“The Say Hey Kid” Willie Howard Mays Jr. (1931–2024) began his career in the Negro Leagues (1947) before joining the Major League’s New York Giants in 1951. Excepting time in military service ...

Willie played in some of those games. In addition to playing high school baseball ... and waved his hat in appreciation. By that time, Mays was 81 years old, but still, you could not know it ...

Willie Mays, arguably the greatest baseball player of all time ... He was often seen at the ballpark and on TV sporting the iconic black cap with SF lettering and he was swarmed by well-wishers ...