all roads lead to Rome

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Bewitched, Willie Mays

and play.


     (On this blog, it sometimes might seem like "all roads lead" to Bewitched.  
     Or to -- Bob Dylan....)


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Reader comments on NYT Willie Mays story --

raymond schulz
Kintnersville, Pennsylvania

Tuesday, August 7, 1956.  

Twi night doubleheader with the Phillies.  

My first major league game as a wide-eyed seven year old kid.  

We lost both ends of that doubleheader.  

Went into a state of mourning for a week.  

Our small group sat just to left of the left field foul pole, over that high wall.  Jackie Brandt was the rookie left fielder right under our eyes.  He was not our focus.  All seven of us kept chanting "Say, Hey, Say Hey".  After a number of those chants, number 24 took off his hat and waved at us....


Richard Katz
Tucson
Being a NY Yankees fan in the Bronx in the 1950s and 1960s I always argued that Mantle was better -- of course I was wrong.  We were blessed in NYC in those days in having Mantle, Mays and Snider playing center field in the same town.  We're rarely aware of how great things are until they're gone....


nyshrubbery
Brooklyn Heights
He likely would have surpassed Ruth for home runs if the Giants had not moved to San Francisco.  Candlestick Park was not a hitters' park, to say the least, in large part because of the climate.  

Candlestick Point had its own atmosphere; when the league checked it out for a ballpark site in the late 1950s, the city fathers were careful to give the tour early in the day, as conditions degraded quickly as the hours passed.  

I saw the Mets play an afternoon game there in 1985 with the knowledge that it could get cold.  Took a pullover sweater and a jacket, thinking I'd never need either -- it's 82 degrees.  Fifth inning, on goes the sweater.  8th inning, on goes the jacket.  Extra innings, 6 p.m. and I'm freezing.



B. Rupic
nara / greensville
that's called character building, innit?  i knew it was famously not hitter friendly....

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     I saw the "Bewitched" episode with Willie Mays in it when I was a child.  Samantha greeted him with "Say hey, Willie!" and I noticed that, I thought she was saying "Say hey" just because it was the Sixties and she was -- hip.  I didn't realize "Say hey" was a Willie Mays thing.
     Now, I get it.

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