willie mays

When I was a kid, and we'd go to watch the Giants play, we'd goof around like kids will do at a ballgame. But every time Willie Mays came to the plate, we had to stop goofing. "Watch,Willie's up!"

There are several statues of former Giants at Oracle Park, but one is central, the one of Willie Mays. You tell a friend, "I'll meet you at Willie Mays", and they know what you mean. Heck, the address of the park is 24 Willie Mays Plaza.

Comments

[Charlie Bertsch]

I meant to comment on this earlier.

I'm a little too young to have seen Willie play in a way that matters, though my earliest baseball memory, from the 1973 World Series, involves him.

But I bought his biography at Cooperstown when I was a baseball-mad second grader and read it many times over.

[Steven Rubio]

I remember as a kid that when I liked a biography, I too often read it over and over.

[Charlie Bertsch]

I hope your ankle heals well. Such a difficult part of the body.