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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II in Rome, exchanges gifts with pope
ROME >> Queen Elizabeth II — bearing a basket of honey, whiskey and other goodies from the royal estates — paid a visit to Pope Francis at the Vatican on Thursday. The pontiff returned the courtesy with a gift for Prince George, Elizabeth's great-grandson.
The Argentine-born pope presented the queen with a stone orb topped with a sharp cross, saying it's for "el ninetto" — a term of endearment for little child. Elizabeth said George "will be thrilled by that — when he's a little older."
The exchange of gifts capped a private meeting of just under 20 minutes between Elizabeth, her husband, Prince Philip, and Francis — with communication facilitated by an interpreter.
Francis did say "Welcome!" in English when the royal couple arrived about 20 minutes late for their appointment.
"Sorry to keep you waiting," Elizabeth told Francis. "We were having a very pleasant lunch with the president."
She was referring to Italy's head of state, Giorgio Napolitano, who hosted the queen and Philip for lunch at the presidential Quirinal palace.
The white-gloved monarch arrived earlier in the day in Rome wearing a lilac-colored spring coat and hat that matched the wisteria blooming over much of the Italian capital.
Previously, Elizabeth had met with four pontiffs, starting with Pius XII in 1951, a year before her accession to the throne.
Elizabeth is head of the Anglican church. There was no immediate word on what was discussed in the meeting with Francis, who is in his second year as pontiff.
Elizabeth told the pope that the jar of honey in the wicker picnic hamper "is from my garden" at Buckingham Palace. "I hope that is unusual for you."
Francis looked startled when the prince held up a bottle of Balmoral whiskey from the royal estate in Scotland. Among other goodies were a bottle of cider and a dozen eggs.
The queen's day in Rome was a makeup visit. Illness had forced her to cancel a 2013 trip to Rome.
"She doesn't like leaving obligations unfulfilled so she was determined to reinstate that visit," Britain's ambassador to the Holy See, Nigel Baker, told Vatican Radio.


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Good Morning,
Equity futures are down this morning, here's the overnight action in the DOW and S&P:
The dollar is up, bonds are flat, oil is flat, and gold is down.
The Chicago PMI comes out at 9:45 Eastern followed by the petroleum report at 10:30. Tomorrow we'll get to see Jobless Claims and that could be the only real market mover of the week, the markets are closed on New Year's Day.
Interesting that now GMAC is having to come back and ask for a third round of bailouts from the government, this time asking for $3.5 billion more in addition to the $13.5 billion already received. The people of America have been completely deceived. They are being told that it's all the union's fault when it comes to the auto maker's problems, the same groups get blamed for education, and anywhere there is trouble. I even see bloggers falling for this nonsense. The media, owned by the same people who own and finance all the large businesses in America brainwash people into believing such falsehoods. General Motors FAILED not because of their union, but because they took on shameful amounts of risk in their financing units. An auto manufacturer saw easy money to be had in the paper chasing industry and got massively involved with financing subprime homes, derivatives, and even helped to create a bubble in the financing of automobiles in the same way they and others created a bubble in home prices.
This led them to losses that were so large that they could have literally paid their employees, who where conducting the only legitimate business of the company, NOTHING and NO BENEFITS and they still would have lost billions! People who are bashing the unions need to do their research and they need to study the history of the United States and the Industrial Revolution. They need to give thought as to the balance of power that exists, or is supposed to exist, between the workforce and those who provide the capital. I can tell you this, the next time you fly in an airplane, that covers miles far safer than any form of transportation there is, and you land safely, you can thank the pilot's union for bringing about improvements in safety that simply would not have ever happened had they not been able to organize. There is a balance that needs to occur, and once again, when the forces are out of balance it's usually due to government getting in the way. Here's how it should work – if a union becomes so powerful that they are able to demand so much that the business fails, then the union also fails. Now look at General Motors who is not allowed to fail. Union's fault? Bull.
The action in the markets has obviously been on extremely weak volume over the past two holiday weeks, therefore not a lot can be read into it until we get the volume that will come after we shift into the new year. Yesterday there were a couple of things that caught my eye, one was in the IRX, the very short term bond fund. It moved sharply higher breaking out of its current range:
This is the rate that most closely coincides with the Federal Funds Rate. Many believe that it leads the Fed who react to the pressures in the market place and follow with rate increases or decreases. Sometimes that's definitely the way it works. Since the current Funds Target Rate is capped at .25%, the IRX moving above that level would signal that the Fed needs to make a move. Of course they have been buying down this end of the yield curve, so we don't really know what is real market action here and what is not. Is it rising because they are really ending QE? Or is it rising because the economy is supposedly more healthy? We don't know, that's the problem with government interference, especially when it's done mostly in secret and is covered up. The bottom line is that something changed and this needs to be watched.
In the article I wrote on capital flows, I mentioned that the TNX (the 10 year Treasury fund) produced what appears to be a topping hammer. Yep, verified by yesterday's action which bearishly engulfed it. This action is occurring just as the longer term bonds reach the neckline of those very large Head & Shoulder patterns, so we may see a change of direction in bonds for the time being. Again, we'll have to watch and see how long that sticks and whether or not those larger necklines get broken. The supply of debt, regardless, is simply stunning and I will be surprised if they do not eventually break:
The XLF is still looking very weak, yet another down day and again it fails to make progress back up to its November high:
The fact that the market is failing to take advantage of the holiday low volume to ramp even higher towards that 1,200 target is telling us something. No need to get ahead of any move right now…
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Judicial Stress from the Perspective of the Courtroom Artist by Channing Reeves is highly recommended. It documents the stress judges feel in a visually gripping manner. The drawings are compelling and incisive, reaching into your very soul to describe the deleterious effects of stress. Though the book purports to describe the situation of stress for the judges, it has a universal appeal, describing the quandary of executives everywhere caught by too much work and too little time to do, too little support staff.


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Haas, Kohlschreiber to meet in Munich finale
Munich, Germany – Germans Tommy Haas and defending champion Philipp Kohlschreiber will play for the title at the BMW Open after winning semifinal matches on Saturday.
The third-seeded Haas rolled to a 6-4, 6-3 victory over Croatia's Ivan Dodig in the opening semifinal before the fourth-seeded Kohlschreiber rallied for a 6-7 (4-7), 6-3, 7-6 (7-5) triumph over fellow German Daniel Brands.
Haas will be vying for his 14th career ATP World Tour title and his fourth on home soil. He has won twice in Halle and once in Stuttgart, finishing as the runner-up in this event back in 2000 -- losing to Franco Squillari.
Kohlschreiber, meanwhile, will be trying for his third title in Munich. He beat Marin Cilic in last year's final after first winning this French Open tune-up in 2007.
Haas broke serve three times on Saturday, finishing off Dodig in a mere 90 minutes to reach his second final of 2013. He lost to Milos Raonic in the San Jose title match back in February and owns a career record of 13-12 in ATP finals.
Kohlschreiber battled back from a set down on Saturday, then was down a break in the third set. He eventually forced a tiebreaker and fell behind 4-1 before storming back to win in 2 hours and 14 minutes.
Sunday will mark the second final of 2013 for Kohlschreiber, who lost to David Ferrer in Auckland back in January. He is 4-4 all-time in title matches.
Haas and Kohlschreiber have split four previous meetings, all played on grass. Kohlschreiber won the most recent matchup, a five-setter last year in the first round at Wimbledon.
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Enjoy this re-post from our creative Jewish Hostess Lillian Shomer! Don't let Tu B'ishvat get swept by the wayside. This meaningful Jewish holiday celebrates the continual re-birth of the miraculous trees, flowers and exotic fruits that we tend to take for granted. Add some Tu Bishvat fruit 'n florals to your holiday week! Marlene M.
P.S.Tu Bishvat, The 15 0f Shevat 2013 begins in the evening of
Friday, January 25
and ends in the evening of
Saturday, January 26
We're getting rid of your traditional bowl of fruit and flower arrangement this holiday. Actually, we're combining them!
Yes, It's hard to believe that Tu b'shvat is just around the corner in this bone chilling weather. The holiday of new blooms and fruit is probably more applicable in Israel rather than New York. But, we can always pretend, right? The answer is yes. So I decided to bring this holiday to our tables in a rather unusual way. I came up with something modern, easy to do, and best of all, affordable!
Floral spheres are a great way to update your Tu b'shvat table. To incorporate the holiday we used some of the 7 species in our arrangements and color coordinated them with the flowers. (i.e., pomegranates with red flowers, grapes with purple flowers). I always find that if you use one type of flower in an arrangement it just has a more expensive feel to it. I don't suggest mixing too many kinds of flowers, but if you're planning on doing so, try to stay in the same color family.
