Bob Costas on Willie Mays’ Singular Greatness | The Rich Eisen Show

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  • Опубликовано: 19 июн 2024
  • Bob Costas and Rich Eisen discuss the passing of Baseball Hall of Famer Willie Mays.
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  • @eamonkelley3811
    @eamonkelley3811 Месяц назад +17

    Bob Costas is so great at talking baseball. A true historian of the game.

    • @marcdaddy33
      @marcdaddy33 Месяц назад +1

      He is great at talk8ng EVERYTHING sports. He made NBA on NBC so great because his introductions made the games larger than life

  • @bcask61
    @bcask61 Месяц назад +11

    Look at his games played. He was never hurt and almost never took a day off until he was 38-39 yo. Amazing.

  • @johnfarr2738
    @johnfarr2738 Месяц назад +8

    I could listen to Bob Costas talk Baseball for hours! Mays was before my time but I believe the era between 1945-1975-80 was probably the greatest era of Baseball! R.I.P. say Hey Kid Willie Mays!

  • @TravvyBear262
    @TravvyBear262 Месяц назад +12

    Spit game like Costas, I could listen to him talk about the golden age greats all day 🔥

    • @jkrasney1
      @jkrasney1 Месяц назад +2

      Costas is particularly pleasing to hear and listen, when speaking about Major League Baseball and Major League Baseball's historical value as well as the individual ballplayer's who set the highest standards for the values of Major League Baseball. Thank you Bob Costas in describing the valor of Willie Mays.

  • @clydeb7713
    @clydeb7713 Месяц назад +10

    Willie in his prime was the best who ever played center field and I was a Yankee fan growing up

  • @ericwollaston5654
    @ericwollaston5654 Месяц назад +6

    Thank you, Rich, for posting these great shorts! 👍

  • @t.s.9656
    @t.s.9656 Месяц назад +4

    I was at the last game of his career and I was the first person to get his autograph after game 7 of the 73 WS. He came out of the lower section of coliseum, I shook his hand and asked for his autograph. He told me to go to his car and there were dozens of people around it. I grabbed hold of his jacket, pressed my chest into his back, and we pushed our way through the crowd. I handed him my WS ticket stub (proof of his last game), and he signed it. Tickets were $10 for upper deck.

  • @oweuone6879
    @oweuone6879 Месяц назад +6

    Per Costas at 4:36, Ted Williams played for Baltimore which will be news to Orioles fans 😂

  • @joannepiatte4026
    @joannepiatte4026 Месяц назад +5

    When I was a kid in the 60's my dad was a big Giants fan. Before cable, KTVU channel 2 used to televise their games. We lived in San Leandro, not far from the city. Willie Mays was the best. I sometimes used to watch. Those were some good times. RIP Mr. Mays.

    • @thewkovacs316
      @thewkovacs316 Месяц назад

      At first, very few. When I was a kid, most games were only on radio. And they only showed away games.
      Lucky to have seen giants and mays play in 71
      I think it was against the cubs.

  • @user-mz8ye7qd2f
    @user-mz8ye7qd2f Месяц назад +1

    I love Bob’s knowledge and commentary about baseball as much as I love Shelby Foote’s knowledge and commentary about The Civil War.

  • @BellairDaTreyBaby3
    @BellairDaTreyBaby3 Месяц назад +1

    Good to see Bob.. would have love to hear his feelings on the 1994 June 17th commentary.

  • @christhompson6010
    @christhompson6010 Месяц назад +6

    mays made baseball popular for people who didn't even care about it for all races. not a player in the history of the game had the impact mays had . man women young old black white. he could do it all and with a flair that no one could touch and ever will. i thought baseball was boring and my mom in the 60,s said i'm going to take you to see willie mays. and that's all it took. feel so sorry for those who never got to see him on the field. the stuff that he did is burned in to my mind forever

  • @chrisphillips348
    @chrisphillips348 Месяц назад

    My fave player ever. I was a tiny kid when he played for the Mets in WSeries

  • @abc-bu7nr
    @abc-bu7nr Месяц назад

    I loved Saturday afternoons when Curt Gowdy & Tony Kubek called MLB game of the week back in the 60's.
    Watching Wille Mays and Willie McCovey play was like watching actual giants.

  • @user-cv1vk9hb5d
    @user-cv1vk9hb5d Месяц назад

    I saw Mays play in his rookie year. I can't remember much since I was two years old.

  • @paulholbrook7315
    @paulholbrook7315 Месяц назад +6

    SAY HEY!.......RIP..............

  • @jamesmoffatt6430
    @jamesmoffatt6430 Месяц назад

    I agree wholeheartedly with Bob's comments about the greatness of not only Willie, but his incredible contemporaries: Mantle, Aaron, Clemente, Robinson, Snider, Musial, Williams. It doesn't diminish their greatness, in any way, to say that Willie is the best all-around-player in MLB history. For me, Willie Mays--my childhood hero--was baseball. He was "born to play ball," and he played it brilliantly and charismatically at a level all his own. Memo to MLB: retire #24.

  • @VikingsFan-iu5kq
    @VikingsFan-iu5kq 20 дней назад +1

    Willie Mays is the GOAT !

