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Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

Giants at Rickwood: Honoring the life and legacy of Willie Mays

Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

NBC Sports Bay Area

Sports, Baseball, San Francisco Giants, Mlb

4.7824 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Alex Pavlovic and Laura Britt are joined by former Giants Brandon Crawford, Hunter Pence and Jake Peavy to discuss Willie Mays’ impact on baseball and their careers. Plus, hear from NBC Sports Bay Area analyst Randy Winn on meeting Mays for the first time, and broadcaster Dave Flemming discussing the legacy Mays leaves behind. (2:30) Peavy shares his favorite memory of Mays (5:10) Winn reflects on his time spent with Mays (8:22) Pence remembers his first meeting with Mays (12:50) Crawford on meeting Mays as a young child (14:40) Flemming details his friendship with Mays

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Giants Talk podcast.

0:09.0

Here's Alex Babovich and Cole Kuiper.

0:13.0

I know those guys.

0:18.0

Hey everybody, welcome to Giants Talk, a very special edition of Giants Talk.

0:21.6

This is Alex coming to you live from Rick Woodfield in Birmingham, Alabama.

0:26.1

Willie Mays played here in 1948.

0:28.2

He was 17 years old.

0:29.7

He immediately went to center field, told the left fielder and the right fielder,

0:33.0

you guys have everything to the line, I have everything else.

0:35.5

He was Willie from the very beginning.

0:37.0

And this week, as you all know, we unfortunately got the sad news that he passed away at the age of 93.

0:43.9

I think without a doubt, the greatest baseball player of all time, one of the great storytellers

0:48.4

of all time as well, he was around the Giants quite a bit. And really one of the highlights

0:52.2

of my career, watching him just interact with guys and

0:54.6

and you know be out there in spring training giving advice he was still giving advice in his

1:00.2

late 80s he still wanted to talk baseball he just truly loved the game so someone we can all learn from

1:05.9

and today we have some special interviews for you guys Laura Britt and I have been out here in

1:10.4

Birmingham all week,

1:11.6

and we talked to some former giants and some people you all know very well.

1:16.1

We talked to Jake Peavy, Randy Wynn, Hunter Pence,

1:19.1

Brandon Crawford, third baseman tonight of the St. Louis Cardinals, Brandon Crawford,

1:23.1

and Dave Fleming, who I think just did a wonderful job on the broadcast the other night,

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