The Willie Mays Story | 24: Life Stories and Lessons from the Say Hey Kid (Part 2 of 2)
Thrivetime Show | Business School without the BS
Clay Clark
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2020
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Part 2! Best-selling author John Shea joins to share about the life and times of Hall of Fame baseball player, Willie Mays and what made Willie Mays truly great as a person and an athlete.
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| 0:00.0 | Ebbets Field, May 28, 1952. |
| 0:05.0 | The next morning, Willie May supported the U.S. Army. |
| 0:09.0 | The Korean War was raging, and no one knew when he'd returned. So the Brooklyn crowd who should have |
| 0:14.7 | hated him for leading the Giants to a pen and over the Dodgers just the year before cheered |
| 0:19.5 | his final at that. When the game ended, all four umpires cut across the diamond to say goodbye to |
| 0:25.4 | Willie. Then he disappeared into the clubhouse. While organist Gladys Gooding played, |
| 0:30.4 | I'll see you in my dreams, The Say Hey Kid was everybody's favor. |
| 0:35.0 | And on today's show we interview the man that teamed up with Willie Mays to co-author the new book, |
| 0:41.0 | 24, Life Stories and Lessons from the Say Hey Kid, Willie Mays. |
| 0:45.6 | 3, 2, 1, Boom! |
| 0:51.5 | You are now entering the dojo of Mojo and the Thrive Time Show. |
| 0:57.0 | Thrive Time Show on the microphone. What is this? |
| 1:00.0 | Top of the I2 charts in the category of business |
| 1:03.0 | Drilling down on business topics like we are a dentist |
| 1:06.0 | Provided you with internship like you are an apprentice and we go so fast that you might get motion sickness |
| 1:11.0 | grab a pen and pad to the lab. |
| 1:13.3 | Let's get in this. |
| 1:14.4 | Time to bear some fruit like some Florida oranges. |
| 1:17.2 | Three two one here come the business. |
| 1:19.3 | Ninja's Sonic boom. |
| 1:21.6 | Yes! Sonic Boom! Yes, yes, and yes! |
| 1:27.0 | Thrive Nation, it is a very special occasion because we get to interview the co-author of the new hit book 24 life stories and lessons from the Say Hey |
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