HBO Sports Doc ‘Say Hey, Willie Mays!’ Debuts November 8

In ceremony of his historical over the shoulder catch over 50 years earlier, HBO Sports Documentaries in association with Company Name & UNINTERRUPTED reveals Say Hey, Willie Mays!, a movie checking out the life and profession of Major League Baseball Hall of Famer Willie Mays, will be debuting November 8 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on HBO and readily available to stream on HBO Max. Directed by Nelson George, the documentary consists of unique interviews with Mays and his household. The movie will have its opening night at the 2022 UrbanWorld Film Festival on October 27.

Mays is unquestionably among the very best well-rounded gamers in Major League history, showing the uncommon mix of speed, power and defense whenever he took the field. He played in a record-tying 24 All-Star Games in his 22 years with the Giants (1951-1972) and the Mets (1972-1973). He signed with the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro American League at 16 and after that signed up with the Giants company in 1950. After serving in the U.S. Army for the majority of the 1952 season and all of 1953, “The Say Hey Kid” gone back to publish an MVP season in 1954, leading the Giants to the World Series Championship. He made NL MVP honors once again in 1965 and won 12 successive Gold Gloves from 1957-1968.  Mays completed his profession with a .302 batting average, 660 crowning achievement, 338 taken bases, a .384 on-base portion and a .557 slugging portion. The Alabama local was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1979 with 94.7% of all votes, the fourth-highest overall ever at the time of his election. In 2017, Major League Baseball relabelled the World Series Most Valuable Player in honor of Willie Mays.