What you will need:
- A vase – I got these gorgeous mirror vases in the flower market in New York. It was the great deal at only $6.00 a piece.
- Floral foam ball – I also got these in the flower market, (they have everything you need) but you can get them online at www.oasisfloral.com
- Flowers – You guessed it, the flower market. They have great deals and always a great selection. I suggest you choose carnations as they are inexpensive and give a nice clean surface to your arrangement. I used them in my red "pomegranate" arrangement. Spider mums, hydrangeas or any other large flower will also look great and save you a lot of tedious work. If you opt for a small flower on a short stem, make sure you have a lot of time on your hands.
- Fruit – We used three of the seven species for our table–Dates, pomegranates, and grapes. Apricots are not of the seven species, but it's traditional to eat dried fruit on Tu b'shvat. And let's face it, it adds a lot of color! You can get most of these in your local market. The only seasonal fruit are pomegranates.
- Wood BBQ sticks
1. Soak the floral foam in water. This will help keep your flowers fresh.
2. Take your flower of choice and cut the stems leaving about 1.5″ of the stem still in tact.
3. Put the foam in the vase and start sticking the flower stems in the foam! I suggest working the flowers in lines wither horizontally or vertically. This will give your centerpiece a clean and neat look.
4. Once you've covered the sphere with flowers, simply pierce a piece of fruit with the bbq stick on one end, and place the other end in the floral foam. continue doing this until you've reached your desired amount of fruit per centerpiece. In case you're wondering, this is the holiday aspect of the arrangement!
It's that simple.
How cute? An easy way to bring pizzazz back to your tu bishvat table.
So, when the weather outside is frightful, floral spheres make for a fun project that will bring spring into your home, and will certainly make for an interesting Tu b'ishvat dinner conversation! The great thing about this arrangement is that you can make it all year round with any flower. Be creative and have fun with it.
Special thanks to Silver Spoons on Avenue U in Brooklyn for the use of their magnificent table accessories!
Happy Holiday!
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He looked at the dark wooden door with the number plate - 13, still intact, as if some strange power had preserved the sheen through all these years. The number spelt doom for most people, the unlucky 13. And yet, for him, it was an inseperable part of his life, in almost everything he did. He turned the doorknob slowly, knowing and yet not knowing, what beholds him. With the stale air that rushed out through the small crack in the door, rushed in memories of his childhood, memories of the times when life was as simple as the cricket game every evening.
If you could drink the water while the river is still bluewhile the winds still fresh and the soul still new
you'd give anything to see your reflection
in the myriad memories of the house that built you.
He was only 5 when he'd come here for the first time, too young to care where he was, how his life will be, and what he's gonna make out if it all when he grows old. The hand that was writing the book of his life was still warming up with a cup of coffee, and was in no mood to twist the story in unsuspecting turns. Life was good - the only thing that mattered was how to finish off the boss in the new video game he'd started playing. Cricket was always compulsory - whether played or watched on TV, and studies were a no-brainer. Dressing up was a trivial task and talking to a girl was never about getting her to have coffee with you. The world was white, the world was black.
The carpet has little footprints from the little white shoe,
The room upstairs where you did your homework smells of mildew.
Buried under the cobwebs and the dust of ages,
all you want to take back are memories from the house that built you.
He made his way across the hall and noticed the old clock that chimed every hour, still looked fresh and ready to sing. He found the old drawing books he used to paint mickey and donald duck in different poses, and got a glimpse of his first signature in them. He'd once thought he'd become an artist when he grew older. How naive was he to think that way, how confused too. The old wooden table with his name etched on it reminded him of the long sickness he went through, and how this table had doubled up into a dining touble as well as activity center when he was too weak to get up from the bed. He felt a strange connection to everything around him, as if everything was still trying to call out to him, in some inaudible frequency range, reminding him of the olden days. The diary where he wrote his first stupid poems and strange things looked as if it were scribbled only a while ago, and yet he knew that it had been abandoned a long long time back. He had grown out of these diaries. He had a blog now, something that made him feel part of society, and something that increased the number of results google showed on his name. Identities that were once made with school id cards with stamp size pics had ceased to be acceptable as genuine proofs, ever since characters had started to be built on the internet.
Problems were more but the worries were few
For a change there was no payment ever due
Listen closely and you might still hear the sound
of an innocent, hearty laugh in the bricks of the house the built you.
He found his cricket bats and wickets still neatly stacked together, and suddenly found himself in the middle of the makeshift playground, running after the bowl, trying in vain to save yet another boundary. "Why can't you run faster?", was the usual rhetoric, with which even God seemed to agree with a sideways smirk. Another day, the sky in shades of pink and orange, and yet another bowl delivered full length to the bulky batsman. The red bowl was hit hard, a bit flighty, and he was at mid-on. This time, he told himself, this time he'll prove it to them what a great fielder he is. This time, they will respect him. This time, he will catch the red bowl coming on at 100 kph and make them proud. The bowl came straight to his face and he put his left hand in front of it just in time. It hit him too hard, a loud thud followed and he found himself back - staring at the old bat, looking at his hand that thankfully didn't have to bear a life long burden of his daredevilry.
Buried in the old playground, your innocence lies
Where the wind still whispers to the old swings, sweet lullabies
To have wings and gamble to win, was but an innocent lesson that upon you grew,
as you moved away from the house that built you
He had come here after all these years not for an annual inspection though. He had a higher purpose. After all these years of wandering, trying to realize his childhood dreams, he knew he had outgrown his childhood itself, too early, too fast. He thought the touch of all these memories will heal the void in his heart, will let him dream again just like he used to, and make him see his future in technicolour hues. He was someone else outside, but here in the house that built him, he was what he was, and was always meant to be. He looked at his old casio and wondered where the melody has suddenly disappeared in everybody's lives. Did fate, or God, upload it on youtube, while trying to give it a try? He saw his old piggy bank, and it was still heavy with all the coins he'd collected over time. Only now the futility of the whole exercise struck him. Wouldn't it be so much better if we were to save our souls, our happiness, in bits and pieces, so that we could only find the treasure later when we needed it? As he looked around, he saw memories, glimpses of his past, scattered all over the place. Its going to be a long, fulfilling day, he thought. And as the summer sun cast familiar shadows around the house, he felt himself slipping back into time.
He had built his own house today, yet he never felt more at home than he felt in the house that built him.
Trying hard to hold on to the yesteryears, as time writes a premature eulogy
don't let the grip loosen on your life's symphony
Dancing with the hubris of your desires for too long if you do
just think of the simple times in the house that built you.


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Manager Mike Matheny said that he had a brief discussion with Triple-A Memphis manager Ron "Pop" Warner on Sunday morning, but he awaited Carpenter's assessment before forming any conclusions.
"I just saw the line," Matheny said. "Right now, our main concern is how he feels. And once again, I trust his evaluation as much as anything. He's a pretty honest evaluator of himself. I'm excited to talk to him and see exactly how he felt."
Carpenter threw 74 pitches (49 strikes) over 3 1/3 innings on Saturday. He allowed nine hits, four earned runs, walked two and struck out two in what was his second Minor League rehab appearance. If he were to continue pitching every five days, Carpenter would take the mound next in Memphis on Thursday.
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Stephen Mosher is a professor of sport management and media in the School of Health Sciences and Human Performance. Topics he can discuss include sport ethics and moral development; youth sport and the role of sport in character development; sport heroes and villains; sport and popular culture; sport in the media, particularly movies and literature; and sport and politics, the Olympic Games, the Civil Rights Movement, sport portrayals in the media, and sport in Latin America and the Caribbean. He can discuss such diverse topics as the Olympic Games on film, including Leni Riefenstahl's 'Olympia,' the saga of Pete Rose, the use of patriotic songs in post-9/11 sport settings, sport as a metaphor for war, and sports fanaticism.
Mosher has coached youth sports himself for over 25 years and studies the issues of sport in popular culture. He is currently working on an ethnography of bowling, which discusses how that sport plays a central role in the civic engagement of blue collars workers. In 2001, he wrote a series of columns for ESPN.com on the Little League World Series scandal involving pitcher Danny Almonte, who played despite being two years over the age limit.
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- "Should College Athletes Be Paid?" WalletHub
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Concentrations: Philosophy and Literary Criticism
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With no much work on the first day in new company I have joined, a sudden thought of creating Pakistan's flag with pure CSS came into my mind. So I started off with that and came up with the desired result using CSS only.
