The greatest player in baseball all around, he could hit, field, steal bases, run you name it he could do it!

@KevinMiller-xn5vu

5 ай бұрын

And without cheating, too (i.e. his Godson Barry Bonds).

@user-ln6hh3cu6y

3 ай бұрын

In an era when ball players drank, smoked, crushed hotdogs, and didn’t workout

@user-pk6oz3jd9v

Ай бұрын

Can you imagine his numbers if he didn’t miss 2 or 3 years because of military service. My favorite player as a boy, an absolutely amazing talent.

The all-time greatest baseball player.

The greatest player I ever saw, and along with the great Jim Brown, arguably the two most gifted athletes ever.

@vernpascal1531

Жыл бұрын

Along with Wilt.

@ldfreitas9437

9 ай бұрын

@@vernpascal1531 And two of them played in San Francisco. Mays and Wilt.

It was so much fun growing up in the East Bay and watching my hero, Willie Mays, play a better brand of baseball than anybody else. I would listen on my 6-transistor radio to Giants vs Dodgers games under the covers in bed. It was a rivalry that still goes on to this day. Thanks a lot, Willy. You're still the best.

@DeweyParrish-dn2zu

2 ай бұрын

Same here, we grew up in West Pittsburg!!!

Still the best all around player of all time. Day to day, year to year.

Lifelong Cardinals fan; I'm from that time. Willie's one of my all-time favorite players.

Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle, and Duke Snider: New York center fielders had names straight out of central casting.

@felixmadison5736

Жыл бұрын

Willie, Mickey and The Duke.

@gregoryjannone8280

Жыл бұрын

You can throw in DiMaggio for good luck.

@ldfreitas9437

9 ай бұрын

@@gregoryjannone8280 And Di Maggio started out with the San Francisco Seals of the PCL that really was the third major league before the 1950s, rated AAAA.

Thanks for including the two Mets highlings. In 1972 I was 8 and a huge Mets fan. I know he was no longer the same player and many feel he stayed too long, but I'm so glad I have the memory of seeing him play. When I think back to the 1973 WS, it still breaks my heart that his teammates couldn't get him a second WS ring as a retirement present.

@VengWarrior

4 ай бұрын

Mean 3 world series ring, Mays won two rings with the Giants

@pluggy86

4 ай бұрын

@@VengWarrior Unfortunately that’s not correct. He only won the WS in 1954, losing in 1951 & 1962. San Francisco had to wait until 2010.

Willie Mays took time away from baseball to serve in the U.S. Army 1952-1954. He would have probably ended up with 700 home runs.

@traviskoller

8 ай бұрын

Wrong he wouldve ended up with near 800 with those 3 seasons

@jayelbee1111

8 ай бұрын

​@traviskoller Nah, probably around 760-770 if were being honest; similar to Hank Aaron's 755. His prime years averaged around 35-40 home runs per season. Ken Griffey's playing style is similar to Willie Mays; he probably would have ended around 730-750 and a lot more Gold Gloves if had not he suffered injuries

@trapezemusic

7 ай бұрын

Please note that he actually missed 1 3/4 seasons while in the Army. He played the entire 1954 season. Had it not been for this interruption, he would have hit around 750 home runs!

I wish I could have seen Willie play. What a treat it would have been both in the field and at the plate.

Hit no. 2999 (9:25) was an HR against Montreal at Candlestick on a miserable night--foggy, windy, cold. Fans were blanketed into their seats; most had left for home. I was one of the few who stayed.

@ibaIIhog

Жыл бұрын

How old are u

Happy 90th Birthday Willie!!!!!

@ibaIIhog

Жыл бұрын

Is he alive

@KevinMiller-xn5vu

5 ай бұрын

​@@ibaIIhogYes he"s alive: he"s 92.

If Willie Mays hadn’t played in Candelstick he would have hit 800 home runs. He adjusted to the wind and started getting his homers with the wind blowing out towards right field.

@gordonbotten3671

9 ай бұрын

I have heard that Candlestick Park cost Mays about 180 homers where the wind blew hard and kept the ball in the park. Having sat in that miserable park I can believe that. Candlestick was built in the worst spot in The Bay Area.

@ldfreitas9437

9 ай бұрын

@@gordonbotten3671 Definitely for night games during the spring and summer. Day games were okay. Late summer things would get better. It ended up being a better football field with the nice fall weather in the Bay Area, at least until it would start to rain in late November and December. For Montana's last game as a 49er, it was a cold rainy Monday night December, 1992. Frank Gifford remarked that it was so cold, he couldn't believe it wasn't snowing.

@researcher3981

Ай бұрын

You bought into the hype like most people.

Interesting tidbit. Willie is the only man in MLB history to hit a home run in every inning from 1 to 16.

