“Watching this documentary brought a proud and grateful smile to my face, and I hope everyone else enjoys it too,' said the 'Say Hey Kid.'
A new Willie Mays documentary is holding its world premiere on Thursday in the same city in which the"Say Hey Kid" first became a legend.
He didn’t just love baseball. He was baseball.#SayHeyWillieMays, an original documentary that follows the legendary superstar’s iconic career and trailblazing influence in and out of the sport, premieres November 8 on @hbomax. #HBO50 pic.twitter.com/HOk6chg1gB But Mays became synonymous with San Francisco soon after the Giants moved across the country, spending parts of 15 seasons in The City as the team's first Black star during its time on the West Coast.
"San Francisco accepted him as an athletic star, but not as a person they wanted to live next door to," former Mayor Willie Brown, who is also Black, said in the documentary's trailer.
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