Creating orange stick, white and green rectangles with specified background color was easiest part. As for moon, naturally I used the border-radius CSS3 property. Basically I created two divs with border-radius value set to 90px to create perfect round shape (360/4 = 90). I gave the background color of white and green to these divs and used absolute positioning and z-index to put green round shape over the white round shape but at little distance so that the white div looks like a moon. I would suggest you to know this very useful CSS trick, something I knew about and used throughout the creation of the flag.
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You know CSS3 isn't supported in IE<=8, so I used CSS3Pie to get the support for border-radius CSS3 property in IE including IE6.
The trickiest part was creating the star shape but then again once you know how to create CSS triangles, things become easier. To get the star working correctly in buggy as always IE, I used the CSS conditional comments. The star looks slightly bigger in IE but still not bad the effort.
The flag was tested working fine in FF 3.6, IE 6 and above, Chrome and Safari.


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IntroductionAmorgos became famous as the deep blue sea of the eponymous movie that was shot in 1988 at the beach Agia Anna. The visitor comes across a place made up of many different terrains: mountainous slopes with steep coasts and beautiful though inaccessible bays which give place to sandy beaches. The island has become somewhat more popular with the tourists in the last few years, but preserves its authentic character.
The most important sight of the island is the Monastery of Panagia Hozoviotissa, built in 1088 by Emperor Alexios. The monastery is literally built into the hollow of a vertical rock 300 meters above the sea. The view is breathtaking.
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Yellowfin Tuna in olive oil
In a nutshell: Finest-quality fillets of yellowfin tuna, individually line-caught in the Bay of Biscay, preserved by a Basque Country family firm.
For centuries, Atun Claro– or yellowfin tuna – has been fished off the Basque coast of northern Spain.
It was here, in the little port of Bermeo, that Rufino Arroyabe set up a canning business, back in 1898. The firm is still family-owned today and the exceptional white tuna it produces epitomises the ideal of slow food.
First, the fish are caught, one by one, using a rod and line. Not only is this the time-honoured way, it's the most ecologically responsible, too, as this low-impact method doesn't disrupt the seabed or inadvertently capture any other marine species, such as dolphins or sea turtles.
Arroyabe's fishing practices also influence the quality of its product. It only uses fish caught on day boats, meaning the tuna doesn't need to be frozen to maintain its freshness before it reaches port.
Back on land, each fish is cleaned and prepared by hand and every jar is manually filled by an experienced worker, who carefully chooses the best pieces of tuna to include.
The meaty, gently flaking texture and buttery, savoury flavour of these albacore fillets are enhanced by their being packed in high-quality Spanish extra-virgin olive oil.
The result is oceans apart from those woolly-textured, water-packed tins that you'd pick up in the supermarket. It's a high-quality product that's taken time to prepare – and which we suggest you take time to savour.
How to use:
- The best-ever salade Niçoise is a vinaigrette-dressed mix of ripe tomatoes, cucumber, radishes, black olives and hard-boiled eggs, crowned with fillets of Arroyabe white tuna.
- Slices of toasted sourdough topped with white tuna fillets make a simple and simply delicious lunch. Soft-boiled eggs and pickles optional.
- Toss through cooked pasta along with strips of flame-grilled and preserved piquillo pepper for supper.
Details: Available packed in olive oil (212g, 250g and 450g glass jars).
About Arroyabe:
For centuries, the warm waters of the Gulf Stream have shepherded shoals of tuna to the Bay of Biscay, on the 3,000-mile journey from their spawning grounds in the Sargasso Sea. And for just as long, they've been caught by Basque fisherman during their June-to-November season. For the past 120 years, the best of this catch has been preserved by Arroyabe, a family firm from the fishing port of Bermeo. As well as tuna, they preserve anchovies, cockles and garfish – also known as needlefish, due to their long and pointed snouts.
At each stage of the production process, Arroyabe employs production methods that would be familiar to the firm's founders. Tuna, for example, is caught the original and best way using rod-and-line, a low-impact method that doesn't damage the seabed or capture other species, as would happen with trawling.
As you would expect, all its products are certified as sustainable by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC).
The fish is then hand-prepared by skilful and experienced workers who carefully select the best pieces to use. Most are packed in olive oil, which enhances the fish's smooth texture and savoury flavour. Some are packed in water, which brings down the product's calorie count, while some are packed in escabeche – a pickle sauce of oil and vinegar, a traditional method of preserving fish that was used before the advent of sterilisation.
Whichever you choose, you can be sure of the quality. For decades, Arroyabe's seafood has been widely appreciated in its homeland, where it graces the menus of the Basque Country's restaurants, txoko clubs and pintxo bars. Now you can enjoy it at home.


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Willie Mays
|Willie Mays
|Center fielder
Born: May 6, 1931
Westfield, Alabama
MLB debut
|May 25, 1951 for the New York Giants
Last MLB appearance
|September 9, 1973 for the New York Mets
Career statistics
|Batting average
|Home runs
|Runs batted in
|Stolen bases
Career highlights and awards
|94.7% (first ballot)
Willie Howard Mays, Jr. (born May 6, 1931), nicknamed "The Say Hey Kid" is a retired American Major League Baseball (MLB) center fielder who spent almost all of his 22 season career playing for the New York and San Francisco Giants before finishing with the New York Mets. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1979, his first year of eligibility.
Mays won two National League (NL) Most Valuable Player (MVP) awards and shares the record of most All-Star Games played (24) with Hank Aaron and Stan Musial.[1][2] Ted Williams said, "They invented the All-Star Game for Willie Mays."[3][4] Mays ended his career with 660 home runs, third at the time of his retirement, and currently fifth all-time. He also won a record-tying 12 Gold Glove awards beginning in 1957 when the award was introduced.[5]
Willie Mays' career statistics and longevity in the pre-PED era, the more recent acknowledgement of Mays as perhaps the finest five-tool player ever, and the overwhelming consensus of many surveys and other expert analyses carefully examining Mays' relative performance have led to a growing opinion that Mays was possibly the greatest all-around baseball player of all-time.[6] In 1999, Mays placed second on The Sporting News 's "List of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players", making him the highest-ranking living player. Later that year, he was also elected to the Major League Baseball All-Century Team. Mays is one of five National League players to have had eight consecutive 100-RBI seasons, along with Mel Ott, Sammy Sosa, Chipper Jones and Albert Pujols. Mays hit over 50 home runs in 1955 and 1965, representing the longest time span between 50-plus home run seasons for any player in Major League Baseball history. His final Major League Baseball appearance came on October 16 during game 3 of the 1973 World Series.
- 1 Early life
- 2 Professional baseball
- 3 Post-MLB baseball
- 4 Special honors and tributes
- 5 Television appearances
- 6 Personal life
- 7 "Say Hey Kid" and other nicknames
- 8 See also
- 9 Notes
- 10 References
- 11 External links
Early life
Mays was born in Westfield, Alabama, just outside of Bessemer, Alabama. His father, who was named in honor of President William Howard Taft, was a talented baseball player with the Negro team for the local iron plant.[7] His mother, Annie Satterwhite, was a gifted basketball and track star in high school.[8] His parents never married each other.[8] As a baby, Mays was cared for by his mother's younger sisters Sarah and Ernestine. Sarah became the primary female role model in Mays's life.[9] His father exposed him to baseball at an early age, and by the age of five he was playing catch with his father.[10] At age 10, Mays was allowed to sit on the bench of his father's League games.[11]
Mays played multiple sports at Fairfield Industrial High School, averaging a then-record 17 points a game in basketball and more than 40 yards a punt in football, while also playing quarterback.[12] Mays graduated from Fairfield in 1950.[13]
Professional baseball
Negro leagues
Mays' professional baseball career began in 1947, while he was still in high school and played briefly with the Chattanooga Choo-Choos in Tennessee during the summer. A short time later, Mays left the Choo-Choos and returned to his home state to join the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro American League. Mays helped them win their pennant and advance to the 1948 Negro League World Series, where they lost the series 4-1 to the Homestead Grays. Mays hit a respectable .262 for the season, but it was also his excellent fielding and baserunning that made him a standout. By playing professionally with the Black Barons, Mays jeopardized his opportunities to play high school sports in Alabama. This created some problems for him with high school administrators at Fairfield, who wanted him to help the teams and ticket sales.[14]
Over the next several years, a number of Major League baseball franchises sent scouts to watch him play. The first was the Boston Braves. The scout who discovered him, Bud Maughn, had been following him for over a year and referred him to the Braves, who then packaged a deal which called for $7,500 down and $7,500 in 30 days. They also planned to give Mays $6,000. The obstacle in the deal was that Tom Hayes, owner of the Birmingham Black Barons, wanted to keep Mays for the balance of the season. Had the team been able to act more quickly, the Braves franchise might have had both Mays and Hank Aaron in their outfield from 1954 to 1973. The Brooklyn Dodgers also scouted him and wanted Ray Blades to negotiate a deal, but were too late. The New York Giants had already signed Mays for $4,000 and assigned him to their Class-B affiliate in Trenton, New Jersey.[15]
Minor leagues
After Mays had a batting average of .353 in Trenton, N.J., he began the 1951 season with the class AAA Minneapolis Millers of the American Association. During his short time span in Minneapolis, Mays played with two other future Hall of Famers: Hoyt Wilhelm and Ray Dandridge. Batting .477 in 35 games and playing excellent defense, Mays was called up to the Giants on May 24, 1951. Mays was at a movie theater in Sioux City, Iowa when he found out he was being called up. A message flashed up on the screen that said: "WILLIE MAYS CALL YOUR HOTEL."[16] He appeared in his first major league game the next day in Philadelphia. Mays moved to Harlem, New York, where his mentor was a New York State Boxing Commission official and former Harlem Rens basketball legend "Strangler" Frank Forbes.
