Willie Mays

with Willie Mays
in Sports
on Wednesday, February 17, 2010 * * * * *

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Baseball legend Willie Mays

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    1. jeffnelson  02/07/2012 01:40 PM Report

      I watched the game he hit 4 home runs on TV. It was a Saturday (or Sunday) afternoon broadcast on (I looked it up) April 30, 1961 at Milwaukee. It seems that CBS and NBC both broadcast games each weekend afternoon back then. Dizzy Dean and Pee Wee Reese on CBS, perhaps Joe Garagiola on NBC. Willie was on deck in the ninth inning when the Giants made their third out. Another HR by Willie would have been, well, indescribable.

    2. bigstick56  03/01/2010 07:35 PM Report

      A great player that made baseball greater

    3. ShalomFreedman  02/19/2010 03:14 AM Report

      I wish Charlie Rose had asked him about Leo Durocher. Durocher was extremely important to Mays. There is the famous story about how Willie struck out in one of his first games and thought he would be benched. And Durocher told him that he would be his centerfield not just for the next game but for 'forever'.

      Willie had it all, and did it with consummate grace and class.

      As he makes clear in this interview he loved the game and played it with that love. He also did not respond with hatred to those who cursed him.

      He seems part of a more innocent time and world.

      Who does the thing for the love of the thing itself- he is the supreme master.

      So Willie Mays baseball player- center fielder.

    4. guillone  02/18/2010 03:26 PM Report

      1963, I was seven years old. Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle are the reasons I played baseball. They were always my boyhood heros.....

      was there a better player ever than Mays? not for my money. :D

    5. doodahdaze  02/18/2010 01:24 PM Report

      What a nice guy. If he did something other than baseball, he would have been the best at that too. He had the natural talent (so did Reggie Jackson), AND, he took his job seriously (something Reggie Jackson did not). People like Willie Mays are the salt of the earth. Willie Mayzinggrace. :)

    6. REMant  02/18/2010 11:04 AM Report

      Nice interview. A better role model for the current generation than many others. It seems to me Mays, like Mandela, is an example of the Stoic great-souled, or magnanimous, person. Has nothing to do with approval of others.