Baseball legend Willie Mays, all-around great of America’s pastime, dead at 93

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In his prime, he could do it all on the baseball field. Mays was the epitome of what came to be known as a “five-tool player” – meaning he was exceptional at hitting for average, hitting for power, fielding, throwing and baserunning. “He could do everything and do it better than anyone else, with a joyous grace,” wrote New York Times sports columnist Arthur Daley.

Mays was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1979, his first year of eligibility, won the Most Valuable Player award twice and was named to the all-star team 24 times, a record shared only with Hank Aaron and Stan Musial. “My uncle would say every day, ‘You’re going to be a baseball player. You’re going to be a baseball player, and we’re gonna see to that,'” he said. “At 10, I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15, I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports.”

He returned to the Giants in 1954 and won the first of his two Most Valuable Player awards as he paced the Giants to a four-game World Series sweep of the Cleveland Indians. In the first game of that series, Mays pulled off The Catch, which remains one of the most memorable plays in baseball history.

“Mays never was to San Francisco what he was to New York,” wrote sportswriter Dick Young. “When the Giants moved to California, the San Francisco fans saw Mays as ‘of’ New York.”

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