{"id":57214,"date":"2024-06-19T02:34:46","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T02:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57214"},"modified":"2024-06-19T02:34:46","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T02:34:46","slug":"rip-say-hey-kid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57214","title":{"rendered":"RIP, &#8216;Say Hey Kid&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Willie Mays has passed away. He was 93 years of age. He lived a full, fruitful and joyful life.<\/p>\n<p>I am going to share on this very brief blog post something I once read about Willie Mays, considered by many baseball experts to be among the greatest athletes ever to play the Grand Old Game.<\/p>\n<p>Someone once said &#8212; I cannot remember who it was &#8212; that Mays <em>never made a mistake playing baseball<\/em>. He had the sharpest baseball mine of anyone on the field. He never threw to the wrong player. His mind was always completely in the game.<\/p>\n<p>He played the game with flair, his hat would fly off as he raced around the bases after connecting on one of his 3,283 base hits.<\/p>\n<p>He always was the smartest player on the field &#8230; always!<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Willie Mays has passed away. He was 93 years of age. He lived a full, fruitful and joyful life. I am going to share on this very brief blog post something I once read about Willie Mays, considered by many baseball experts to be among the greatest athletes ever to play the Grand Old Game. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57214\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RIP, &#8216;Say Hey Kid&#8217;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[3105,5268],"class_list":["post-57214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-mlb","tag-willie-mays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57215,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57214\/revisions\/57215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}