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Willie Mays’ last at bat is my earliest memory of my father as well. My dad said to me “I want you to look at the man at the plate… his name is Willie Mays and he is the best baseball player that ever played. I hope you will remember that you got to see him play.” He hit a groundout, but I do still remember it. I was delighted to find we had the same birthday too.
Baseball featured bigger in my childhood in a way that I wouldn't be able to describe to someone born after 1980; almost a real life “The Sandlot” movie. And it was something that my father and I shared even when not much else between us was working.
RIP, Willie. You were the best that ever played.
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Ken
1986 930 2016 R1200RS
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