{"id":2271115,"date":"2024-06-18T23:13:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T03:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/baseball-legend-willie-mays-passes-away-at-93\/"},"modified":"2024-06-18T23:17:47","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T03:17:47","slug":"baseball-legend-willie-mays-passes-away-at-93","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/baseball-legend-willie-mays-passes-away-at-93\/","title":{"rendered":"Baseball Icon Willie Mays Dies at 93"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbaseball-legend-willie-mays-passes-away-at-93%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2271115&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Willie \u2063Mays, the legendary baseball center fielder, passed away\u2063 at the age of 93, as announced by the \u200cSan Francisco Giants. Mays,\u200d regarded by ESPN as the greatest center fielder ever\u2063 due to his remarkable array of skills, had a stellar Major League Baseball career\u2064 from 1951 to 1973. He made 24 All-Star teams and ranked impressively in several all-time statistical categories, including\u2064 6th in home runs, 7th in runs scored, 12th in RBIs, and 13th in hits. Born in Alabama in 1931, Mays showcased \u2062his athletic prowess early and started his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-fighting-for-college-football-became-the-biggest-battle-of-my-career\/\" title=\"The College Football Fight: My Career's Ultimate Battle\">professional \u200ccareer<\/a> at\u2062 17 with the Birmingham\u2063 Black Barons. By 20, he broke into Major League Baseball, becoming one of its earliest black\u200c players.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/baseball\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Baseball<\/a> legend Willie Mays passed away on Tuesday afternoon, according to the San Francisco Giants. He was 93 years old.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is with great sadness that we announce that San Francisco Giants Legend and Hall of Famer Willie Mays passed away peacefully this afternoon at the age of 93,\u201d the team said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/40382540\/legendary-center-fielder-willie-mays-dies-93\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> that Mays had an \u201cunmatched collection of skills\u201d that made him \u201cthe greatest center fielder who ever lived.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mays made 24 All-Star teams during his Major League Baseball career \u2014 which spanned from 1951 \u2013 1973 \u2014 and finished 6th in all-time home runs (660), 7th in runs scored (2,068), 12th in RBIs (1,909), and 13th in hits (3,293), ESPN reported.<\/p>\n<p>Mays was born on May 6, 1931, in Alabama where he excelled at all the major sports early in life. He began his professional baseball career at only 17 years old when he joined the Birmingham Black Barons while he was still in high school. At 20, he became only the 10th black player in the league\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>He briefly had his career interrupted when he was drafted into the U.S. Army to fight in the Korean War in 1952. He returned to the Giants in 1954.<\/p>\n<p>Willie Mays\u2019 son, Michael Mays, said in a statement: \u201cMy father has passed away peacefully and among loved ones. I want to thank you all from the bottom of my broken heart for the unwavering love you have shown him over the years. You have been his life\u2019s blood.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">There will never be another quite like Willie Mays \ud83e\udde1 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/I95JW1buJF\">pic.twitter.com\/I95JW1buJF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SFGiants (@SFGiants) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SFGiants\/status\/1803234068747968680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 19, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cToday we have lost a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/say-what-leftists-ignoring-science\/\" title=\"SAY WHAT? Leftists Ignoring Science\">true legend<\/a>,\u201d said Giants Chairman Greg Johnson in a statement. \u201cIn the pantheon of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tigers-miguel-cabrera-joins-3000-hit-club\/\" title=\"Tigers\u2019 Miguel Cabrera Joins 3,000 Hit Club\">baseball greats<\/a>, Willie Mays\u2019 combination of tremendous talent, keen intellect, showmanship, and boundless joy set him apart. A 24-time All-Star, the Say Hey Kid is the ultimate Forever Giant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1712932862202000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0plT8RRdMy9XUpIhocnjQS\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe had a profound influence not only on the game of baseball, but on the fabric of America,\u201d he added. \u201cHe was an inspiration and a hero who will be forever remembered and deeply missed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Giants president and chief executive officer Larry Baer said that he fell in love with baseball because of Mays.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy childhood was defined by going to Candlestick with my dad, watching Willie patrol centerfield with grace and the ultimate athleticism,\u201d he said. \u201cOver the past 30 years, working with Willie, and seeing firsthand his zest for life and unbridled passion for giving to young players and kids, has been one of the joys of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baseball icon Willie Mays died at 93, the San Francisco Giants announced. The Hall of Famer passed away peacefully on Tuesday. &#8220;We announce with great sadness the passing of Giants legend Willie Mays,&#8221; the team stated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":2271116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/06\/1F68D11F-4CB1-48D3-A8AB-6178E63CC342-scaled.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2271115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/06\/1F68D11F-4CB1-48D3-A8AB-6178E63CC342-scaled.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2271115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2271116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2271115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2271115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2271115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}