Beloved baseball icon ends 22-year MLB career with 660 home runs
Willie Mays, the iconic center fielder for the New York and San Francisco Giants whose legendary power earned him two MVPs and the 1954 World Series, has died at age 93.
“It is with great sadness that we announce that San Francisco Giants legend and Hall of Famer Willie Mays passed away peacefully this afternoon at the age of 93,” the San Francisco Giants said. shared on his official X account on Tuesday.
“My father died peacefully and surrounded by loved ones,” Mace's son, Michael Mace, told the San Francisco Chronicle. “I want to thank you all from the bottom of my broken heart for the unwavering love you have shown him over the years. You were his life blood.”
In 1979, Mays was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1979. On August 27, 1963, Mays hit his 400th home run at the Houston Astrodome and joined the elite 400 homer club. The baseball icon finished his 22-year Major League Baseball career with 660 home runs and 3,283 hits.
ESPN placed him at Number 8 on its list of the 100 Greatest Athletes of the 20th Century in 1999, behind Michael Jordan, Babe Ruth, Muhammad Ali, Jim Brown, Wayne Gretzky, Jesse Owens and Jim Thorpe.
Mays was a beloved icon from coast to coast and spent six years of his playing career in New York and 15 in San Francisco.
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