Alter | 93 Jahre (verstorben) |
Beruf | Baseballspieler |
Geburtsdatum | Mittwoch, 06. Mai 1931 |
Geburtsort | Westfield |
Todesdatum | Dienstag, 18. Juni 2024 |
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Beschreibung | Willie Howard Mays junior war ein US-amerikanischer Baseballspieler der New York Giants, San Francisco Giants und New York Mets in der Major League Baseball. Mays spielte die Position des Center Fielder und gewann in seiner langen Karriere einmal die World Series (1954), 21 Aufrufe ins All-Star Team, 12 Gold Gloves und zwei Titel des „Wertvollsten Spielers“ der National League. 1979 wurde er vom Veterans Committee mit 95 % der Stimmen in die Baseball Hall of Fame gewählt, und seine Trikotnummer 24 wird von den Giants nicht mehr vergeben. Der extrovertierte und für seine kindliche Freude beim Spiel bekannte Mays trug den Spitznamen „Say Hey Kid“. |
That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit.
In 1950, when the Giants signed me, they gave me $15,000. I bought a 1950 Mercury. I couldn't drive, but I had it in the parking lot there, and everybody that could drive would drive the car. So it was like a community thing.
Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.
I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time, then you really don't have a good life.
