Willie Mays passing leaves giant hole in baseball's heart | Yahoo Sports
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
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May you rest in peace Willie. I'm 75 years-old and you were definitely the greatest all-around player I ever saw, and baseball has always been my number one sport. Willie Mays was one of a kind.
Well said.
He was a great player and person.
The GOAT, he hit above 300 for his lifetime, had 660 home runs, had over 1,900 RBIs and had 3,283 hits. He also had a lifetime slugging percentage of .557. Keep in mind he played in an era where the mound was higher and the pitchers had a huge advantage over the hitters. Willie Mays played in 24 All Star Games, won 12 golden gloves, stole 339 bases and won 2 MVP awards. But he will forever be remembered for that over the shoulder basket catch he made in the world series.
Served two years in the Korean War. The man was incredible!
How he hit all those homers at candlestick is just as extroadinary
@@RBS314 Indeed.
I went to a lot of Giants games (12 years) at Candlestick Park and he lost about 120 Hrs due to the wind and the average estimated number of Hrs lost by 2 years in Korean War is 70 for a total of 190. So maybe 850 was Willie's real number ....
Willie Mays was and always has been baseball to me.
I was born in 1947, in San Francisco, California, and raised in San Jose. The South Bay. At the age of 10 I began listening to the SF Giants on my crystal radio. The technology of the day for a kid interested in electronics.
To me the Giants was Willie Mays. I remember imagining his home runs and amazing left field catches. He defined baseball for me. A definition that has never changed for me. As time marched on baseball became a business as it has for all other professional sports. It sadly lost its Willie Mays luster.
Willie Mays will be missed in so very many ways. Goodbye Willie we loved you then, and love your memory now…
Same here. Born in 1947 in the Bay Area. Watched Willie and the Giants starting in 58 at Seals Stadium and then on to Candlestick. Many great memories. He was truly my childhood hero. I learned everything about playing baseball by watching him play. Hearing of his death today tore me up.
I remember going to some games at the 'stick - Mays, McCovey, Cepeda and Marichal where the greats of that era.
Their has never been anyone better, he was an alltime greeeat player. ran the team from the outfield. God Bless
OMG there’s a hole in my heart! Truly the greatest modern ball player in history all round. What a natural! Rest In Peace Willie Mays. We love you Say Hey Kid
What a amazing Man🙌 Great and still humble!
RIP Willie! A true American legend !
RIP Willie
The GOAT
I wore #24 all throughout my sports days growing up because of Willie. RIP our friend and hero!!
RIP Mr. Mays. Best I ever saw.🌟
No doubt. The best there ever was.
@@ericsadler9664 He getts my vote.
Mays,Ruth,Aaron, Bonds is my Mount Rushmore with Miggy,Jeter,Lou and Joe following. Robinson, Ted, Cobb, Ripken, Mantle… so many greats but may he Rest in Peace 🙏🏽
You have to add Musial, Rickey Henderson, Clemente and Ken Griffey .!
@@SkyNetGeneral-👍🏽👌🏽
Bonds doesn't make my Mount Rushmore because of the steroid use. Hank Aaron and Willie Mays belong on the Mount Rushmore.
@@StevenC32 and Ruth and Cobb never played with other Americans like Josh Gibson etc .
Willie ⚾️ the best! 1954 best catch ever. 1961 4 homers in one game
A big time legend the greatest ball player I've seen in all my yrs of watchin baseball a complete player between him & tom seaver my favorites who dominated I cried when Mays retired,I crying now rip u will be sadly missed 😪💔
Agreed. Fond memories. Crying now.
r.i.p. bro. revolutionary ball player
and yet, JUST a ballplayer.
Without controversy: The greatest of all time. RIP
I don’t think there can be an all-time greatest player. But I will say this (and have, for many years): there has never been a better player than Willie Mays.
His catch in Game 1 of the 1954 World Series was the best catch in baseball history! Nothing else comes close! It's impossible to imagine the numbers he would have put up if he hadn't missed time for military service! A-Mays-ing!
I grew up watching Willie play centerfield in San Francisco since the day the Giants arrived in 1958 when I was in elementary school, watching at Seals Stadium in downtown San Francisco under the towering glass of beer Hamms Brewery sign. Willie was my childhood hero. I saw him do so many unbelievable things over the years. The game in which he hit 4 home runs. The impossible catches against the centerfield fence followed pinpoint throws to home plate to stop runners from scoring or throwing them out. I practiced his patented technique of running full steam, head down to where he thought the ball was going to be , only looking up to catch it at the last second. I failed many times, but then I got it. Willie Mays taught me how to play baseball by watching him play. He was often said to be a natural talent, as if that was god-given, but that discounted his intelligence and dedication to perfecting his craft. He did things differently and better than others. Yes, I idolized him. He meant so much to me. We all must go eventually, but this still hurtsa lot. Play on, Say Hey Kid!
