Talk:Willie Mays

Article shortening

Per the recent peer review discussion, I am currently in the process of trimming the article. Some stuff is easier to condense than others, so I plan to list stuff that we might want to reincorporate in this section, just so it is not lost. Sanfranciscogiants17 (talk) 22:46, 13 December 2020 (UTC)

When Mays first joined the Giants, Forbes made arrangements for him to stay with David and Anna Goosby, who lived on St. Nicholas Avenue and 151st Street.(Barra, p. 157) Just before his marriage in 1956, he bought a home near Columbia University in Upper Manhattan. Mays and Sahadi, p. 134 When the Giants moved to San Francisco, Mays bought a house in the Sherwood Woods neighborhood adjacent to St. Francis Wood, San Francisco in 1957. Kelley, T.; VerPlanck, C.; Williams, Al (2016). "African American Historic Context Statement" (PDF). San Francisco Planning Department. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 19, 2019. Retrieved November 12, 2019. The purchase was initially met with backlash from neighbors who urged developer Walter Gnesdiloff to reconsider the repercussions "if colored people moved in". Kelley ref LaBounty, Woody (August 2000). "Streetwise: Willie Mays". OutsideLands.org. Retrieved July 3, 2020. When mayor George Christopher heard Mays had been denied housing, he offered to share his house with Mays and his wife until they could get one. LaBounty Ultimately, Mays and his wife moved into the house in November 1957, and Mays wrote that when a brick was thrown through the window, "Some neighbors actually called to ask if they could help. So I didn't feel concerned about racial tensions in my neighborhood once the [1958] season was about to start." Mays and Sahadi, pp. 146–47 They only lived there for two years before moving back to New York. Mays and Sahadi, p. 154 However, in 1963, Mays bought a house at 54 Mendosa Avenue in Forest Hill. He was more immediately welcomed in this San Francisco neighborhood, as the homeowners association helped him throw a block party shortly after he moved in. LaBounty In 1969, he purchased a house in Atherton, California. Hirsch, p. 503 Linge, p. 151 As of 1987, he owned four houses, and a San Francisco Chronicle article from 2000 reported that Mays still lived in Atherton. Hirsch, p. 543 Dickey, Glen (June 9, 2000). Fans Must Learn To Let Go of Stars. Retrieved August 16, 2020. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sanfranciscogiants17 (talk • contribs) 22:46, 13 December 2020 (UTC)

Negro League update

It seems his stats haven’t been updated by collating those from the NL and ML, given the news on that today. I assume this hasn’t been done yet for the others who played both leagues. Rongaul (talk) 05:14, 17 December 2020 (UTC)

• Statistical sites such as Baseball-Reference or MLB's own have not yet been updated to reflect this change, either. I'd say wait for them to be altered to update the stats. Otherwise, we don't have a good source to cite to. Sanfranciscogiants17 (talk) 11:21, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
  • Worth noting that MLB is only incorporating Negro Leagues statistics from 1924–1948, so a couple of Mays' best seasons with the Birmingham Black Barons won't officially count, though some of his earlier statistics, earned as a young teenager, may. --Dystopos (talk) 14:50, 27 January 2021 (UTC)

Suggestion to link short footnotes

I don't want to mess with the established style before checking here, but I noticed that the short footnotes are not linked to the full citations. This can easily lead to difficult-to-detect errors like the ones I just stumbled across, two short footnotes referring to "Berra, p. xx". There is no full source by anyone named "Berra". Using {{sfn}} would make such errors visible and make it easier for readers to link from short footnotes to each full citation. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:17, 28 April 2021 (UTC)

How many All Stars?

It says he was a 24-time All-Star, from 1954-1973, but that's only 19 years. What is the truth? 24.142.68.214 (talk) 06:42, 26 March 2022 (UTC)

From Major League Baseball All-Star Game#All-Star Game scheduling: "There were two All-Star Games played each season from 1959 through 1962. The second game was added to raise money for the MLB players' pension funds, as well as other causes. The experiment was later abandoned on the grounds that having two games watered down the appeal of the event." Rgrds. --Bison X (talk) 13:46, 26 March 2022 (UTC)