 We want to take a moment to honor a legend from the baseball world, Hall of Famer, Willie McCovey. Around 8 o'clock, the San Francisco Giants announced that McCovey passed away peacefully this afternoon at the age of 80. A native of Mobile, Alabama, McCovey spent most of his 22-year career with the Giants. His first hit with the club began in 1959, a year in which he won the National League's Rookie of the Year Award, and it ran through 1973. During that time, the man famously nicknamed Stretch won the 1969 National League MVP Award. He led the National League or tied for the league lead in home runs three times, and he helped lead the 1962 Giants to the World Series, which they lost to the Yankees in seven games with McCovey famously lining out to end the series. McCovey would play his final four seasons with the Giants from 1977 through 1980, hitting the last 56 of his 521 career homers. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1986. Again, Willie McCovey was 80.