HAPPY BIRTHDAY WILLIE MAYS!!

[yuiyoshida]

[Journeyman]

1. Well, say hey . . .

[Liberal In Red State]

2. So many great memories . . . Happy Birthday Willie!

[rocktivity]

3. I'm glad Charlie Brown got to meet his biggest fan

rocktivity

[brush]

4. One of the all-time great greats. nt

[iandhr]

5. The Red Sox had a chance to sign him.

But Johnny Yawkey didn't want a black players on his team.

[Fearless]

6. And you can see how well that worked out for him.

Or you could ask... Off the top of my head... David Ortiz, Manny Ramirez, Pedro Martinez, (for one year) Rickey Henderson, Mo Vaughn, Reggie Smith... etc... Just how beneficial racial equality is to baseball.

[iandhr]

7. Think of the outfield the Sox would have had...

Willie Mays and Ted Williams on the same team.

[Fearless]

10. Or the offense for that matter!

[iandhr]

8. Boston history on the race issue hasn't always been great when it comes to sports.

When Subban scored the game winner for Montreal in Game 1 of the Series against the Burins there were a lot of tweet calling him the N word.

[Fearless]

9. There weren't "a lot" there were some and they were promptly shunned.

If we have to be held to the light by our most reprehensible people, there are far worse off places than Boston.

[bayareaboy]

11. I had a friend when I was young, who had a dad who used to write service orders ...

at the Caddy agency on Van Ness in Fan Francisco.

And Willie was a definitely a Caddy man. Randy's Father spent a lot of time making sure all was well with that car. And Randy got lots of balls and photo's and so on.