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Say Hey: The Autobiography of Willie Mays: Say Hey: The Autobiography of Willie Mays

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I read this book a few years ago, and was both interested in Willie Mays not only as a player, but as a man. Growing up a baseball player Willie Mays was someone to idolize, and with the way he played, this was easy to do. What was most sad about this book was the fact that Willie ended up a great career having little money to show for it, and had to become a greeter at a casino to make ends meet. One can only imagine how much money he would command now, and how he would be set for life in today's current baseball climate. If A-Rod gets $25 million a year, than Willie would get much more. This book gets points for being an honest look at Willie's life, from his own perspective, and for that I aplaud him. If you like baseball, you will like this book.

The autobiography of Willie Mayes portrays the life and times of one of America's best baseball players. Willie Mays played with a style and flair unmatched in this day and age. The book describes his trials and tribulations growing up in the deep south.

It is a very well-written autobiography, and if readers are into baseball or Willie Mays this is an excellent selection. It is an excellent selection because it is a profile of American baseball and the way we idolize professional athletes.

I liked this book. Sticks mostly to Willie's playing career with little about his personal life outside of baseball. Some nice anecdotes and comparisons with he, Mickey Mantle, and Duke Snider, stats per season, talks about relationships with the team managers and other players, etc.... really fun stuff.

Not much off the field. Like, he never mentions Bobby Bonds, which was strange to me since Willie Mays became the Godfather for Barry Bonds when he was born in the mid-sixties. I'd recommend it, but this book didn't resonate with me like some other sports bios (Bill Russell's "Second Wind" and Jackie Robinson's "I Never Had It Made").

There are newer books on the market about Willie Mays, but this is still the best because this is Willie telling his story in his own words. I've read it several times. You often hear it said that Willie was a very gifted athlete, but his own words give you a sense of just what an intelligent player he was - dealing with the winds at Candlestick Park, for example. Or how he positioned the fielders, depending on who was hitting. This book also gives you a sense of his underlying decency - how he handled the Juan Marichal/John Roseboro incident, or responded to Alvin Dark's comments about black and Latin ballplayers. And of course, you learn about his close relationships with Leo Durocher and Herman Franks, managers of the Giants in the 50's and late 60's. Recommended for all fans of the Giants, Mays, or just great baseball.

The book Say Hey! has one my vote for one of the greatest autobiographies of my time. It is the whole story of this brave and bold man's life. I had read this book for English class in just my freshmen year. It's that good of a book that I still remember it after all these years. Three stars!

The life and story of Willie Mays in and out of baseball. Starting at the age of fifteen at the Negro League, Mays works his way to the record books.

This book is a great autobiography about a great black baseball player that ever played the game. This story will tell you about how he grew up in broyklen playing stickball in the streets with all of his friends. When this great ball player got his chance to play baseball for money he took it. He first started out in the Negro leagues for the New York giant's minor league team and then he finally got his chance to play in the bigs and play centerfield and right field because the rightfeilder was really slow so the coach had him playing two positions. When he went up to the bigs, he really helped there team go all the way to the World Series to play against the Indians. The giants swept the Indians in three straight games and took the pennit.

I would recommend this book to anybody out there who loves the game of baseball. It is a well-written autobiography about a great baseball player who was voted the greatest player of his time. If you wanted to pick this book up and read it you would fall in love with the game of baseball or fall in love with Willie Mays hays.

If you grew up during the 50s and 60s, Willie Mays was a household name. He is an american icon, and was recently voted the greatest living ballplayer. This book covers the remarkable life of this american hero, from his humble beginnings in segregated Alabama, to fame and fortune in the major leagues, to his struggle to learn to live without baseball. Willie Mays is an american hero, and this is the best book there is on Willie Mays. Say Hey!!!!!

This is a great boo