| LC control no. | n 88012389 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | McCovey, Willie, 1938-2018 |
| Variant(s) | McCovey, Stretch, 1938-2018 Stretch (Baseball player), 1938-2018 |
| Other standard no. | 0000000030434601 16304897 Q3569094 |
| Biography/History note | Individual was a Baseball Hall of Fame inductee (1986). |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | San Francisco (Calif.) |
| Located | Woodside (Calif.) |
| Birth date | 1938-01-10 |
| Death date | 2018-10-31 |
| Place of birth | Mobile (Ala.) |
| Place of death | Stanford (Calif.) |
| Affiliation | San Francisco Giants (Baseball team) Oakland Athletics (Baseball team) San Diego Padres (Baseball team : National League of Professional Baseball Clubs) San Francisco Giants (Baseball team) National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum |
| Profession or occupation | Baseball players Infielders (Baseball) |
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| Found in | The Hall of Fame Giants, c1986: t.p. (Willie McCovey; San Francisco Giants baseball player) p. 54 (Willie Lee McCovey; b. 1/10/38 in Mobile, Ala.; nicknamed Stretch) African American National Biography, accessed February 25, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (McCovey, Willie; Willie Lee McCovey; Big Mac; baseball player, hall of fame athlete; born 10 January, 1938 in Mobile, Alabama, United States; baseball player, Sandersville Giants class D farm team (1955), Danville, Virginia, in Carolina League (1956), Phoenix, Arizona (1958), New York Giants (1959), permanent fixture for the Giants at first base (1965), San Francisco Giants (1977-1980); worked on Giants' management staff; opened California restaurant, Walnut Creek; won the NL Rookie of the Year Award (1959), ranked first in both home runs and RBIs (1968, 1969), set record by drawing forty-five intentional walks in a single season (1969), the record stood until 2002, voted most valuable player, Baseball Writers Association of America (1969), voted comeback player of the year (1977), won the NL home-run title three times, the RBI crown twice, played in six All-Star Games, Giants players voted Willie Mac Award each year to team's most inspirational player) New York times WWW site, viewed Nov. 1, 2018 (in obituary published Oct. 31: Willie McCovey; b. Willie Lee McCovey, Jan. 10, 1938, Mobile, Ala.; d. Wednesday [Oct. 31, 2018], Stanford Hospital, aged 80; lived in Woodside, Calif.; Hall of Fame first baseman who hit 521 home runs in 22 major league seasons, almost all of them with the Giants, and remained a beloved figure in San Francisco into his final years) National Baseball Hall of Fame website, 9 May 2021 (Willie McCovey; born Willie Lee McCovey; inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1986) facsimile of plaque (Willie Lee McCovey, "Stretch") <https://baseballhall.org/hall-of-famers/mccovey-willie> |
| Associated language | eng |
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