Wonderful Willie

60 years ago the great L.A. Times sports columnist, Jim Murray, wrote a tribute to 31 year old Willie Mays that should be required reading for all baseball fans

It is hard to imagine in today’s times how revered baseball stars were in the mid-20th century. Baseball was the number one sport in America. And in the early 1960s the number one player in baseball was Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants. The “Say Hey Kid” was already a legendary, almost mythical figure. And he was just in the middle of his car…