Willie Mays, one of baseball’s all-time greatest players who retired with 660 career home runs, has died at 93
Willie Mays, the electrifying ‘Say Hey Kid’ whose singular combination of talent, drive and exuberance made him one of baseball’s greatest and most beloved players, has died. He was 93.
The center fielder was baseball’s oldest living Hall of Famer. His signature basket catch and his dashes around the bases with his cap flying off personified the joy of the game. HisMays died two days before a game between the Giants and St Louis Cardinals to honor the Negro Leagues at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama.is in mourning today as we are gathered at the very ballpark where a career and a legacy like no other began,” Commissioner Rob Manfred said.
He was voted into the Hall in 1979, his first year of eligibility, and in 1999 followed only Babe Ruth on The Sporting News’ list of the game’s top stars. . The Giants retired his uniform number, 24, and set their AT&T Park in San Francisco on Willie Mays Plaza. With the count 1-2, Wertz smashed a fastball to deep center field. In an average park, with an average center fielder, Wertz would have homered, or at least had an easy triple. But the center field wall in the eccentrically shaped Polo Grounds was more than 450 feet away. And there was nothing close to average about the skills of Willie Mays.
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