Growing up as a kid in buffalo, always a big Willie Mays fan.
Got a chance to see him in the Twilight of his career when he played for the Mets. The Mets were playing in pittsburgh, so a bunch of us in high school drove down to Pittsburgh to watch Willie play.
Sadly, he struck out four times in that game. My last memory of Willie, though I still think he was perhaps the greatest center fielder whoever played.
That 1973 Mets team went to the World Series and darn near beat mighty Oakland. Not a bad way for Willie to end his career.