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Saying a final goodbye to Willie Mays, baseball’s ‘Say hey kid’

  • Written by Lincoln Mitchell, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Saying a final goodbye to Willie Mays, baseball’s ‘Say hey kid’Willie Mays playing stickball in Harlem in 1954.Bettmann/Getty Images

In 1959, when Soviet Premier Nikita Khruschev visited San Francisco and members of the International Longshoreman’s Union greeted him with cheers, newspaperman Frank Coniff quipped: “This is the damndest city. They cheer Khruschev and boo Willie Mays.”

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