John Shea discusses co-writing book with Giants legend Willie Mays

Giants Talk: A San Francisco Giants Podcast

NBC Sports Bay Area

Mlb, Sports, San Francisco Giants, Baseball

4.4 • 630 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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On the latest Giants Insider Podcast, Alex Pavlovic is joined by sportswriter John Shea, who co-wrote the book, "24: Life Stories and Lessons from the Say Hey Kid" with Willie Mays.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Giants are world champions.
0:08.6	Welcome to the Giants Insider podcast on NBC Sports Bay Area.com.
0:14.2	Introducing your host, San Francisco Giants Insider, Alex Pavlovich.
0:20.1	Hey, everybody, welcome back to the Giants Insider podcast.
0:22.9	Hope you guys are all staying safe, maybe watching a little Korean baseball on TV.
0:27.6	That's something new this week.
0:29.2	If you have been watching the KBO games that they've been showing, I called Mack Williamson,
0:33.5	who played in the KBO last year to ask him what it was like and what fans should know about it.
0:39.0	That story is on our website right now, NBC Sports Bay Area.
0:42.9	It's on my Twitter account, Pavlovich, NBCS.
0:45.7	So you can find Max's thoughts.
0:47.3	He was back in camp with the nationals this year, but he was in South Korea for two months last year and gave me a pretty good rundown.
0:55.2	Today's podcast is an interview with somebody you probably know if you're
0:58.9	hardcore Giants fan.
1:00.3	John Shea covers the Giants for the San Francisco Chronicle.
1:03.7	He has for a really long time.
1:05.9	And in the last few years, as he was doing that, he was also working on basically what is
1:10.1	kind of the
1:10.8	ultimate Willie Mays book. It is co-written with Mays. It is called 24 life stories and lessons
1:17.8	from the Say Hey Kid. It's a really good book and really just full of May's quotes. If you've seen
1:23.8	be interviewed, it's just such a Willie Mays interview style throughout this
1:29.1	book and really interesting for me to go through. And it's all new reporting and new stories.
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