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Old 06-18-2024, 06:57 PM
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Just saw that, too.
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Luis Aparicio, Sandy Koufax, Orlando Cepeda...we don't have a many of these guys left.

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Rest in peace to one of the greatest ballplayers ever.
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Rest in peace to one of the greatest ballplayers ever.
I’d say THE greatest. RIP Willie.
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Oh, no. Great, great player. RIP
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Wow, hard to believe. I just read a quote from him in the past few days that he wouldn't be going to the game at Rickwood Field on June 20 but that he would be appearing from home in some way so very sad and unexpected. RIP.
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Sad day for sure. R.I.P. Willie "Say Hey" Mays. Thanks for all the great memories.

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Just heard the news..Met him at a card show in Michigan many years ago RIP Willie.
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For my fellow Mets fans, check out post #80 of this thread, where I 're-imagined' cards of Willie Mays on 'The Amazins' in 1972:

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It is great to see so many cool items of Mays. Here is something I found at the Brimfield antique show a few years ago.

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I think of the lyrics to an early Beatles song, "I'm a Loser," in which John Lennon sang:

My tears are falling like rain from the sky
Is it for her or myself that I cry?


Change the pronoun and that's the truth for many of us. Because if Willie can grow old and depart, then what hope is there for the rest of us?
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I think of the lyrics to an early Beatles song, "I'm a Loser," in which John Lennon sang:

My tears are falling like rain from the sky
Is it for her or myself that I cry?


Change the pronoun and that's the truth for many of us. Because if Willie can grow old and depart, then what hope is there for the rest of us?
I think I'll go with these lyrics from Australian rock band The Angels (paraphrased and borrowed from Charlie Chaplin) :

"I got to stop these tears that's falling from my eye
Go walk out in the rain, so no one sees me cry"

But my favorite version of the song is this acoustic version on a solo album by the lead singer : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6YuWkI4kcs

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