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usonian

(19,892 posts) Mon May 6, 2024, 12:18 PM May 2024

Say Hey! Happy 93rd. Birthday, Willie Mays

There will be cake, but not the 569 pound cake he received for his 37th birthday and 569 home runs in 1968.

https://www.chron.com/sports/astros/article/Astros-Willie-Mays-birthday-cake-Astrodome-pound-15250872.php

I doubt that Judge Roy Hofheinz told Willie to finish his cake before he could eat his vegetables.

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Say Hey! Happy 93rd. Birthday, Willie Mays (Original Post) usonian May 2024 OP

If you have seen this or haven't seen this you are in for a treat. twodogsbarking May 2024 #1

Still get chills when I see that. Loved baseball back then. Of course, I was probably 9 or so. Silent Type May 2024 #3

I got to see Willie play in a double- header. He and Willie McCovey hit seven home runs I think, crushed the Pirates. twodogsbarking May 2024 #4

Guerrilla art the SF Bay Area woke up to in on Willie's 53rd birthday Brother Buzz May 2024 #7

He was a Faux pas May 2024 #2

I forgot that phrase. nevergiveup May 2024 #6

Give him a uniform and put him in the Giants lineup Auggie May 2024 #5

twodogsbarking

(15,150 posts)

1. If you have seen this or haven't seen this you are in for a treat.

Reply to usonian (Original post)

Mon May 6, 2024, 12:22 PM

May 2024

Silent Type

(10,668 posts)

3. Still get chills when I see that. Loved baseball back then. Of course, I was probably 9 or so.

Reply to twodogsbarking (Reply #1)

Mon May 6, 2024, 12:38 PM

May 2024

twodogsbarking

(15,150 posts)

4. I got to see Willie play in a double- header. He and Willie McCovey hit seven home runs I think, crushed the Pirates.

Reply to Silent Type (Reply #3)

Mon May 6, 2024, 12:42 PM

May 2024

Brother Buzz

(39,046 posts)

7. Guerrilla art the SF Bay Area woke up to in on Willie's 53rd birthday

Reply to twodogsbarking (Reply #1)

Mon May 6, 2024, 02:17 PM

May 2024

Thom 'Kid' Ross parked these on a hillside outside of Petaluma, California, on May 6, 1984, to commemorate Willie’s 53rd birthday

Later, he moved them to Wyoming

Ultimately, they got parked in New York, 460 feet from the Polo Grounds' home plate (There's a plaque marking home plate location)

https://www.si.com/more-sports/2009/09/29/thom-ross