Major leagues
New York Giants (1951–57)
Mays began his major league career with no hits in his first 23 at bats. On his 24th at bat, he hit a homer over the left field fence of the Polo Grounds off future Hall of Famer Warren Spahn.[17] Spahn later joked, "I'll never forgive myself. We might have gotten rid of Willie forever if I'd only struck him out." Mays' average improved steadily throughout the rest of the season. Although his .274 average, 68 RBI and 20 homers (in 121 games) were among the lowest of his career, he still won the 1951 Rookie of the Year Award. During the Giants' comeback in August and September 1951 to overtake the Dodgers in the 1951 pennant race, Mays' fielding, and strong arm were instrumental to several important Giants victories.[18] Mays ended the regular season in the on-deck circle when Bobby Thomson hit the Shot Heard 'Round the World against the Brooklyn Dodgers to win the three-game playoff 2-1 after the teams had tied at the end of the regular season.
The Giants went on to meet the New York Yankees in the 1951 World Series. Mays was part of the first all-African-American outfield in major league history, along with Hank Thompson and Hall of Famer Monte Irvin in game one of the 1951 World Series.[19] Mays hit poorly, while the Giants lost the series 4-2. The six-game set was the only time that Mays and the aging Joe DiMaggio would play on the same field.[20]
Mays was a popular figure in Harlem. Magazine photographers were fond of chronicling his participation in local stickball games with kids. It was said that in the urban game of hitting a rubber ball with an adapted broomstick handle, Mays could hit a shot that measured "six sewers" (the distance of six consecutive New York City manhole covers, nearly 300 feet).[21][22]
U.S. Army (1952–53)
The United States Army drafted Mays in 1952 during the Korean War (1950–53) and he subsequently missed most of the that season and all of the 1953 season. Mays spent much of his time in the Army playing baseball at Fort Eustis, Virginia.[23] It was at Fort Eustis that Mays learned the basket catch from a fellow Fort Eustis outfielder, Al Fortunato. Mays missed about 266 games due to military service.
Mays returned to the Giants in 1954, hitting for a league-leading .345 batting average and slugging 41 home runs. Mays won the National League Most Valuable Player Award and the Hickok Belt as top professional athlete of the year. He also was selected as an All-Star for the first of 19 consecutive seasons (20 total)[24][25] and replaced Jackie Robinson at left field during the 4th inning of the All-Star Game. The Giants won the National League pennant and the 1954 World Series, sweeping the Cleveland Indians in four games. The 1954 series is perhaps best remembered for "The Catch", an over-the-shoulder running grab by Mays in deep center field of the Polo Grounds of a long drive off the bat of Vic Wertz during the eighth inning of game 1. Considered the iconic image of Mays' playing career and one of baseball's most memorable fielding plays,[26] the catch prevented two Indian runners from scoring, preserving a tie game. The Giants won the game in the 10th inning on a three-run home run by Dusty Rhodes, with Mays scoring the winning run. The 1954 World Series was the team's last championship while based in New York. The next time was 56 years later when the San Francisco Giants won the World Series in 2010.
Mays went on to perform at a high level each of the last three years the Giants were in New York. In 1955 he led the league with 51 home runs. In 1956, he hit 36 homers and stole 40 bases, being only the second player, and first National League player, to join the "30-30 club". In 1957, the first season the Gold Glove award was presented, he won the first of 12 consecutive Gold Glove Awards. At the same time, Mays continued to finish in the National League's top-five in a variety of offensive categories. Mays, Roberto Clemente (also with 12), Al Kaline, Andruw Jones, Ken Griffey, Jr. and Ichiro Suzuki are the only outfielders to have ten or more career Gold Gloves. In 1957, Mays become the fourth player in Major League history to join the 20–20–20 club (2B, 3B, HR), something no player had accomplished since 1941. Mays also stole 38 bases that year, making him the second player in baseball history (after Frank Schulte in 1911) to reach 20 in each of those four categories (doubles, triples, homers, steals) in the same season.
San Francisco Giants (1958–72)
After the 1957 season, the Giants franchise and Mays relocated to San Francisco, California. Mays bought two homes in San Francisco, then lived in nearby Atherton.[27][28] As he did in 1954, Mays vied for the National League batting title in 1958 until the final game of the season. Mays collected three hits in the game to finish with a career-high .347, but Philadelphia Phillies' Richie Ashburn won the title with a .350 batting average. He did manage to share the inaugural NL Player of the Month award with Stan Musial in May (no such award was given out in April until 1969), batting .405 with 12 HR and 29 RBI; he won a second such award in September (.434, 4 HR, 18 RBIs).
In 1959, the Giants led by two games with only eight games to play, but only won two of their remaining games and finished fourth, as their pitching staff collapsed due to overwork of their top hurlers. The Dodgers won the pennant following a playoff with the Milwaukee Braves.[29] As he did in New York, Mays would "play around" with kids playing sandlot ball in San Francisco. On three occasions in 1959 or 1960, he visited Julius Kahn Playground, five blocks from where he lived, including one time Giant players Jim Davenport and Tom Haller.[citation needed]
Alvin Dark was hired to manage the Giants before the start of the 1961 season and named Mays team captain. The improving Giants finished 1961 in third place and won 85 games, more than any of the previous six campaigns. Mays had one of his best games on April 30, 1961, hitting four home runs against the Milwaukee Braves in County Stadium. Mays went four for five at the plate and was on deck for a chance to hit a record fifth home run when the Giants' half of the ninth inning ended.[30][31] Mays is the only Major Leaguer to have both three triples in a game and four home runs in a game.[32][33]
The Giants won the National League pennant in 1962, with Mays leading the team in eight offensive categories. The team finished the regular season in a tie for first place with the Los Angeles Dodgers, and went on to win a three-game playoff series against the Dodgers, advancing to play in the World Series. The Giants lost to the Yankees in seven games, and Mays batted .250 with two extra-base hits. It was his last World Series appearance as a member of the Giants.
In the 1963 and 1964 seasons Mays batted in over 100 runs and hit 85 total home runs. On July 2, 1963, Mays played in a game when future Hall of Fame members Warren Spahn and Juan Marichal each threw 15 scoreless innings. In the bottom of the 16th inning, Mays hit a home run off Spahn for a 1–0 Giants victory.[34] He won his third NL Player of the Month Award in August (.387, 8 HR, 27 RBI).
Mays won his second MVP award in 1965 behind a career-high 52 home runs. On September 13, 1965, he hit his 500th career home run off Don Nottebart. Warren Spahn, off whom Mays hit his first career home run, was his teammate at the time. After the home run, Spahn greeted Mays in the dugout, asking "Was it anything like the same feeling?" Mays replied "It was exactly the same feeling. Same pitch, too."[35] On August 22, 1965, Mays and Sandy Koufax acted as peacemakers during a 14-minute brawl between the Giants and Dodgers after San Francisco pitcher Juan Marichal had bloodied Dodgers catcher John Roseboro with a bat.[36] He also won his fourth and final NL Player of the Month award in August (.363, 17 HR, 29 RBI), while setting the NL record for most home runs in the month of August (since tied by Sammy Sosa in 2001).
Mays played in over 150 games for 13 consecutive years (a major-league record) from 1954 to 1966. In 1966, his last with 100 RBIs, Mays finished third in the National League MVP voting. It was the ninth and final time he finished in the top five in the voting for the award.[37] In 1970, the Sporting News named Mays as the 1960s "Player of the Decade."
