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Willie Mays, NY and San Francisco Giants legend, dies at 93

Giants' Willie Mays poses for a photo during baseball spring training in 1972. Mays, the electrifying “Say Hey Kid” whose singular combination of talent, drive and exuberance made him one of baseball’s greatest and most beloved players, has died. He was 93. (AP Photo, File)
Giants’ Willie Mays poses for a photo during baseball spring training in 1972. Mays, the electrifying “Say Hey Kid” whose singular combination of talent, drive and exuberance made him one of baseball’s greatest and most beloved players, has died. He was 93. (AP Photo, File)
New York Daily News
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In memory's haze, Willie Mays is forever young, scampering to the farthest reaches of the Polo Grounds in pursuit of the longest out in baseball history. He is gone now, dead at 93, and it is an unarguable fact that nobody played the game with quite the flair of the man they called the "Say Hey Kid."

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