SFGATE: Paying homage to the Greatest: Willie Mays
Paying homage to the Greatest: Willie Mays"
Published on February 28, 2018 at 03:18AM by By Ann Killion
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Some day, in the future, it will probably be Buster Posey or Madison Bumgarner sitting at a table during spring training, eyesight nearly gone, an assistant bringing food, talking about the old days. And a far-off generation of sports writers will shyly pay their respects to the players they worshipped as children. (Yes. I firmly believe that baseball, spring training and sports writers will still exist, many decades into the future.) But for now, for me, it’s Willie Mays sitting in the Giants clubhouse in Scottsdale. Cracking jokes. Scolding youngsters. The greatest living ballplayer. Check that. No qualifications. The greatest ballplayer in history.
Published on February 28, 2018 at 03:18AM by By Ann Killion
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Some day, in the future, it will probably be Buster Posey or Madison Bumgarner sitting at a table during spring training, eyesight nearly gone, an assistant bringing food, talking about the old days. And a far-off generation of sports writers will shyly pay their respects to the players they worshipped as children. (Yes. I firmly believe that baseball, spring training and sports writers will still exist, many decades into the future.) But for now, for me, it’s Willie Mays sitting in the Giants clubhouse in Scottsdale. Cracking jokes. Scolding youngsters. The greatest living ballplayer. Check that. No qualifications. The greatest ballplayer in history.
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