Mays hit his 600th home run off San Diego's Mike Corkins in September 1969. Plagued by injuries that season, he managed only 13 home runs. Mays enjoyed a resurgence in 1970, hitting 28 homers, and got off to a fast start in 1971, the year he turned 40. He had 15 home runs at the All-Star break but faded down the stretch and finished with 18. Mays helped the Giants win the division title that year, but they lost the NLCS to the Pittsburgh Pirates.
During his time on the Giants, Mays was friends with fellow player Bobby Bonds. When Bobby's son, Barry Bonds, was born, Bobby asked Willie Mays to be Barry's godfather. Mays and the younger Bonds have maintained a close relationship ever since.[38]
New York Mets (1972–73)
In May 1972, the 41-year-old Mays was traded to the New York Mets for pitcher Charlie Williams and $50,000 ($281,901 today).[39] At the time, the Giants franchise was losing money. Owner Horace Stoneham could not guarantee Mays an income after retirement and the Mets offered Mays a coaching position upon his retirement.[40]
Mays had remained popular in New York long after the Giants had left for San Francisco, and the trade was seen as a public relations coup for the Mets. Mets owner Joan Whitney Payson, who was a minority shareholder of the Giants when the team was in New York, had long desired to bring Mays back to his baseball roots and was instrumental in making the trade.[41] On May 14, 1972, in his Mets debut, Mays put New York ahead to stay with a fifth-inning home run against Don Carrithers and his former team, the Giants, on a rainy Sunday afternoon at Shea Stadium. Then on August 17, 1973, in a game against the Cincinnati Reds with Don Gullett on the mound, Willie hit a fourth inning solo home run over the right-center field fence. It was the 660th, and last, home run of his major league career.
Mays played a season and a half with the Mets before retiring, appearing in 133 games. The New York Mets honored him on September 25, 1973, (Willie Mays Night) where he thanked the New York fans and said goodbye to America. He finished his career in the 1973 World Series, which the Mets lost to the Oakland Athletics in seven games. Mays got the first hit of the Series, but had only seven at-bats (with two hits). His final hit of his career came in Game 2, a key single to help the Mets win. He also fell down in the outfield during a play where he was hindered by the glare of the sun and by the hard outfield. Mays later said, "growing old is just a helpless hurt." His final at bat came on October 16, in Game 3 where he came in as a pinch hitter but grounded into a force play. Mays made his 20th and last All-Star appearance (20 seasons)[42]and 24th All-Star Game appearance[43] on July 24, 1973 when he was used as a pinch hitter.
In 1972 and 1973, Mays was the oldest regular position player in baseball. He became the oldest position player to appear in a World Series game.[44] Mays retired after the 1973 season with a lifetime batting average of .302 and 660 home runs. His lifetime total of 7,095 outfield fielding putouts remains the major league record.[45]Mays is the only Major League player to have hit a home run in every inning from the 1st through the 16th innings.[46] He finished his career with a record 22 extra-inning home runs.
Post-MLB baseball
After Mays stopped playing baseball, he remained an active personality. Just as he had during his playing days, Mays continued to appear on various TV shows, in films and in other forms of non-sports-related media. He remained in the New York Mets organization as their hitting instructor until the end of the 1979 season.[47] It was there where he taught future Mets' star Lee Mazzilli his famous basket catch.[48]
On January 23, 1979, Mays was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility. He garnered 409 of the 432 ballots cast (roughly 95 percent);[49] referring to the other 23 voters, acerbic New York Daily News columnist Dick Young wrote, "If Jesus Christ were to show up with his old baseball glove, some guys wouldn't vote for him. He dropped the cross three times, didn't he?"[26]
Mays took up golf a few years after his promotion to the major leagues and quickly became an accomplished player, playing to a handicap of about four. After he retired, he played golf frequently in the San Francisco area.[50]
Shortly after his Hall of Fame election, Mays took a job at the Park Place Casino (now Bally's Atlantic City) in Atlantic City, New Jersey. While there, he served as a Special Assistant to the Casino's President and as a greeter. After being told by Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn that he could not be both a coach and baseball goodwill ambassador while at the same time working for Bally's, Mays chose to terminate his baseball relationships.[51] In 1985 Peter Ueberroth, Kuhn's successor, decided to allow Mays and Mickey Mantle to return to baseball.[52] Like Mays, Mantle had gone to work for an Atlantic City casino and had to give up any baseball positions he held.[53]
At the Pittsburgh drug trials in 1985, former Mets teammate John Milner testified that Mays kept a bottle of liquid amphetamine in his locker at Shea Stadium. Milner admitted, however, that he had never seen Mays use amphetamines and Mays himself denied ever having taken any drugs during his career.[54]
Since 1986, Willie Mays has served as Special Assistant to the President of the San Francisco Giants. Mays' number 24 is retired by the San Francisco Giants. AT&T Park, the Giants stadium, is located at 24 Willie Mays Plaza. In front of the main entrance to the stadium is a larger-than-life statue of Mays. He also serves on the advisory board of the Baseball Assistance Team, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to helping former Major League, Minor League, and Negro league players through financial and medical difficulties.
On February 10, 2010, Mays appeared on The Daily Show, discussing his career and a new biography, Willie Mays: The Life, the Legend, by James S. Hirsch.[55]
A frequent traveler, Mays is one of 66 holders of American Airlines' lifetime passes.[56]
Special honors and tributes
|Willie Mays's number 24 was retired by the San Francisco Giants in 1972.
When Mays' godson Barry Bonds tied him for third on the all-time home run list, Mays greeted and presented him with a diamond-studded Olympic torch (given to Mays when he carried the torch during its tour through the United States). In 1992, when Bonds signed a free agent contract with the Giants, Mays personally offered Bonds his retired #24 (the number Bonds wore in Pittsburgh) but Bonds declined, electing to wear #25 instead, honoring his father, Bobby Bonds, who wore that number with the Giants.[57]
Willie Mays Day was proclaimed by former mayor Willie Brown and reaffirmed by mayor Gavin Newsom to be every May 24 in San Francisco, paying tribute not only to his birth in the month (May 6), but also to his name (Mays) and jersey number (24). The date is also the anniversary of his call-up to the major leagues.[58]
On May 24, 2004, during the 50-year anniversary of The Catch, Mays received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters degree from Yale University.[59]
On December 6, 2005, he received the Bobby Bragan Youth Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award for his accomplishments on and off the field.
On July 30, 2006, he was the Tee Ball Commissioner at 2006 White House Tee Ball Initiative[60]
On June 10, 2007, Mays received an honorary doctorate from Dartmouth College.
At the 2007 All-Star Game in San Francisco, Mays received a special tribute for his legendary contributions to the game and threw out the ceremonial first pitch.
On December 5, 2007, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver inducted Mays into the California Hall of Fame, located at The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts.[61]
On June 4, 2008, Community Board 10 in Harlem voted unanimously to name an eight-block service road that connects to the Harlem River Drive from 155th Street to 163rd Street running adjacent to his beloved Polo Grounds—Willie Mays Drive.[62]
On May 23, 2009, Mays gave the commencement address at San Francisco State University and received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters.
On July 14, 2009, he accompanied U.S. President Barack Obama to St. Louis aboard Air Force One for the Major League All-Star Game.[63]
On March 19, 2010, he was inducted into the African-American Ethnic Sports Hall of Fame[64]
On May 6, 2010, on the occasion of his 79th birthday, Mays appeared on the floor of the California State Senate where they proclaimed it Willie Mays Day in the state.
On May 15, 2010, Mays was awarded the Major League Baseball Beacon of Life Award at the Civil Rights game at Great American Ballpark.
Mays was mentioned or referenced in many popular songs. The Treniers recorded the song "Say Hey (The Willie Mays Song)" in 1955. The band Widespread Panic makes reference to Mays in the song "One Arm Steve" from their album 'Til the Medicine Takes. Terry Cashman's song Talkin' Baseball has the refrain "Willie, Mickey and the Duke", which subsequently became the title of an award given by the New York Baseball Writers Association.[65] John Fogerty mentioned Mays, Ty Cobb and Joe DiMaggio in his song Centerfield. His name was also used on the album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan in the song "I Shall Be Free", and in Gil Scott-Heron's song The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. Chuck Prophet wrote the song "Willie Mays is Up at Bat" for his 2012 "Temple Beautiful" album, a tribute to San Francisco.
Mays was also mentioned numerous times in Charles M. Schulz's comic strip Peanuts. One of the more famous of these strips was originally published on February 9, 1966. In it, Charlie Brown is competing in a class spelling bee and he is asked to spell the word, "Maze". He erroneously spells it, M-A-Y-S and screams out his dismay when he is eliminated. When Charlie Brown is later sent to the principal's office for raising his voice at the teacher regarding the incident, he wonders if one day he will meet Willie Mays and will have a good laugh together about the incident.[66]
Willie Mays Parkway and Willie Mays Park in Orlando, Florida were named after the 1951 National League Rookie of the Year.
