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Willie Howard Mays, Jr. (born May 6, 1931) was born in Westfield, Alabama, just outside of Birmingham, Alabama. His father, who was named for president William Howard Taft, was a talented baseball player with the Negro team for the local iron plant.[11] His mother Annie Satterwhite was a gifted basketball and track star in high school.[12] His parents never married each other.[12] As a baby he was cared for by his mother's two younger sisters Sarah and Ernestine. Sarah became the primary female role model in Mays life.[13] His father exposed Mays to baseball at an early age, and by the age of five he was playing catch with his father.[14] At the age of 10, Mays was allowed to sit in the bench of his father's Industrial League games.[15]
Mays was gifted in multiple sports, averaging 17 points a game (quite high for the time) for the Fairfield Industrial H.S. basketball team, and more than 40 yards a punt in football. He also starred at quarterback. He graduated from Fairfield in 1950.
Mays a former American professional baseball player who played the majority of his major league career with the New York and San Francisco Giants before finishing with the New York Mets. Nicknamed The Say Hey Kid, Mays was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1979, his first year of eligibility. Many consider him to be the greatest all-around player of all time.
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