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Willie Mays

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Willie Mays
Mays in 1961
Center fielder
Born: May 6, 1931 (age 88) Westfield, Alabama
Batted: Right Threw: Right
MLB debut
May 25, 1951, for the New York Giants
Last MLB appearance
September 9, 1973, for the New York Mets
MLB statistics
Batting average	.302
Hits	3,283
Home runs	660
Runs batted in	1,903
Stolen bases	338
Teams
Negro leagues Birmingham Black Barons (1948–1950) Major League Baseball New York / San Francisco Giants (1951–1952, 1954–1972) New York Mets (1972–1973)
Career highlights and awards
24× All-Star (1954–1973) World Series champion (1954) 2× NL MVP (1954, 1965) NL Rookie of the Year (1951) 12× Gold Glove Award (1957–1968) Roberto Clemente Award (1971) NL batting champion (1954) 4× NL home run leader (1955, 1962, 1964, 1965) 4× NL stolen base leader (1956–1959) Hit 4 home runs in one game on April 30, 1961 San Francisco Giants No. 24 retired San Francisco Giants Wall of Fame Major League Baseball All-Century Team Major League Baseball All-Time Team
Member of the National
Baseball Hall of Fame
Induction	1979
Vote	94.7% (first ballot)

Willie Howard Mays, Jr. (born May 6, 1931), nicknamed "The Say Hey Kid", is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) center fielder who spent almost all of his 22-season career playing for the New York/San Francisco Giants, before finishing with the New York Mets. He is regarded as one of the greatest baseball players of all time and was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1979.

Mays won two National League (NL) Most Valuable Player (MVP) awards, he ended his career with 660 home runs—third at the time of his retirement and currently fifth all-time—and won a record-tying 12 Gold Glove awards beginning in 1957, when the award was introduced.^[1]

Mays shares the record of most All-Star Games played with 24, with Hank Aaron and Stan Musial.^[2][3] In appreciation of his All-Star record, Ted Williams said "They invented the All-Star Game for Willie Mays."^[4][5]

Mays' career statistics and his longevity in the pre-performance-enhancing drugs era have drawn speculation that he may be the finest five-tool player ever, and many surveys and expert analyses, which have examined Mays' relative performance, have led to a growing opinion that Mays was possibly the greatest all-around offensive baseball player of all time.^[6] In 1999, Mays placed second on The Sporting News's "List of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players", making him the highest-ranking living player. Later that year, he was also elected to the Major League Baseball All-Century Team. Mays is one of five National League players to have had eight consecutive 100-RBI seasons, along with Mel Ott, Sammy Sosa, Chipper Jones, and Albert Pujols. Mays hit over 50 home runs in 1955 and 1965, representing the longest time span between 50-plus home run seasons for any player in Major League Baseball history. His final Major League Baseball appearance came on October 16 during G