Mays also appears on Calle 13's "Adentro" music video, where he gives to lead singer, René Pérez a bag containing a pair of sunglasses, a Roberto Clemente's baseball uniform, and a baseball bat signed by him, who then will be used by René to destroy his own luxury car, a Maserati, in an attempt to widespread a message to youth about how irresponsible promoting of ostentatious luxury excesses in urban music as a status symbol, have them all killing between themselves.[67][68]
1956 Willie Mays Major League Negro-American All-Stars Tour
In 1956, Mays got many of Major League Baseball's biggest black stars to go on a tour around the country after the season had ended to play exhibition games. While much of the tour was undocumented, one venue was Andrews Field,[69] located in Fort Smith, Arkansas, on October 16. Among the players who played in that game were Mays, Frank Robinson, Hank Aaron, Elston Howard, Monte Irvin, Gene Baker, Charlie Johnson, Sam Jones, Hank Thompson and Joe Black.
Television appearances
In addition to appearances in baseball documentaries and on talk shows, Mays has appeared in several sitcoms over the years, always as himself. He appeared as the mystery guest during different incarnations of the long running game show What's My Line?. He was in three episodes of ABC's The Donna Reed Show: "Play Ball" and "My Son the Catcher" (both 1964) and "Calling Willie Mays" (1966). Also in 1966, he appeared in the "Twitch or Treat" episode of Bewitched, in which Darrin Stephens asks if Mays is a warlock, and Samantha Stephens replies, "The way he hits? What else?" In 1989, he appeared in My Two Dads, in the episode "You Love Me, Right?", and in the episode "The Field" of Mr. Belvedere. Additionally, he had performed "Say Hey: The Willie Mays Song" on episode 4.46 of The Colgate Comedy Hour in 1954.[70]
Personal life
Mays married Margherite Wendell Chapman (1926–2010) in 1956, and they adopted their son Michael, who was born in 1959.[71] The couple divorced in 1962 or 1963, varying by source. Mays married Mae Louise Allen in November 1971. Allen died on April 19, 2013, after a long battle with Alzheimer's.[72] Mays has resided in Atherton, California since 1969.[73]
"Say Hey Kid" and other nicknames
It is not clear how Mays became known as the "Say Hey Kid." One story is that in 1951, Barney Kremenko, a writer for the New York Journal, proceeded to refer to Mays as the 'Say Hey Kid' after he overheard Mays say, "'Say who,' 'Say what,' 'Say where,' 'Say hey,'".[74] Another story is that Jimmy Cannon created the nickname because Mays did not know everybody's names when he first arrived in the minors. "You see a guy, you say, 'Hey, man. Say hey, man,' " Mays said. "Ted [Williams] was the 'Splinter'. Joe [DiMaggio] was 'Joltin' Joe'. Stan [Musial] was 'The Man'. I guess I hit a few home runs, and they said 'There goes the 'Say Hey Kid."[75]
Years before he became the "Say Hey Kid", when he began his professional career with the Black Barons, Mays was called "Buck" by teammates and fans.[76] Some Giants players referred to him, their team captain, as "Cap."
See also
- Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame
- 500 home run club
- List of Major League Baseball Home Run Records
- List of top 300 Major League Baseball home run hitters
- List of major league players with 2,000 hits
- List of Major League Baseball players with 400 doubles
- List of Major League Baseball players with 100 triples
- List of Major League Baseball players with 1000 runs
- List of Major League Baseball players with 1000 RBIs
- List of Major League Baseball leaders in career stolen bases
- 3000 hit club
- 30-30 club
- 20–20–20 club
- 50 home run club
- List of Major League Baseball batting champions
- List of Major League Baseball home run champions
- List of Major League Baseball runs scored champions
- List of Major League Baseball stolen base champions
- List of Major League Baseball triples champions
- Batters with four home runs in one game
- Major League Baseball titles leaders
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- ^ Baseball Almanac: Miscellaneous All-Star Game Records, All-Star Game Record Book, "Most Games Played", Aaron, Mays, Musial, 24. Retrieved July 21, 2013. [2]
- ^ National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum: The Hall of Famers
- ^ Willie's Time, by Charles Einstein.
- ^ MLB Awards | MLB.com: History
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- Kalb, Elliott (2005). Who's Better, Who's Best in Baseball?: Mr. Stats Sets the Record Straight on the Top 75 Players of All Time. McGraw-Hill Professional. pp. 35–36. ISBN 0-07-144538-2.
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- Markusen, Bruce (2000). Roberto Clemente: The Great One. Sports Publishing LLC. p. 140. ISBN 1-58261-312-5.
- Hinton, Chuck (2002). My Time at Bat: A Story of Perseverance. Christian Living Books. p. 59. ISBN 1-56229-003-7.
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- ^ James S. Hirsch (2010). Willie Mays: The Life, the Legend. Scribner. p. 11. ISBN 978-1-4165-4790-7.
- ^ a b Hirsch, p. 12
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- ^ Hirsch, p. 14
- ^ Hirsch, p. 15
- ^ Willie Mays Quotes - BrainyQuote
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- ^ Hirsch, p. 38-48
- ^ June 22, 1950 letter from Eddie Montague to Jack Schwarz
- ^ The Giants of the Polo Grounds by Noel Hynd (1988). New York: Doubleday. page 358. ISBN 0-385 23790-1
- ^ ESPN.com: Mays brought joy to baseball
- ^ Willie Mays, by Matt von Albade, Tempo Books, Grosset & Dunlop, Inc. NY. copyright 1966, pp. 60–75 first printing, August 1966, Library of Congress Number 66-17205
- ^ Willie Mays, by Arnold Hano, Tempo Books, Grosset & Dunlop, Inc. NY. copyright 1966, p.80 first printing, August 1966, Library of Congress Number 66-17205
- ^ The Series, an illustrated history of Baseball's postseason showcase, 1903–1993, The Sporting News, copyright 1993, The Sporting News Publishing Co. pp. 144–145 ISBN 0-89204-476-4
- ^ Jim Rednour, Willie Mays Learned To Hit Curveball Playing Stickball with Kids During Rookie Year In The Bigs Retrieved April 9, 2011
- ^ Willie Mays & Stickball in Harlem Retrieved April 9, 2011
- ^ BIOPROJ.SABR.ORG :: The Baseball Biography Project
- ^ Baseball Hall of Fame, Willie Mays, "20-time All-Star" [3] Retrieved April 10, 2015
- ^ Donnelly, Patrick. SportsData LLC. (2012). Midsummer Classics: Celebrating MLB's All-Star Game. 1959–1962: "all players who were named to the AL or NL roster were credited with one appearance per season" http://www.sportsdatallc.com/2012/07/09/midsummer-classics-celebrating-mlbs-all-star-game. SportsData http://www.sportsdatallc.com. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
- ^ a b ESPN.com: The Say Hey Kid
- ^ Streetwise: Willie Mays – Western Neighborhoods Project – San Francisco History
- ^ Mary Kay Linge, Willie Mays: A Biography (Greenwood Press, 2005), p.151.
- ^ The Sports Encyclopedia: Baseball (6th edition), 1985.
- ^ April 30, 1961 box score and play-by-play. Mays flied out to center field in leading off the fifth.
- ^ The Baseball Page
- ^ September 15, 1960 San Francisco Giants at Philadelphia Phillies Play by Play and Box Score – Baseball-Reference.com
- ^ April 30, 1961 San Francisco Giants at Milwaukee Braves Box Score and Play by Play – Baseball-Reference.com
- ^ July 2, 1963 Milwaukee Braves at San Francisco Giants Box Score and Play by Play – Baseball-Reference.com
- ^ Einstein, Charles (April 15, 2004). "The majesty of Mays". The San Francisco Chronicle.
- ^ Vass, George (2000). "Letting Off Steam - confrontations between players, fans and umpires". Baseball Digest.
- ^ He also finished sixth in the balloting three times.
- ^ Q: Are Barry Bonds and Willie Mays Related? | Blogcritics
- ^ "Mays Trade (at bottom)". Retrieved October 22, 2006.
- ^ Shaun McCormack, Willie Mays (Rosen Publishing Group, 2003).
