Kruk: We all loved him, he was our guy. He was the guy who taught us the basket catch, and who didn’t try to catch the basket catch?

#SayHey #sfgiants
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I’m loving these tributes to the Negro Leagues and Willie Mays.

#sayHey #mlb #RickwoodField

This is now a hallowed number—and Major League Baseball must retire it. Have this number in every MLB ballpark next season, at the latest.

#RIP #WillieMays #24 #sayhey #NegroLeagues #MLB #NYGiants #SFGiants

🗣️ THE POLITICRAT #podcast: Willie Mays faced racism in San Francisco—he wasn’t welcomed initially including by white Giants fans, who booed Mays when he played as a Giant in 1958-early 60s. “It only took them five years”, he said. https://tinyurl.com/mvvrtjyn

#SFGiants #WillieMays #SanFrancisco #SayHey #racism

Sad to hear of Willie Mays' passing. I kept his everyday heroic example in mind during the dark days of the previous administration and the pandemic thx to having this song—"Our Song", by the great Joe Henry—in heavy rotation. May it and Willie be a bright, shining light, especially in the dark days, when next they come

"This was God's country
This frightful and this angry land
But if it's his will
The worst of it might still
Somehow make me a better man"

RIP #sayhey

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