SF Giants fans who were fortunate enough to see Willie Mays play say they’ll never forget him.
SAN FRANCISCO – Willie Mays was approaching the midway point of what would be an illustrious 23-year MLB career in 1962 when Steve Malcoun and his Little League team from Stockton got a chance to see him play live on a trip to Candlestick Park.
Still, 49 years after his retirement, the Say Hey Kid’s feats on the baseball diamond are remembered with awe by those who got to see him play in person, particularly during his tenure in San Francisco where he cemented his status as one of the greatest players of all time. “I probably didn’t talk to him the first couple of times he came just because I was a young guy and I figured, let the other guys talk to him,” Crawford said. “I thought it was just cool that he was there. Eventually, I worked up the courage to just at least introduce myself and talk to him and he already knew who I was, so I thought that was really cool.
Giants fan Michael Doyle, 68, of Carmel estimated that he saw Mays play at Candlestick in the late 1960s when his status as one of the game’s greatest players had already been established. In 1968, when Mays turned 37, he still had 79 RBIs with a .860 OPS in 498 at-bats over 148 games. Pechner said he used to deliver the Marin Independent-Journal as a kid and if a month went by without any complaints or missed deliveries, he would receive a free ticket to a Friday night game at Candlestick.
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