- ^ Post, Paul; and Lucas, Ed. "Turn back the clock: Willie Mays played a vital role on '73 mets; despite his age, future Hall of Famer helped young New York club capture the 1973 National League pennant", Baseball Digest, March 2003. Accessed July 15, 2008. "Mets owner Joan Payson had always wanted to bring the 'Say Hey Kid' back to his baseball roots, and she finally pulled it off in a deal that shocked the baseball world."
- ^ Baseball Hall of Fame, Willie Mays, "20-time All-Star" [4] Retrieved April 10, 2015
- ^ Sportsdata. Midsummer Classics: Celebrating MLB's All-Star Game. "there were two games a year from 1959 to 1962" ..."all players who were named to the AL or NL roster were credited one appearance per season." Retrieved July 18, 2013 [5]
- ^ Willie's Time, by Charles Einstein
- ^ "Career Leaders & Records for Putouts as OF". Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved February 11, 2011.
- ^ An Offbeat Record Held By Willie Mays | SABR
- ^ "Mays on the IMDBb". Retrieved October 22, 2006.
- ^ For Mazzilli, nothing like meeting Mays | mets.com: News
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- ^ Ueberroth reinstates Mays, Mantle to baseball
- ^ Bowie bounces Mantle
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- ^ "FEBRUARY 10, 2010 - WILLIE MAYS". The Daily Show. February 10, 2010.
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- ^ "Bonds to Wear No. 25". New York Times. December 11, 1992.
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- ^ Archived June 4, 2004 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ White House South Lawn Tee Ball
- ^ Mays inducted into California Hall of Fame. California Museum. Retrieved 2007.
- ^ Lombardi, Frank (July 5, 2008). "Street fight leaves Willie Mays benched". New York Daily News.
- ^ Willie Mays aboard Air Force One with President Obama on YouTube
- ^ http://www.budwinter.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/OaklandInductionCeremony_HOFver2.pdf
- ^ Willie, Mickey and the Duke Award
- ^ Charles M. Schulz MuseumWillie Mays and A Charlie Brown Christmas | Charles M. Schulz Museum
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- ^ Andrews Field Minor League History - Baseball-Reference.com
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- ^ "Willie Mays named 'history maker' by San Mateo County". Palo Alto Online. September 25, 2012.
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- ^ Shea, John (May 3, 2006). "Article on Mays". The San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved October 21, 2006.
- ^ "eMuseum: Willie Mays". Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. Retrieved March 9, 2007.
- David Pietrusza, Matthew Silverman & Michael Gershman, ed. (2000). Baseball: The Biographical Encyclopedia. Total/Sports Illustrated.
- Willie's Time: A Memoir of Another America, by Charles Einstein
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- The Series, an illustrated history of Baseball's postseason showcase, 1903–1993, The Sporting News, copyright 1993, The Sporting News Publishing Co. ISBN 0-89204-476-4/
External links
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- Willie Mays at the Baseball Hall of Fame
- Career statistics and player information from MLB, or ESPN, or Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube, or Baseball-Reference (Minors)
- Negro league baseball statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference (Negro leagues)
- Willie Mays article, Encyclopedia of Alabama
- May 1951: Minneapolis Tribune account of Mays' first home game as a Minneapolis Miller
- Willie Mays: Say Hey! – slideshow by Life magazine
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (MarketWatch) — Don't be fooled into buying gold in hopes of a short-term bounce in April.
While bullion's intermediate-term prospects may very well be better than they are for just the next few weeks — and may even have improved recently as gold dropped $100 an ounce to below the psychologically important $1300 level — its short-term prospects don't appear very attractive. That, at least, is the conclusion of a contrarian analysis of gold sentiment, which my research has shown to have decent forecasting ability over the ensuing month or so.
Consider the average recommended gold-market exposure level of a subset of short-term gold timers tracked by the Hulbert Financial Digest, as measured by the Hulbert Gold Newsletter Sentiment Index (HGNSI). This average currently stands at 16.7%, down from 50% as recently as the first week of March.
While this decline in average recommended exposure level is encouraging from a contrarian point of view, it's not enough to convince contrarians that a tradeable bottom is at hand. After all, gold itself has plunged nearly $100 an ounce in just a couple of weeks, and a drop of that speed and magnitude would normally translate into a bigger HGNSI drop than we've seen over the last few weeks.
Take a look at the accompanying graph, which plots the HGNSI against gold bullion over the last couple of years. Notice that, even with the big recent drop in this sentiment index, the HGNSI still stands well above the low levels to which it fell last summer and late last fall. On both of those prior occasions, the HGNSI fell well into negative territory, which meant that the average monitored gold timer was actually recommending that his clients be net short the gold market.
And, as you can also see from the chart, both of those low HGNSI readings came within days of a tradeable bottom in the gold market.
So the current HGNSI level suggests that the gold-timing community is not anywhere nearly as worried as it was on either of those two prior occasions. And since the gold market likes to climb a wall of worry, this, in turn, suggests that bullion has more downside work to do before it can mount a serious rally attempt.
To be sure, since sentiment can change quickly, it's possible that this tradeable low could occur during April. You'll know that it's close at hand if the average gold timer completely throws in the towel on gold and starts betting aggressively on even lower gold prices — as indicated by such things as a significantly negative HGNSI reading.
There's no way of knowing in advance when that sentiment low will occur. In any case, the contrarian bet at the beginning of April is that even lower gold prices will be registered later this month.
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Isoboramine (also spelled as isoboromine) was a neurotransmitter in Trill physiology which regulated the connections between the host and the symbiont. Low isoboramine levels were harmful and could be fatal to the host and/or symbiont, so if isoboramine levels dropped below 40%, then the symbiont was removed. This would kill the host, but any joined Trill would willingly sacrifice themselves in order to save their symbiont.
Official records at the Trill Symbiosis Commission stated that in 2285, when Torias Dax was in a shuttle accident, he was placed in a coma. He was left in a vegetative state until his isoboramine levels eventually fell below 40% and the symbiont had to be removed. In actuality, the symbiont had been transferred to Joran Belar.
In 2371, Jadzia Dax's isoboramine levels fell dangerously low when a chemical memory blocker was wearing off in the Dax symbiont. (DS9: "Equilibrium")
External link
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So off we go to the top floor of the HenHouse. The Munchkin kindly made me a sign for my door...
Ss you could not have failed to notice, I already have my beloved Den where most of my crafting takes place. However, once I became rather obsessed with quilting and started to make a lot of quilts (I think it is now over one hundred), I realised that my old arthritic bones were not going allow me to keep crawling round on the hard wooden floors to baste my quilts. So I started to think about getting a sizeable table and decided that a table tennis table would be just the ticket. Massive and relatively cheap! I shoe horned this into a guest bedroom and popped up there just when I needed to baste and quilt. It was a Godsend. After a while, I decided that we could do without the guest room and I suppose I sort of took the room over as my own. I packed the furniture off to a charity which then gives it to homeless people getting their first council property and the rest, as they say, is history.
Enter zone number two of my mini empire!
It is dominated by that massive table. Pretty it ain't but practical it certainly is. This is quite a big room, good job as the table is 5 feet wide and 9 feet long. It is otherwise quite cute really, with it's fireplace, built-in tongue and groove cupboards and a sloping ceiling along one side. This would have been a servants' room back in the heyday of this house, it is noticeable how much less elaborate the features are as you progress up the house.
Over in the corner, I have a rather fetching old kitchen cupboard which I bought from some favourite sellers on Bridport's street market. Inside, it has its original red gingham sticky-backed plastic lining the shelves.
On top, my lovely working vintage machine was a £15 bargain from the same street market and is accompanied by other bits and bobs of the vintage variety which I have picked up on my travels. The cute spools mini quilt is a Camille Roskelly design.
Over on the other side, I have my desk and all its useful books, notions and so on. The vintage typewriter was £3 from a car boot sale whilst in contrast, the desk, shelves and chair are modern from Ikea. My beloved Mac lamp was an Ebay purchase (splurge!) The rather pretty rose print curtains are also vintage and came from a now closed-down shop in Dulwich for £10, or was it £15, I cannot remember.
This felt fox was made using a pattern in Mollie Makes magazine. I love the spines on the vintage books.
My much loved Sylko cotton reel drawers are in pride of place.
This blanket was my first ever crochet project.
Next to my desk, I have a set of Ikea shelves which houses all sorts of things including backing fabrics, quilt batting, magazines and lots of little crafty makes, many made on workshops with Julie Arkell.
I store some quilts on top.
The focal point of the room is the little fireplace which I've highlighted with a pretty green paint (a mix of various shades). It is home to some more handmade papier mache and stitchy creatures and some fab old vintage sewing bits 'n' bobs.
So finally, the last wall looks likes this.
There's my favourite quilt alongside a makeshift old quilt ladder.
