Baseball's oldest living Hall of Famer, Willie Mays, died Tuesday at 93 years old, two days before MLB was set to stage a historic game in his native Alabama.
Willie Mays, who had 24 All-Star Game appearances in a major league career that spanned four decades, died Tuesday at 93. He was baseball's oldest living Hall of Famer.Mays hit 660 home runs, stole 339 bases, and batted .301 from 1948-73 with the Birmingham Black Barons, New York/San Francisco Giants, and New York Mets. He led the Giants to their last World Series championship in New York in 1954 and was inducted to the Hall of Fame in 1979.
He missed the entire 1953 season after he was drafted by the Army to serve in the Korean War but never saw active duty.In 1954, Mays batted a major league-leading .345 while hitting 41 home runs and driving in 110 runs en route to a National League MVP award. That October, he led the Giants to their first championship since 1933.
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