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Fox Sports commissioned me to paint
three large-scale paintings of Willie Mays for a tribute to the great
baseball player. Two of the paintings are 5 feet x 6 feet
portraits. The third painting, from the well-known photograph "The
Catch" is 4 feet by 7 1/2 feet.
Fox Sports is using the paintings as backdrops for a tribute interview
that aired nationally prior to the Major League All Star Baseball Game
televised Tuesday,
July 10. 2007 |
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Willie Howard Mays, Jr. (born May 6, 1931 in Westfield, Alabama; outside
of Birmingham) is a retired American baseball player who played the
majority of his career with the New York and San Francisco Giants before
finishing his career with the New York Mets. Nicknamed The Say Hey Kid,
Mays was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1979, his first year of
eligibility. Mays won two MVP awards and tied a record with twenty-four
appearances in the All-Star Game. He ended his career with 660 career
home runs, third at the time of his retirement, and currently fourth
all-time. Many consider him to be the greatest all-around player of
all-time.
Mays' first Major League manager, Leo Durocher, described his abundance
of talent, saying: "He could do the five things you have to do to be a
superstar: hit, hit with power, run, throw, and field.
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