Willie McCovey Dead at 80

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https://www.sfchronicle.com/giants/article/Willie-McCovey-Giants-legend-dead-at-80-13352886.php

 

Saw him hit a homer at Candlestick in 1963.

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11 minutes ago, bmbmd said:

https://www.sfchronicle.com/giants/article/Willie-McCovey-Giants-legend-dead-at-80-13352886.php

 

Saw him hit a homer at Candlestick in 1963.

Wow, I saw him play at the Dome 13 years later.  

[Gut Wagon 8087]

He had a wheelhouse...and baseballs weren't in it for long. RIP to a legend.

[BillyGoatHill 4312]

RIP....

[Beau Vine 54471]

45 IBBs in 1969, most by anyone other than Barry Bonds.  45 HR, 126 RBI, 1.106 OPS, 209 OPS+ that season.  Best hitter in MLB from 1968-70.

 

[Trey3216 15378]

Damn 

[Pato del Muerto 52635]

RIP 44. 

[Radical Larry 28664]

Damn. RIP. 

[DaysOff 7978]

Had a Willie Mccovey bat as a kid.

[Underdog 28807]

Two bad ass Willies

[NowThis 931]

I remember watching him on TV 1979 and 1980 and had no idea until now that his rookie year was 1959. Glad that i watched a historical figure. 

[Fudge Nuggets 19228]

One of my first packs of baseball cards ever had a McCovey card in it.  

[Underdog 28807]

The Reds used to hold Picture Day where you were allowed out onto the field in a roped off area in the outfield and both the Reds and visiting players would mingle out there for pics and shit.  We went when McCovey was a member of the Padres, may have been the biggest man I'd ever seen at that point in my life.  

[Bateshorn 9942]

Willie McCovey was a badass motherfucker.  Might have to fire up the Barking Carnival wayback machine if Sailor is still interested. 

[WBT 20676]

Jay Jaffe's writeup was good:

https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/remembering-willie-mccovey-a-true-giant-of-a-man/https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/remembering-willie-mccovey-a-true-giant-of-a-man/

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The 1962 World Series against the Yankees went seven games, but McCovey played only in the four that weren’t started by lefty Whitey Ford. He went 3-for-15, hitting a solo homer off Ralph Terry in a 2-0 Game Two victory and a two-out, seventh-inning triple, also against Terry, that went for naught in Game Seven, but his series performance is remembered most for the hit he didn’t get. In the bottom of the ninth, with the Yankees clinging to a 1-0 lead but Matty Alou at third base and Mays at second after doubling, McCovey faced Terry one more time. He hit a screaming line drive — but right to second baseman Bobby Richardson for the final out of the series.

 

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After McCovey was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1986 and asked how he’d like to be remembered, he said, “I’d like to be remembered as the guy who hit the ball over Bobby Richardson’s head in the seventh game.”

 

Edited November 3, 2018 by WBT

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Damnit, the link got fucked up

https://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/remembering-willie-mccovey-a-true-giant-of-a-man/