  • @Chiroman527
    @Chiroman527 Месяц назад +3

    R.I.P Say Hey Kid!! The best Ball player I ever saw. He was the first 5 Tool Player !! Mickey Mantle, probably would have been as great or even greater had he not stepped on the Yankee stadium Drain in 1951 or 1952 (?) . That tore up his knee that today would have been surgically repaired. MM suffered with that affliction of a torn meniscus and either a MCL or ACL tear. From my recollection, MM was the fastest player down the first baseline from Home plate at 3 Seconds (batting Lefty). And of course, he was later ruined by Whitey Ford and Billie by alcohol - up to 2 six packs a day!!

  • @Ohyeahjiful
    @Ohyeahjiful Месяц назад

    Rest in peace Willie! I first saw him @the old Tokyo Stadium in March 21, 1970. Willie got 3 hits, and Sadaharu Oh hitting the Game ending Sayonara HR!! That game made me a big baseball fan! Coincidence?? Willie Mays pass away in 20and24!!

  • @jimzezza6915
    @jimzezza6915 Месяц назад +1

    Mays lived so long that it's hard to find people who actually saw him play right from the beginning. Costas wasn't even born when Mays broke in the majors.

  • @MaRkYWaHoO
    @MaRkYWaHoO Месяц назад +1

    Rip Willy🙏🏻 Go Chiefs

  • @user-bq6sq9cm7x
    @user-bq6sq9cm7x Месяц назад

    We forget that Mays lost 120 games in 1952 and all of 1953 due to military service. Surely 700 career homers were in his reach.

  • @prisonersforprofit
    @prisonersforprofit Месяц назад

    mays and mantle were the best two all-around players ever in the modern era. i would call the modern era the integrated era, both willie and hank played in the negro leagues but thanks to jackie robinson and branch rickey the mlb door was open for them... as i'm sure most boston red sox fans know, they got first shot at willie but their owner tom yawkey was hold out segregationist. willie played two of the toughest parks to hit home runs, had he played in boston he'd have hit 800 home runs.

  • @josephfalchetta3845
    @josephfalchetta3845 29 дней назад

    death, taxes, and Bob Costas showing off using big words.

  • @ronniebishop2496
    @ronniebishop2496 Месяц назад +3

    Willie was great. But I guess nobody will ever break Babe Ruth’s records, on hitting. Willie was the best fielder of all.

    • @joannepiatte4026
      @joannepiatte4026 Месяц назад +4

      Willie Mays was better than the Babe. All around player not just a home run hitter.

    • @ronniebishop2496
      @ronniebishop2496 Месяц назад

      @@joannepiatte4026 Well if you check Willie went to bat many many more times that Babe and Hank Aron went to the plate 2800 more times to reach the Babes records? So let’s not get carried away by emotions and use baseball stats, ok

    • @toga1022
      @toga1022 Месяц назад

      Totally, Mays was excellent, but he was no Babe Ruth, he had more opps to hit then Babe . . . duh . . .simple math. Mays was not as good as Babe Ruth period.

    • @ronniebishop2496
      @ronniebishop2496 Месяц назад

      @@toga1022 Well especially hitting!

    • @billyv321
      @billyv321 Месяц назад +1

      ⁠@@joannepiatte4026apparently you are unaware that Ruth was also an excellent pitcher

  • @user-vx5qg7hj5t
    @user-vx5qg7hj5t Месяц назад

    All due respecto willie mays god may bless he soul but the best player all around in baseball history is Alex Rodriguez

  • @toga1022
    @toga1022 Месяц назад +1

    Mays was great, but he did not have the style or grace of Joe D. or the style of Babe Ruth.

    • @garyspence2128
      @garyspence2128 Месяц назад +5

      Says you...Support your heroes, and I'll support mine. That's cool. But never mention style or 'grace' on the diamond, and act like Willie Mays fell short in those particulars compared to anyone. I'm sure you have your 'reasons', but this isn't the time to examine those. Just be grateful that you had the privilege to watch these Hall of Famers.

    • @Aalender
      @Aalender Месяц назад +2

      Many guys considered the best didn’t even play against even competition NBA MLB NFL - Willie came in and dominated when he wasn’t wanted - let’s be clear there are levels and everyone knows this - Willie and Hank are the best to ever do it under the circumstances…… It all matters

    • @jamesanthony5681
      @jamesanthony5681 Месяц назад +1

      Mays had his own grace and his own style that neither Joe D nor Ruth possessed.

  • @matthewlaird5235
    @matthewlaird5235 Месяц назад

    Im surprised that Bob didn’t use this as an opportunity to preach about anti gun legislation.

    • @user-cv1vk9hb5d
      @user-cv1vk9hb5d Месяц назад +4

      I am not surprised that cultists use a tribute to a player to spew idiocy.

    • @brucegelman5582
      @brucegelman5582 17 дней назад

      Grow up

  • @joemorris2886
    @joemorris2886 Месяц назад +1

    Bob is a radical liberal Democrat. He says Trump voters are stupid.

    • @Anthony-hu3rj
      @Anthony-hu3rj Месяц назад +4

      What's wrong with you?

    • @user-cv1vk9hb5d
      @user-cv1vk9hb5d Месяц назад +1

      Bob probably thanks you for these compliments. I hope you meant them as such.

    • @jackinthewoodsii8653
      @jackinthewoodsii8653 Месяц назад +1

      Costas speaks the Truth !

    • @joemorris2886
      @joemorris2886 Месяц назад

      @@jackinthewoodsii8653 Are you woke? What's today's pronoun?

    • @clydeb7713
      @clydeb7713 Месяц назад +1

      Aren't they?