Curt Gowdy, (longtime sports announcer) once remarked that when he first interviewed Willie in the Giants dressing room, Mays' body was so lean and muscular that you could have lit a match on it! LOL!

Willy Mays rules. He’s got good stories he tells.

Happy birthday to the legend!

He was on the coach staff obviously. A legend

This is a great compilation of Willie’s highlights! Could you possibly get more old-time players’ highlights? Love seeing all these old highlights

@esportshighlights2457

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I could make videos for other even older players, but I doubt I'll be able to find as many clips.

To play back in the day,dang that would've been an experience

Been said charismatic player ,all 5 TOOLS!

Before strength and conditioning. Before sports nutrition. Before PEDs. An era when ball players drank, smoked, and crushed hotdogs. Mays was a phenom

I’m a yankee fan and my favorite player of all time is Mick. But the best baseball player in the history of the major leagues is Willie Mays and really there is no doubt

A True GOAT! Griffey Jr was great but when I saw Mays leap over Bobby Bond's head to make a catch Mays is the GOAT.

@buddythelittletinyrescuedo5114

2 жыл бұрын

Mays or Mantle? Thats a tough one.

@researcher3981

Жыл бұрын

Do your research, DiMaggio was a better hitter, a better power hitter, and had more put-outs per 9 innings than Mays..And comparing common parks they both hit in Sportsman (St.Louis) and Shibe/Connie Mack (Phil)..DiMaggio 988 ab's Mays 1349 DiMaggio leads in every cattagory BA..355-.311 OBP .436-.392 SA.663-.552 OPS1.099 .943 HR% .0888-.0489 (72 hr's vs 16 hr's) and DiMaggio had the lowest SO% of any player who hit over 200 HR's in history! DiMaggio (.05%)..Mays (.13445) Fielding PO's per 9 inn DiMaggio 2.69 Mays 2.6 FA DiMaggio +4 vs league ave..Mays +0 Without question Joe DiMaggio is the Goat! If not for playing in Yankee Stadium, he would have hit 700 hr's if he played as long as Mays

@vernpascal1531

Жыл бұрын

@@researcher3981 It's relative you do realize Mays was going up against Koufax,Drysdale,Bunning,Veale etc. Not a load of Tobacco Chewing Hillbillies that weren't nearly as good some 20 years before. If Mays hit off those dudes and was not in Candlestick he would have hit 800 homers!

@researcher3981

Жыл бұрын

Your showing some of your inherent inability, to look at and understand all the facts. Some people just don't have a cognative ability....much is to blame on the communists controlled Public School System, thus its not all your fault

@researcher3981

Жыл бұрын

Mays was the best overall during his time, but he wasn't the best defensively, several were better, but they couldn't hit like Willie, with his power. Paul Blair (Baltimore) Mickey Stanley (Detroit) were better, and Curt Flood (St.Louis) was as good with the glove. Mantle didn't have the legs defensively, but hit as well with the power

Candlestick before it was enclosed was a different park. I never saw Seals Stadium, but it was a better park for baseball. Too bad Candlestick ever got built in the first place. It ended up being a better football stadium than one for baseball. Glad that Oracle got built eventually. Mays was great anywhere though.

Simply the greatest all around ballplayer ever!!!

If he didn't have to do 2 years in the Army and if he would have played in a different ball park he would have hit 800 HRS in his career.

@trapezemusic

7 ай бұрын

Too bad he missed 1 3/4 seasons while in the Army. Good point about being at a disadvantage while playing at windy, cold Candlestick Park for so many years.

@vernpascal1531

4 ай бұрын

@@trapezemusic he hit 52 in 1965 at Candllestick. How many did he lose due to the wind? I guess we'll never know though 10-15 doesn't seem much of a stretch.

@user-pk6oz3jd9v

Ай бұрын

He also played in the polo grounds which was short down the lines but quickly got much deeper in the power alleys and center, ranging from 403 to 505 feet-483 ft dead center, a massive park where many would be HRs were outs in that park.

I recently read his 2010 biography by James Hirsch. It was excellent. I think it was called Wille Mays The Life the Legend.

The GREAT WILLIE MAYS played most of his in CANDLE STICK PARK which was not conducive for hrs,yet he would hit as many as 50 in a season..

I walked to Scottsdale Stadium circa 1990 and no one but me came to this intersquad game. Sat down by myself and am watching batting practice and a reporter interviews him at the backstop, right in front of meand he had a very cool vibe.

Hey dude, I made a Willie Mays video of my own and I have to say yours is a lot better than mine. Good job on this video👍

@esportshighlights2457

2 жыл бұрын

Just checked yours out and its great as well!!

@dominickclaflin5295

2 жыл бұрын

@@esportshighlights2457 thanks dude

Imagine MAYS playing his career in parks likr WRIGLEY FIELD, and current parks like PHILADELPHIA, HOUSTON, ATLANTA, CINCINNATI, he would have hit over 800 hrs.

