I hope you got the chance to see the Mays interview with Bob Costas on MLB tonight. I really enjoyed it. Told some great stories about his times and his contemporaries. He mentioned that classic game in 1962 or -63 that between the Braves and Giants where Spahn and Marichal each pitched 15 innings of 0-0 ball. The game was won when Mays homered in the 16th to win the game 1-0. You can be sure that there will never be a game like that again.

The only thing approaching being a controversial comment concerned the ninth inning of Game 7 of the 1962 Series. With two out and Matty Alou on first, Mays doubled and Alou held up at third. Willie said that he wished that he would have been on first and that Alou go the hit because he, Mays, would have continued on to home and would have taken Elston Howard out and scored the tying run. He said that he felt Alou was afraid to make the last out in the World Series. You all, of course, remember how that Willie McCovey followed Mays and hit a screaming line drive that Bobby Richardson caught to end the game and the Series.