#willie mays

Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That's baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, 'I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.' ↗

— Ernie Harwell

#brilliant #catch #consider #doomed #earth

I want to establish myself as the first Eric Davis, not the next Willie Mays. ↗

— Eric Davis

#eric #establish #first #i #mays

They invented the All-Star game for Willie Mays. ↗

— Ted Williams

#all-star game #game #invented #mays #willie

With the Giants I broadcast the debut of Hall of Famer Willie Mays. ↗

— Ernie Harwell

#debut #giants #hall #i #mays

Come on, when does it come to the point where your name can't come up in trade talks? Willie Mays got traded. Pedro Martinez got traded. So what? That's part of the game. ↗

— Eric Davis

#does #game #got #martinez #mays

I've been hearing this since I first joined the Reds organization, that I'm going to be the next this or that. It's tough on a young player coming up. You show some positive things and everybody jumps on that and says you should be the next Willie Mays. ↗

— Eric Davis

#coming #everybody #first #going #hearing

Willie Mays was the best ever. When I was in college I once made a catch like the one Mays made over his head. Sometimes when I'm lying in bed at night I think about it. It still makes me warm. ↗

— David Duchovny

#bed #best #catch #college #ever