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Join Date: Mar 2013
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Willie Mays…
Rest in peace, sir. You were a titan.
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My favorite athlete of all time. I likely saw him play, in person, fifty times or more.
I met him in person once, in Lake Tahoe, and he was just as nice as he could be. This would have been about 1968. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/...e-mays-dies-93 |
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Join Date: Nov 2019
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I met him once, at The Stick. Greatest player of all time, RIP Willie.
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“Baseball isn’t statistics; it’s Joe DiMaggio rounding second.” “Once, centuries ago, it was the beloved national pastime of the Americas, Wesley. Abandoned by a society that prized fast food and faster games. Lost to impatience.” “ The term ‘WAR’ should be replaced by ‘WAG’. WAR isn’t an actual measurement; it’s just a wild-ass guess” -Bill James RIP National League 1876-2022 Floreat semper vel invita morte. I make custom ballparks. |
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Farewell to the (IMO) greatest MLB player of all time. Age 93 is at least a decade too soon
The world was better because you were in it, sir. Wherever you may be headed, say "hey" for me. ETA: I hope that Florida can properly destroy the Oilers without me. Now I have to just watch the Mets game (and the Giants when the Mets are in commercials) so I can see all the tributes. Sorry, Panthers. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Giants didn't change the orange in their uniforms for gold until late in Willie's career. But Willie was always golden. ![]() I'm glad that Willie lived long enough for the Mets to retire his number. (Willie may not have cared, but I did.) Last edited by Amazin69; 06-18-2024 at 09:29 PM. |
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Join Date: Jul 2015
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Sucks. They are having that special Negro League tribute game in Birmingham Thursday and were hoping to have him there. But they said he wouldn't be able to make it. Sad to say goodbye to the "Say Hey kid".
I actually got a chance to see him in what turned out to be his last year. I was 3 or 4. Mom took us (me, bro & cousin) to see the Mets. She pointed Mays out to me & he hit a HR. I remember watching everyone run around the bases. It's one of my earliest memories.
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Join Date: Apr 2018
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I would hope my name here tells you just how big a fan of his I was. IMHO the greatest to ever lace em up. Today's a very, very sad day for me and for baseball.
Rest In Peace Mr. Mays. |
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Join Date: Jun 2010
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Who knew Mays had nearly twice the WAR of Griffey Jr?
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Join Date: Nov 2019
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When Willie was nearing the end of his career with SF, the giants owner couldn’t afford to pay him his salary, but rather than release him, he traded Willie to the Mets, so that he could retire in NY, where he started and still had many fans.
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“Baseball isn’t statistics; it’s Joe DiMaggio rounding second.” “Once, centuries ago, it was the beloved national pastime of the Americas, Wesley. Abandoned by a society that prized fast food and faster games. Lost to impatience.” “ The term ‘WAR’ should be replaced by ‘WAG’. WAR isn’t an actual measurement; it’s just a wild-ass guess” -Bill James RIP National League 1876-2022 Floreat semper vel invita morte. I make custom ballparks. |
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The Giants are really doing a fine job with this extended postgame show. (I had it on delay for over an hour, because I needed a pause.) Doing Willie proud. |
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Join Date: May 2004
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I looked it up and with the loss of Mays there are now 2 former Negro League players still alive:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/p...reasbi01.shtml https://www.baseball-reference.com/p...easlro01.shtml Neither guy actually played much in the NeL (although Greason also got a cup of coffee with the Cardinals, I guess shortly after they integrated their team for the first time in 1954) so in a sense Mays is the last of his kind in one other way...
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Part of the Giants' Willie-intensive postgame on Tuesday night was a re-airing of the episode of their Legends series about Willie. It was about 10 years old, and I couldn't help notice how many of the great players they interviewed had themselves passed in the intervening decade. Farewell Gaylord and Stretch and Bad Henry and Little Joe, all giants in your own ways.
(Cha-Cha and Felipe Alou are still hanging in there. The Dominican Dandy was not interviewed, but he's still with us, as well.) I hope the Mets start wearing a "24" memorial patch on their uniforms for Willie. (I assume the Giants will, but Willie was a New York Giant in his greatest glory.) |
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Join Date: Apr 2012
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Giants already wore a small round patch on the upper left chest yesterday in Chicago. Which surprised me - it appears they traveled prepared.
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Well, as much as I like to mock "The Second City" (when the boxing writer A.J. Liebling came up with that nickname, he did not mean it as a compliment), there's probably somewhere in Chicago that can make some patches on short notice.
At least, I would hope so. (Edit: most likely, they asked the Cubs who makes their patches, and put in a rush order. Just a guess, though; hate to think that the Giants had been lugging the patches around since April.) Last edited by Amazin69; 06-20-2024 at 07:35 PM. |
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