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11 hours ago · Induction. 1979. Vote. 94.7% (first ballot) Willie Howard Mays Jr. (May 6, 1931 – June 18, 2024), nicknamed " the Say Hey Kid ", was an American professional baseball center fielder who played 23 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, Mays was a five-tool player who began his career ...
11 hours ago · OK, I suppose it’s a bit macabre to suggest that news of Willie Mays’ passing at age 93 was good in any way; but in the midst of this unrelentingly nasty presidential election race, we were ...
11 hours ago · Many who saw him play say he was the greatest all around performer ever in the Big Leagues. Who could argue with that? The man was as spectacular in the field as he was at bat. It is doubtful that any player embodied the fivetool evaluation more than Willie Mays: 1. Consistently hitting for average. (His career average was .302). 2.
11 hours ago · He wrote five baseball books, including the New York Times bestseller with Willie Mays “24: Life Stories and Lessons from the Say Hey Kid” and Rickey Henderson's autobiography, ...
11 hours ago · For all the hype, private equity, while previously uncommon, is not a wholly new entrant in sports. Providence Equity Partners was an initial investor in the YES Network in 2002; Forstmann Little acquired sports agency powerhouse IMG in 2004 (Pyne ran the agency during this period), selling it nine years later; and CVC Capital Partners acquired Formula One in 2006, unloading it a decade later.
11 hours ago · Mays was the National League's honorary captain for the game. The 30-minute raw interview recently came to light. The conversation covers several topics, including 'The Catch' in Game 1 of the 1954 World Series, the time Mays spent playing as a Birmingham Black Baron as a teenager, what he learned from his time in the Negro Leagues and how he earned the 'Say Hey' nickname.
11 hours ago · Ended up being the most I've scanned in a month all year by a roughly 400 card margin. Only 50 of the people were new to my collection, which is actually a bit lower than I expected, and 14 of those people came from the blaster of Hoops Winter that I wrote about in my last post. Only two other people joined my collection in the month of June ...