The quite splendid vintage kitchen cabinet came from Ebay. Not my best purchase, we travelled to Hampshire and back to collect it only to find it was in pretty awful condition. Thanks to Mr HenHouse and his patience, it has now been restored to its former glory and most importantly, is home to all sorts of lovely goodies.
In the top, I keep a lot of my vintage haberdashery finds which are a particular weakness of mine.
I lined this section with pretty Liberty print wrapping paper which can be seen when the glass doors are shut. The drawer is home to some vintage millinery flowers and my prized hand painted belt buckles. The middle cupboard has tins of yet more vintage haberdashery and also some of my vintage felt collection (I think I can now call it a collection!) In the bottom is my motley pile of old shirts and sheeting fabrics which I've been amassing for a few years now.
Anyway, now to the news. Are you sitting comfortably? On Sunday, I finally had reason to pile up all those quilts...
...take out all my beloved felty needlecases...
...and get packing!
And otherwise turning the HenHouse into cardboard city!
Not just my quilting room but my Den too. Yikes!
That's just the tip of the iceberg. I'm pleased to share with you that the time has finally come for us to realise our dream and perform our very own escape to the country. In just over a week's time, the whole of the HenHouse will be packed into quite a lot of vans and moved many miles away to our beloved West Country.
So my friends, I hope this goes some way to explain my continued sporadic posting recently, there has been an awful lot going on for the last six months, and to let you know that it's going to be a little while until I shall be back here again. It's so long old HenHouse and hello new. Next time, there will be a new HenHouse, a new Den and all sorts of exciting stuff to look forward to. We are ready. Well, we will be when all those boxes are filled!
Cherio X
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Date(s) - 31/10/2020
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Established in 2002, Willunga Farmers Market, South Australia's first farmers market, is the regional hub for the community and visitors to gather and buy fresh, local and seasonal produce in the McLaren Vale region.
Held every Saturday in the Willunga Town Square, more than 80 farmers and artisan food producers from the region sell their fresh produce; rain, hail or shine.
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How do you define genocide?
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Genocide is understood by most to be the gravest crime against humanity it is possible to commit.
It is the mass extermination of a whole group of people, an attempt to wipe them out of existence.
But at the heart of this simple idea is a complicated tangle of legal definitions.
So what is genocide and when can that term be applied?
UN definition
The term was coined in 1943 by the Jewish-Polish lawyer Raphael Lemkin who combined the Greek word "genos" (race or tribe) with the Latin word "cide" (to kill).
After witnessing the horrors of the Holocaust, in which every member of his family except his brother was killed, Dr Lemkin campaigned to have genocide recognised as a crime under international law.
His efforts gave way to the adoption of the UN Convention on Genocide in December 1948, which came into effect in January 1951.
Article Two of the convention defines genocide as "any of the following acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such":
- Killing members of the group
- Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group
- Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part
- Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group
- Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group
The convention also imposes a general duty on states that are signatories to "prevent and to punish" genocide.
Since its adoption, the UN treaty has come under fire from different sides, mostly by people frustrated with the difficulty of applying it to specific cases.
They argue that the definition is too narrow. Others say the term is devalued by misuse.
Some analysts contend that the definition is so narrow that none of the mass killings perpetrated since the treaty's adoption would fall under it.
The objections most frequently raised against the treaty include:
- The convention excludes targeted political and social groups
- The definition is limited to direct acts against people, and excludes acts against the environment which sustains them or their cultural distinctiveness
- Proving intention beyond reasonable doubt is extremely difficult
- UN member states are hesitant to single out other members or intervene, as was the case in Rwanda
- There is no body of international law to clarify the parameters of the convention (though this is changing as UN war crimes tribunals issue indictments)
- The difficulty of defining or measuring "in part", and establishing how many deaths equal genocide
But in spite of these criticisms, there are many who say genocide is recognisable.
In his book Rwanda and Genocide in the 20th Century, former secretary-general of Medecins Sans Frontieres, Alain Destexhe, says: "Genocide is distinguishable from all other crimes by the motivation behind it.
"Genocide is a crime on a different scale to all other crimes against humanity and implies an intention to completely exterminate the chosen group.
"Genocide is therefore both the gravest and greatest of the crimes against humanity."
Loss of meaning
But Mr Destexhe believes the word genocide has fallen victim to "a sort of verbal inflation, in much the same way as happened with the word fascist".
He says the term has progressively lost its initial meaning and is becoming "dangerously commonplace".
Michael Ignatieff, director of the Carr Centre for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University, agrees.
"Those who should use the word genocide never let it slip their mouths. Those who unfortunately do use it, banalise it into a validation of every kind of victimhood," he said in a lecture about Raphael Lemkin.
"Slavery, for example, is called genocide when - whatever it was, and it was an infamy - it was a system to exploit, rather than to exterminate the living."
The differences over how genocide should be defined have also led to disagreements on how many genocides actually occurred during the 20th Century.
History of genocide
Some say there was only one genocide in the last century: the Holocaust.
However, others say there have been at least three genocides under the 1948 UN convention:
- The mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks between 1915-1920, an accusation that the Turks deny
- The Holocaust, during which more than six million Jews were killed
- Rwanda, where an estimated 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus died in the 1994 genocide
In Bosnia, the 1995 massacre at Srebrenica has been ruled to be genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
And others give a long list of what they consider cases of genocide, including the Soviet man-made famine of Ukraine (1932-33), the Indonesian invasion of East Timor (1975), and the Khmer Rouge killings in Cambodia in the 1970s.
The International Criminal Court in 2010 issued an arrest warrant for the President of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir, on genocide charges.
He is accused of waging a campaign against the citizens of the Sudanese region of Darfur.
Some 300,000 people are said to have died and millions have been displaced in seven years of fighting there.
More recently, in March 2016, the US said so-called Islamic State (IS) was carrying out genocide against Christian, Yazidi and Shia minorities in Iraq and Syria.
IS, or Daesh, was "genocidal by self-proclamation, by ideology and by actions, in what it says, what it believes and what it does," Secretary of State John Kerry said.
The jihadist group seized large swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq in 2014, and has since become notorious for its brutality against perceived opponents.
Legal precedent?
The first case to put into practice the convention on genocide was that of Jean Paul Akayesu, the Hutu mayor of the Rwandan town of Taba at the time of the killings.
In a landmark ruling, a special international tribunal convicted him of genocide and crimes against humanity on 2 September 1998.
More than 30 ringleaders of the Rwandan genocide have now been convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
In August 2010 a leaked UN report reportedly alleges that Rwandan Hutus, perpetrators of the 1994 genocide, may themselves have been victims of the same crime.
In 2004, the ICTY widened the definition of what constitutes genocide.
General Radislav Krstic, the first man convicted by the ICTY of genocide in Bosnia, had appealed against his conviction for his role in the killing of more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica.
But the court rejected his argument that the numbers were "too insignificant" to be genocide - a decision likely to set an international legal precedent.
Since then a Bosnian Serb military commander has been cleared of being involved in Srebrenica.
It remains to be seen whether cases still pending will aid clarity on what is and what is not genocide.
The Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is currently on trial at The Hague accused of war crimes and genocide. He denies the charges.
President Bashir continues to travel outside Sudan, to countries who are signatories to the International Criminal Court, without being detained as ordered by the arrest warrant.
If his case is ever brought to trial it will be the first time that genocide charges are brought against a serving head of state.


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The Real Monsters on Halloween
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When your little one trick or treats this Halloween will they think your neighbor's bloody monster costumes are real, instead of pretend?
A growing body of research has found that the child's specific age makes a big difference in his or her ability to differentiate between say a ghost and someone wearing a white sheet.
A study in the British Journal of Developmental Psychology asked 64 pre-schoolers from ages 3-5 years to categorize a series of characters, like monsters, fairies, dragons, knights, dinosaurs as well as Santa Claus, Superman and Michael Jordan – into either real, pretend, or not sure categories.
The three-year-olds correctly categorized real characters 33 percent of the time (real being Jordan, dinosaurs, and knights), but the four and five-year-olds got them right 74 percent of the time.
All of them had a tough time with the fantastical creatures such as fairies and dragons, categorizing them correctly only 39 percent of the time.
Interestingly, among the pretend characters, the four and five-year-olds placed Superman in the correct category, but consistently placed Santa incorrectly. They insisted the gift-giver is real. The three-year-olds, on the other hand, pretty much confused all characters except for the knight, oddly enough.
So if you answer the door to any three-year-olds this Halloween, be gentle…because to them, this night is as scary as living inside the movie Nightmare on Elm Street.
–Christie Nicholson
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