| LC control no. | n 79041939 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Mays, Willie, 1931- |
| Variant(s) | Say Hey Kid (Baseball player), 1931- Mays, Willie, Jr., 1931- |
| Other standard no. | 0000000082993210 110380493 Q561852 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | New York (N.Y.) |
| Located | San Francisco (Calif.) |
| Birth date | 1931-05-06 |
| Place of birth | Westfield (Ala.) |
| Field of activity | Baseball |
| Affiliation | San Francisco Giants (Baseball team) New York Giants (Baseball team) National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum |
| Profession or occupation | Baseball players Center fielders (Baseball) |
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| Found in | Smith, K. The Willie Mays story, c1954. National Baseball Hall of Fame WWW site, Feb. 13, 2004 (Willie Mays; b. Willie Howard Mays, May 6, 1931, Westfield, Ala.; facsim. of plaque: Willie Howard Mays, Jr.; the Say Hey Kid; inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in 1979) <https://baseballhall.org/hall-of-famers/mays-willie> Wikipedia, May 22, 2013 (Willie Mays, American professional baseball player who played for the Giants--1951-72, and the Mets--1972-73) Wikipedia, 9 May 2021 (Willie Howard Mays Jr., born May 6, 1931 in Westfield, Ala.; nicknamed "The Say Hey Kid"; an American professional baseball center fielder, widely regarded as one of the greatest baseball players of all time; Mays spent almost all of his 22-season Major League Baseball (MLB) career playing for the New York/San Francisco Giants (1951-1952, 1954-1972) before finishing his career with the New York Mets (1972-1973); elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1979) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Mays> |
| Associated language | eng |
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