We ALL need to STOP for a minute, Willie Mays, my hero, died today. A MAN of honor, grace and humility that was born from his era. Served his country selfishly, would athletes of today do that? I am not sure. I had the honor of watching Willie play a few innings of a game in 1968 or 69. He replaced Barry Bonds because the crowd chanted for it. It was bat day for the kids.
I wept at his passing. From the time the Giants moved to SF, I listened to the game on radio announced by Russ Hodges and Lon Simmons, two of the best baseball announcers in the game. “Tell it bye bye baby” was the cry from them on home rums by the Giants. I saw many great ball players from 1959 through today: Mantle, Koufax, Clemente, Colavito,,Aaron, Banks, Gibson, Stargell and of course McCovey! All great players and many I didn’t name. But Willie Mays was special, my childhood hero, and now he is gone. RiP Willie!
It's notoriously difficult to compare players who played in different eras. I won't take away from or disparage anyone who's in the usual GOAT discussion, but in my humble opinion, Mr. Mays is it.
The stats, the awards, the records and accolades are impressive, but none so much as his obvious love for the game. RIP, Mr. Mays.
Veteran , HOFer, All Time Great . You will be truly missed by all. R.I.P Legend
I knew it was impossible. But I was always hoping Willie would last forever. Indeed, he will, as long as baseball is played.
Rest in peace legend 🙏⚾️
My idol
Mine too.
What a name what a game loved Willie Mays!
That’s the way this feels-a huge hole in baseball’s heart.
Rest N Peace 2 The Legend That Is Mr Willie Mays...Eas"T"exas Respect 🙏 🫡 2 One Of The Greatest.
As a Midwesterner, he was my boyhood idle. I wore his # and so did my son. God bless #24.
R.I.P to a true legend and the best player to ever take the field.
This was my childhood hero. I am one sad septuagenarian tonight. Godspeed, immortal man.
I got to watch the say hey kid in NY as a met when I was a kid RIP #24
L0VED YOU!!!!!!! BIG TIME. WHEN BASEBALL,BOXING AND HORSERACING WAS KING!!!!!!!! R.I.P.
The greatest all around player ever. He could do it all. I'm sure he lost at least a hundred home runs due to military service and playing the in the horrendous winds of Candlestick Park. Rest in peace Buck.
HE WAS THE GREATEST I EVER SAW PLAY, HE WAS THE GREATEST I BELIEVE TO EVER PLAY THE GAME....
God bless.
There are 5 on the Mt Rushmore of baseball. Willie Mays, Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, Mickey Mantle and Joe DiMaggio.
So true🥱
Ted Williams.
🙏🏽🙏🏽💪🏽⚾️
RIP to a Legend
May God bless him
Rip Willie Howard Mays Jr, you will be missed
Rest in Peace, Willie 😢
with those 2 missed seasons he may have broken Ruths record before Hank
Back in the day, they would put marginal players in left and right corner in left and right, instructions were, “Willie’, you got the rest!”
No better player ever wore #24
Does Wille have more home runs now? (when you add in the Negro leagues stats)
No.
@@TheBatugan77 Thanks for your reply. I was hoping you could elaborate more, so I wouldn’t have to ask you a follow-up questions.
Is it because Willie Mays did not hit any home runs in the Negro leagues?
or because the Negro league team will you pay for it specifically not included when they added it to the MLB stats? (just as past couple weeks)
This must’ve been produced in advance. There’s no way they could’ve compile this within 20 minutes of his passing.
"Willie Mays passing leaves giant hole in baseball's heart"
Does that mean baseball will die soon?
Gone But Never Forgotten ☝️💞
Think how many Homeruns he might have he missed two years of service in the army and played in Candlestick Park; where he Iost from 10 to 15 homeruns per year; multilpy that by 10 that is 100 to 150 homeruns he might have had. Also that the strong winds provented those homeruns, would have been hits hnstead of outs would have increase his life batting average at jeast 35 l points; there a lifetime batting average of 337 at least, maybe 342.🎉
Yes!!!!!