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Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.
Willie Mays
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Willie Mays
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: May 6
Baseball Player
Jefferson County
Alabama
Willie Howard Mays Jr.
Willie Howard Mays
The Say Hey Kid
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I don't rate them, I just hit them.
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I played with the Birmingham Black Barons. I was making 500 at 14. That was a lot of money in those days.
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They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it.
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Every time I look at my pocketbook, I see Jackie Robinson.
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