The death of Willie Mays, baseball's oldest living Hall of Famer who many regard as the greatest player of all-time, elicited broad, heartwarming reactions
The death of Willie Mays on Tuesday at 93 elicited the kind of tributes rarely afforded a professional athlete. Mays was no ordinary athlete.Read more: Willie Mays Dies at 93; Was Baseball's Oldest Living Hall of FamerAccording to the San Francisco Giants, with whom Mays played the bulk of his Hall of Fame career, he received honorary degrees from Dartmouth, Miles College, Ohio State University, San Francisco State, and Yale University.
listed him eighth in its ranking of the top 50 athletes of the century.Against the backdrop of such widespread fame and acclaim, perhaps it's no surprise that Mays' death elicited reactions from a variety of celebrities inside and outside the world of sports on Tuesday.Former CCR lead singer/guitarist John Fogerty is a noted baseball fan who's demographically perfect to appreciate the prime of Mays' career.
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