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Post by rtraincollector on Jun 19, 2024 1:48:26 GMT
May he rest in peace Willie Mays one of the great baseball player
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Post by firewood on Jun 19, 2024 3:12:28 GMT
May he rest in peace Willie Mays one of the great baseball player Wow, there was a man of true fame. Rest well, Willie.
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Post by david1 on Jun 19, 2024 5:27:53 GMT
One of my favorite baseball players (The say hey kid) of all time. One of the best also. R.I.P. Willie.
Dave
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Post by Adam on Jun 19, 2024 12:08:21 GMT
I was reading about it this morning. Sad to hear of his passing but he is leaving an amazing legacy and history for our country and the sport of baseball.
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Post by seayakbill on Jun 19, 2024 13:20:49 GMT
One of the all time greats for sure, 3 of my favorite baseball players when I was growing up in the 50's and 60's, Mays, Mantle, and Williams.
Bill
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Post by frankmulligan on Jun 21, 2024 1:10:10 GMT
Hard to see our heroes pass away.
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Post by atsda on Jun 21, 2024 4:08:36 GMT
Post by Adam on Jun 19, 2024 at 8:08am
“…Sad to hear of his passing but he is leaving an amazing legacy and history for our country and the sport of baseball.”
Agreed. Alfred
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Post by healey36 on Jun 21, 2024 11:13:23 GMT
Must have been an epic time to be a New York baseball fan, when Mantle, Snyder, and Mays roamed center field for the Yankees, Dodgers, and Giants respectively.
The thing about Mays is he played much of his stellar career at the Polo Grounds in New York, on a field where dead center was 483 feet to the wall. That's a huge amount of ground to cover, and he did it spectacularly. By comparison, dead center at the cracker-box that is the current Yankee Stadium is just 408 feet.
Mays was a terrific player and a joy to watch...there are few, if any, his equal in the current crop.
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Post by atsda on Jun 21, 2024 14:36:20 GMT
My wife and I have been going through boxes from the old house and I have been sending a classmate of mine in NYC my university memorabilia. This go around, I sent mostly basketball game and tournament programs, a student handbook and anniversary viewbook. He is really into this stuff, and I can no longer read it Included was a June 1973 Mets gameday program (against Atlanta). (I don’t recall anything about the game.) It featured a picture of Willie Mays, Hank Aaron and Mickey Mantle. I just got off the phone with my friend – needless to say, he was absolutely thrilled – he is a sports nut. The parcel reached my friend yesterday; it was in the mail around Willie Mays passing. Alfred
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Post by atsda on Jun 22, 2024 2:18:24 GMT
I had no idea of the photo being in the program, until my friend mentioned it. Alfred
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