Career highlights for Mays? What, a two hour video (at least)?

🐐

Amazing that Mays only won 1 World Championship, in 1954.

@ldfreitas9437

9 ай бұрын

1965 Marichal lost his temper because Roseboro of the Dodgers threw the ball back to Koufax and nicked his ear. He gets suspended for a week, and the Dodgers win the pennant by one game. Same in 1966. I'm sure the Giants would have won the WS in both '65 and '66. In 1962, game 7 WS, that liner by McCovey, if it was a bit higher. Mays had a chance to hit a two run walk off homer when he got up, but he doubled, sending Matty Alou to third after his bunt. Then that liner to Richardson! 1-0 Yankees.

My favorite players team 1-Altuve 2b 2-Clemente RF 3-Mays Cf 4-Aaron LF 5-Edgar 3b 6-Reggie DH 7-Delgado 1B 8-Ivan Rodriguez C 9-Lindor ss Rotation 1-Ryan 2-Bob Feller 3-Randy Johnson 4-Mike Scott 5-Noah Syndergaard Bullpen Edwin Díaz Ken Tekulve Rollie Fingers Roberto Hernandez Dave Smith Rich Goosage Javier Vazquez Rafi Montalvo Jose Berrios

Pete, MJ,

1:28 April 30th,1961!

wish we could get some AI improved old baseball footage

Lou Gehrig. And Willie Mays. Flip a coin to decide the best ever.

@researcher3981

Жыл бұрын

With a bat in their hand, nobody compairs to Ruth period! Gehrig comes in 3rd behind Williams as far as lefthanded batters are concerned. Offensively Hornsby #1 live ball righthanded hitter, with Foxx close enough behind. DiMaggio every bit as good as Mays as a overall righty. But with the fielding and ability to steal bases, along with the batting, Mays' close competion is Cobb

@CaryG6666

11 ай бұрын

Mays: best ever, and best there will ever be. Hit for power, hit for average, stole bases, caught everything in the outfield, threw out runners or kept them from advancing - a true 5-tool player, excelling at every skill. If he’d played in any park other than Candlestick, and hadn’t missed time with military service, he’d be the HR king to this day.

@JoshGibson-fb7mf

8 ай бұрын

Gehrig overrated

Dad Archangel Michael writing this to Willie Michael Chester Junior Willie Mays is you Willie Michael Chester Junior

You can throw in DiMaggio for good luck.

Dad Michael the archangel writing this to son Willie Michael Chester Junior inside Dad Michael the archangel Willie Mays is you

I was born in 1955, in the Bay area!!! Growing up I didn't care about Mickie Mantel or anyone else!!! Except for WILLIE MAYS!!! All I knew was when WILLIE MAYS got up, you could expect to see a HOME RUN!!! if i could meat anyone, WILLIE MAYS would be the man!!!! Next would be DONALD TRUMP!!!!!!

Mike trout before Mike trout.

@ldfreitas9437

9 ай бұрын

Trout couldn't hold Mays' jock strap!

This is just a innocent question,I mean no harm by my question.the white fans loved Willie mays. here is my question I wonder if the white fans would have been as ugly and prejudice against Willie Mays breaking babe Ruth homerun record as the hate and prejudice that Hank Aaron received breaking babe Ruth home run record.strangely I don't think Mays would have received as much hate.

@deneenjeffries2768

Жыл бұрын

I agree and I really don’t know why because Hank was a very lovable person. Mays was more of a character.

@researcher3981

Жыл бұрын

your correct...It's not Aaron's fault, but he was given the park to hit those 376 ft hr's, whereas May's was sent to San Francisco with the damp cold air. No question about it, Mays was a better power hitter than Aaron although their hr % is identical, switch home parks and May's would have hit 60+ hr's, and Aaron 60 less

@CaryG6666

11 ай бұрын

All due respect to Aaron: great player and by all accounts a great person. But Mays was and will always be the best ever.

@user-pk6oz3jd9v

Ай бұрын

@@researcher3981don’t forget the first Polo Grounds before Candlestick, was a massive park. Short down the lines but quickly got deep, 483 to dead center…power alleys and center ranged 403 to 505ft. Forget stats, I was lucky enough to see him play a lot and the visual test tells me he was the best all around. As far as comments about Aaron, it’s maddening that anyone sent hate mail, but fortunately, i could be wrong, but it seemed apparent that it was possibly the noisy idiotic minority of fans and that the silent majority loved him. Atlanta fans went crazy with excitement when he broke the record and so did many fans all over. All my friends had fun talking about it at school. Aaron was better all around than what he was given credit for, but Mays was still the best that I saw.

Roberto was better and proved it.supporting cast was mediocre but still won two ws,willie none.say hey also played at candlestick,his stats would be 35% more.