24 days ’til Opening Day: Willie Mays
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Ther e are 24 days left until that best day of the year, MLB’s Opening Day.
24 was the number worn by Willie Mays , one of the greatest players to ever play the sport. He’s famous for being the “Say Hey” kid, for hitting 660 career home runs and for “the catch”, which is shown in the video above.
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Published 3/7/2008 by Alan Hull at Baseball Mastermind
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24 More Days until opening day as Obscure Sports Quarterly points out. Same as the number Willie Mays wore. That catch from the 1954 World Series was something else, wasn’t it? Willie May may be the second greatest player to ever play the game, depending on how you like Barry Bonds, Ted Williams and Honus Wagner.
If pressed, I’d go 1) Babe, 2) ...
