You know you're a legend when you get that kind of emotion out of people 51 years after you retired. Not just those who knew him, but fans like me, who aren't even old enough to have seen him play. I was 1 when he retired.
Thank you, WILLIE MAYS for doing your part to help tame mankind with your gift, talent, grace and to help level baseball's playing field. You will always be beyond what we know as an icon. Your legacy is sealed and cannot be undone.
I may be a Dodger fan, but this hurts. This really hurts right now. He lived up to 93, but it’s always difficult to put into words how special he was and how kind and fun the legend was to his fans and acquaintances alike. Sending lots of love to the Mays extended family during this difficult time.
My Uncle loved the Say Hey Kid. It feels like the end of a generation of legends. How we could only get a few more minutes with our idols to tell them what they meant to us. I know my Uncle might be up there greeting Willie on his long journey home. Thank you Willie for all you have done to make baseball what it is today. Rest with the best and godspeed
Rest in peace willy mays hey kid. You’ll always be remembered for your amazing baseball career historic moments in history and as a role model icon and friend to all also Barry bonds god father gone but never forgotten amen 🙏
Very sad to lose two hall of fame players in two different sports in about one week time in basketball Jerry West and in baseball Willie Mays Both are very classy people
My first sports hero. I remember being eight years old, just discovering baseball and watching my first MLB all-star game during in the 1965 season. This one black player was introduced and the crowd immediately jumped to their feet with a rousing standing ovation that lasted a while. Growing up black in the Deep South during those years of segregation and racial tensions, l was amazed by the respect shown for that black man at that time in history amongst all that turmoil. This was still less than twenty years since Jackie Robinson was initially disrespected in every way possible. That player was Willie Mays. Back in those days we only had two (clear) television channels and one tv game a week, so whenever l saw Willie Mays (maybe once or twice a season) it was something special.
Rest in peace to the, “Say Hey Kid”… A true legend across all generations, races, and sports… What a life and career as a player, a man and an ambassador of the game. We are all lucky to have lived in the same era as that great man.
My favorite player as a kid. I loved pretending to be him during neighborhood games. Greatest all around player in my opinion. I wish he was still around, but he lived a good, long life and it might be fitting, in a way, that the great #24 waited until ‘24…RIP Willie
At least there is a current Willie alive and kicking in the majors today carrying on the legacy of the prestigious Willie name brand in the Minnesota Twins Willi Castro.
@@BigJoeGun3455 Why would you say that to me? Willie Mays has passed away and to think of you to say something like that is too weird for me to make sense of it. Willi Castro is a good name and for him to continue to play in the majors and to not get in any legal trouble is a great achievement in itself. Whenever people recognize him they will remember the great Willie Mays and all of the novel things he had done to grow the game of baseball and to a degree continue the social progress of not only blacks but the other minority baseball players that its possible to play in the majors if you continue to work hard and to believe in the talent you bring.
To compare the two is asinine. The only thing they have in common is baseball. They don’t spell their names the same, no one will ever think of Willi Castro and then think of Willie Mays and much less likely the other way around. Stop comparing the two. It just doesn’t make sense
