On Tuesday, players and fans of baseball joined together to honor and remember MLB legend Willie Mays.
Tuesday marked Mays’s quiet passing at the age of 93. The news was shared by the San Francisco Giants on X through a post.
Soon after word of Mays’ passing spread, a flood of condolences from prominent figures in sports reached him.
On social media, former MLB players Derek Jeter, Jose Canseco, CC Sabathia, and Frank Thomas honored Mays.
The news of Mays’ passing broke while a number of MLB clubs were still in action. A few shows were able to pay tribute to Mays live.
It took a moment for veteran Giants announcer Jon Miller to inform the audience of the news. A year after Mays’s retirement, former MVP and current Mets commentator Keith Hernandez offered a touching memory from his time as the “Say Hey Kid.”
Mays also received love from some other notable figures.
Mays has more accomplishments than any other player in MLB history. Over the course of his two-decade career, Mays received 24 All-Star selections and two NL MVP honors. In addition to winning the batting title in 1954 during his first MVP season, he led the league in home runs four times.
From 1951 to 1972, Mays played for the Giants, where he spent the most of his playing career. Prior to the team’s 1958 relocation to San Francisco, Mays began his Major League Baseball career in New York.
In the middle of the 1972 season, Mays was dealt to the New York Mets. After the 1973 campaign, he became a 42-year-old retired. The jersey of Mays has been retired by the Giants and the Mets.