None Greater: Celebrating Willie Mays

Baseball Tonight with Buster Olney

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🗓️ 19 June 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Negro Leagues Baseball Museum President Bob Kendrick and Buster discuss the passing of baseball legend Willie Mays, how Bob found out about Mays’ death, the Rickwood game turning into a celebration of his life, Mays excitedly talking about being struck out by Satchel Paige, and if MLB should make Mays the logo. Then, Hembo on the Blue Jays going up in smoke, missing out on watching Mookie Betts do something historic, the Mariners burying the Rangers and Astros, and why Steven Kwan is a different hitter this season. Later, former major leaguer Cleon Jones talks about celebrating the Negro Leagues with the game at Rickwood in Birmingham, Ala., playing against Willie Mays in his first game as a Met at the Polo Grounds, meeting Hank Aaron at a school assembly, getting inner cities involved with the game, and his work in the Africatown community in Mobile. 8:52 Bob Kendrick 27:01 Hembo 41:17 Cleon Jones 59:58 Tim Kurkjian on Willie Mays for SportsCenter 1:03:49 Bleacher Tweets Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the baseball tonight podcast for Wednesday, June 19th, 2024 and today will be better than yesterday and it has to be because yesterday we lost a giant the greatest player ever I think in
0:26.8	Willie Mays. I'm buster only I'm in Montana Taylor Schwink is in the
0:30.6	shrink studios John Landry our intern is in Dallas and guys boy what a day to
0:37.7	hear that news it absolutely felt like a gut punch. Billy May is passing away at age 93. His unmatched collection of skills made
0:47.2	him the greatest center fielder who ever lived. The Giants announced his passing on
0:52.1	Tuesday afternoon. the from the bottom of my broken heart for the unwavering love you have shown him over the years.
1:05.3	You have been his life's blood.
1:07.0	But say hey kid left an indelible mark on the sport with his name of constant
1:11.5	throughout baseball's hallowed record book and his defensive prowess,
1:14.8	epitomized by the catch in game one of the 1954 World Series, second to none.
1:20.8	All told in his career that spanned more than 20 years he made
1:25.2	24 all-star teams won two NL MVP awards and won 12 gold gloves he ranked six
1:31.3	all-time in home runs with 660 seventh and runs scored
1:35.2	two thousand sixty eight wealth in rBI nineteen hundred nine and thirteen in hits with
1:41.4	thirty two hundred and ninety. Here's sound of Willie Mays's famous catch in the
1:46.6	1954 World Series. Way back in Tennessee, way back.
1:53.0	It is called back!
1:55.0	It's back!
1:57.0	The money made
2:00.0	Just brought this round to a speech with a catch
2:03.0	would cost the men an obstacle illusion to a lot of people.
2:07.0	I was on get up this morning and Mike Greenberg asked to try to put
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