Willie “Say Hey Kid” Mays, one of baseball’s all-time greats, is celebrating his 81st birthday today. Twitter is celebrating with him and sharing fond memories of Willie Mays.<\/p>\n\n\n
Today Willie Mays turns 81, here's the cake the Cardinals gave him when he turned 38 in 1969: http:\/\/t.co\/H04MJiqY<\/a><\/p>\n — Stirrups Now! (@uniformcritic) May 6, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n have a faded autograph from him passed down to me MT @buster_espn<\/a>: Happy birthday to Willie Mays, http:\/\/t.co\/CNX5uCDU<\/a><\/p>\n — Shayne Forsyth (@shayneforsyth) May 6, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n Willie Mays hit by a pitch in 1966. Cardinals' Tim McCarver looks on: http:\/\/t.co\/cFvcw6tE<\/a><\/p>\n — Stirrups Now! (@uniformcritic) May 6, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n Great photo RT @MLB<\/a>: SAY HEY: Happy 81st birthday to MLB's greatest living ballplayer, the iconic Willie Mays! pic.twitter.com\/gXJg4QAo<\/a><\/p>\n — Tyson Densley (@TysDensley) May 6, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n Happy birthday, Willie Mays. In my book, he is still the best ballplayer still breathing. the "Say Hey" kid is 81.<\/p>\n — Tim Sullivan (@TimSullivan714) May 6, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n RT @EdgeofSports<\/a> Happy birthday to "Say Hey" Willie Mays, in my opinion "the greatest living player" since 1951. #SFGiants<\/a><\/p>\n — Don Rhoades (@TheGonzoSEO) May 6, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n For "youngsters"..How good was Willie Mays? Imagine if Magic Johnson had been a baseball player and you will have a clue! @EdgeofSports<\/a><\/p>\n — Bob Davis (@kozmicfunk) May 6, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n Happy Birthday to my boyhood idol… Willie Mays. I'm a fourth generation Giants fan and he was my hero.<\/p>\n — Steve Wronker (@SWFB) May 6, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n \n ESPN’s Dick Vitale offers his thoughts as well.<\/p>\n\n\n Say Hey Willie was THE BEST I EVER saw-Happy 81 WILLIE MAYS Dad loved Joe D my uncles The MICK but to me NO ONE was better than Willie!<\/p>\n — Dick Vitale (@DickieV) May 6, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n \n We join in wishing Mr. Mays a very happy birthday!<\/p> Read more: http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2012\/05\/06\/happy-birthday-to-willie-mays\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/onekainen\/status\/199116642263891968 Willie “Say Hey Kid” Mays, one of baseball’s all-time greats, is celebrating his 81st birthday today. Twitter is celebrating with him and sharing fond memories of Willie Mays. Today Willie Mays turns 81, here's the cake the Cardinals gave him when he turned 38 in 1969: http:\/\/t.co\/H04MJiqY — Stirrups Now! (@uniformcritic) May 6, 2012 … Continue reading Happy Birthday to Willie Mays<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anxiety"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}