Willie Mays

[juilmuel224]

Great book - "Willie Mays The Life the Legend" Seems he was making the most incredible catches for quite some time before he reached the Majors. A real example of a class act through and through. There should be a movie about him. Greatest Player Ever!!!

[tellthetruthg]

This is what you don't see. Willie hits a single but he rounds first base like he's going for two, if the outfielder hesitates or bobbles the ball Mays in on second. If they make a clean pick up he's still on first. Mays put pressure on everyone every play of every game. His game was he had all 5 skills and not in small amounts. The GOAT

[MrHUNTER2320]

I'm related to Willie mays

[skywalker71903]

Mays Best player ever!!!

[illustrate100]

Willie was great even when he was older. The Giants with Mays, Marachel, McCovey, Bonds.......scary good.

[socoolbob]

Willie Mays will be at Copperfield's Books ... Petaluma ...

December 12 Copperfieldsbooksdotcom

[socoolbob]

Not only do some describe "the catch" as the Number One catch in World Series history was the important and irreplaceable significance of the fact that

NOONE had ever done something like that before ... in that situation.

It became the role model for the next excellent baseball players .. and every kid who could think positively ...

because he did it ... perhaps ... I CAN DO IT !!!

[bg23allday1]

willie is the best O:)

[TDTom7]

Most exciting play in baseball, a Willie Mays triple. I saw him hit his 512th home run at Candlestick to break Mel Ott's NL record on May 4, 1965.

[KevinBender55]

interviewing Willie for my other documentary The Golden Age of Baseball (currently unavailable) was a great highlight. Very nice guy and astounding player.

[7294smk]

I saw Willie Mays at Candlestick at 8 I saw him hit a home run at the Astrodome in 1965, and he signed my ball in 1991 at the Giants training camp. Some female reporter asked him about hitting four home runs in one game. He was explaining what happened and she said so the wind was blowing out. All around was dead silence.

[FRSFreeState]

Great player, great hitter and the greatest Defensive CF of all time

[bailinnumberguy]

23 Hall of Fame voters didn't vote for Mays in his year. You have to wonder what they were thinking.

[Zaetix]

why doesn't this video have any color lol...

[39rc6cf]

I've been a baseball fan since 1948 and without a doubt, Mays was the best ALL 'ROUND player I ever saw. And that includes Williams, DiMaggio, Aaron, Musial & Mantle.

[dabigtim]

Great great video. Mays was one of the best of all time. He was a 5 tool player and strong in all of categories. He had fun playing the game. Smiling and laughing. To this day, he still has one of the greatest arms of all time. He played the game the way it should be played.... with a lot of heart, hustle, and passion. Thank you for posting this video. Every kid out there playing ball today, should learn more about Willie Mays.

[BLong114]

Amazing player although if not constantly injured and an alcoholic Mantle would have been the best. He was timed faster than Mays ( Fastest time ever to first base ) and no one could hit a ball further than the Mick. Not to mention his triple crowns!

[Pandabearmadness]

if i could i would watch every single game he played in

[Pandabearmadness]

i love my giants. and i only see stories and not that many highlights of willie mays. is there any way i could watch all the games mays played in.

[keagleman21]

These guys would know. They saw the best. And Willie Mays was the best all round baseball player and one of the greatest baseball minds. It is too bad for baseball that he never managed a team after he retired. He was virtually for most of his career the on-field manager.

[keagleman21]

@keagleman21 PS - He also made another equally amazing bare handed catch off of a hot liner deep in left-center field off of Roberto Clemente at the baseball canyon known as Forbes Field.

[EeVvAaNn3]

Happy birthday, Willie!

[brandonwalker5]

willie mays best of the best

[hremdldw]

He would pay to see.

[hremdldw]

The catch Tsaisisbuying was talking about, think about thisBobby Bonds was a 25 foot long jumper in High School in Riverside California also Bobby could run like a deer Willie Mays went in to right center field and jumped up higher then Bobby catching the ball and knocking him self out in the process. As Iv'e stated in other post reguarding Willie Mays God broke the mold when Willie was born. Ty Cobb who lived in the bay area in the late 50's early 1960 said Willie was the only ball player

[gntluvr]

the goat

lets go giants

[Heidibear76]

@gntluvr LoL! Giants haven't won shit since 1954! LoL! Go Giants indeed! LoL!

[lucidbarrier]

The man at 0:46 can see into the future with those glasses.

[tsaisisbuying]

the catch off Bob Tolan where Mays dug his cleat into the chain link fence they had at Candlestick at the time, robbed the home run and fell to the ground knocking himself unconscious-while Bobby Bonds attempted to revive him.

Off course Mays held on to the ball?

"70 or "71 NBC Game of the Week.

A week doesn't go by when I'm not haunted by such brilliance.

Jerry Tsai is Buying

[millerbz]

I saw that as a kid!

[grabit1]

It was the first NBC Game of the Week in 1970. I watched it live. And Bobby Bonds pulling the ball out of Willie's glove and holding it aloft, to prove the out.

[ekimfloom]

Who could forget the Sey Hey Kid's last hurrah as he kneeled at home plate asking how in the hell Harrelson was called out in the '73 Series...

[socoolbob]

Happy Birthday Willie Mays!

5/06/09

[baskethoss]

Greatest player of all time...

[Kirok]

Man, ya GOTTA love that footage of Willie stroking an inside-the-park home run! He hit compressed-trajectory, cruise missile line drives, and he ran like a deer. He was a god.

[amazingjourneys]

nice job