Willie Mays

Willie Mays was a black American Baseball player from Westfield Alabama. Back then in the 1960s black people didn’t have the same rights as white people. He was a very good baseball player that won a rookie of the year in 1951 and has won 12 gold glove awards, Two NL MVPs and a worlds series and many more awards in his career. He
played for the San Francisco Giants for the longest time, then played with the New York Mets. The position he played was center-field. His batting average was .302, he had 660 home runs, 3,283 hits, 338 stolen bases and 1,903 RBI’s. Right now he is currently 87 years old. He was born: (May 6, 1931). His nickname was “The Say Hey Kid”. He was black, but he proved and showed the MLB that he was one of the best players in MLB history and he also made it to the hall of fame. He played 22 MLB seasons and was elected to the hall of fame in 1979, and his number (24) was retired by the  San Francisco Giants. In the 1940s black people were not allowed to play baseball and Willie Mays was still in the MLB when that was still going around.