- Born
- Birth nameWillie Howard Mays
- Nicknames
- The Say Hey Kid
- Buck
- Height5′ 11″ (1.80 m)
- Willie Mays was born on May 6, 1931 in Westfield, Alabama, USA. He is an actor, known for About Last Night (2014), Ironside (1967) and The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950). He was previously married to Mae Louise Allen and Margherite Wendell Chapman.
- SpousesMae Louise Allen(November 27, 1971 - April 19, 2013) (her death)Margherite Wendell Chapman(February 14, 1956 - 1961) (divorced, 1 child)
- Remembered for his over-the-shoulder catch of a Vic Wertz fly ball in Game One of the 1954 World Series.
- Is generally regarded as the greatest all-around baseball player of all time.
- San Francisco Giants All-Time Total Bases Leader (5,907).
- San Francisco Giants All-Time Homerun Leader (646).
- San Francisco Giants All-Time Hits Leader (3,187).
- I don't compare 'em. I catch 'em.
- I remember the last season I played. I went home after a ballgame one day, lay down on my bed, and tears came to my eyes. How can you explain that? You cry because you love her. I cried, I guess, because I loved baseball and I knew I had to leave it.
- Youngsters of Little League can survive under-coaching a lot better than over-coaching.
- You know, a lot of people said when I was forty, I should quit, but I don't think so. You should play as long as you can and as long as you enjoy the game. In '73, I wasn't enjoying the game, so I quit in May, I retired, and they wouldn't let me retire. So I finished up in the World Series. But I say to players: Play as long as you can, because you only have one chance.
- Over the years, a lot of organizations have asked me to be their spokesman, or have wanted me to make speeches about my experiences as a black athlete, or to talk to Congressmen about racial issues in sports. But see, I never recall trouble. I believe I had a happy childhood. Besides playing school sports, we'd play football against the white kids. And we thought nothing of it, neither the blacks nor the whites. ... I never got into a fight that was caused by racism.
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