a bit before my time & he played when the only thing you saw on TV was your local team, which for me was the Red Sox. Willie spent his whole career in the National League so he never played the Red Sox. I never saw him play. But I had his baseball cards in the late 60s & early 70s when he played for the Mets. I vaguely remember seeing some of his plays on the news when I was a kid. But that catch - everyone saw The Catch, which was "The Catch" before the NFL's 49ers co-opted the term. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted June 19 Report Share Posted June 19 Saw Willie Mays play at Connie Mack Stadium when I was a lad. We lived about six blocks from the Stadium, but I only went a few times as sports was just not a thing in our family. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milestones Posted June 19 Report Share Posted June 19 (edited) Great, great player for sure. I never saw him in person, but I was quite young when he retired--plus I'm from an American League city and no inter-league play back then and we just had limited awareness of the NL players. Of course, in Cleveland we were not happy with Mays for one incident--the famous catch in the 1954 World Series that is continually replayed. Of course, it was a great fielder doing what he had to do, but it was the key element in a fine Series for the Giants and a lousy one for the Indians. Edited June 19 by Milestones Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ken Dryden Posted June 19 Report Share Posted June 19 Willie Mays was a one of a kind. I had a baseball magazine that had a cover article stating. "Mantle Better Than Mays," which obviously wasn't true long before Mantle retired after the 1968 season. While Mantle reached greater heights in individual years, including a Triple Crown, plus taking part in many more World Series, his injuries to both legs, careless attitude toward proper rehab and penchant for striking out make it clear Mays had the superior career. I remember that PSA from childhood well, "...Those are blasting caps, now remember now, don't touch them!" I don't even have to play the video clip, it is so ingrained in my mind. 14 hours ago, JSngry said: https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/giants/article/willie-mays-dead-obituary-17815215.php I still have this card, along with the 1964, 1965, 19767 and 1969 Topps cards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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