Baseball Trivia

Say hey!  Willie Mays here.  I was quite a phenomenal batter during my career, amassing over 3,200 hits, walloping 660 homers, driving in over 1,900 runs, and finishing with a career batting average above .300.

You might be surprised, then, to learn that I started my professional career by going 0-12 at the plate before collecting my first hit:  a home run.  During my career, I would hit an additional 17 home runs off this same pitcher (the most I hit off of any hurler). 

Can you identify this hall-of-fame southpaw?

Pictured:  Willie Mays, card #90 in the 1954 Topps set.  Said Joe DiMaggio, "There has never been a perfect ball player.  Willie Mays came closest to perfection."

Comments

[Bravesfan]

Warren Spahn, of course.

[Tim Zinnecker]

Too easy, right?

Source material here (1951):
http://www.nationalpastime.com/site/index.php?fact_day=28&fact_month=05

[Eric Fink]

One of my greatest childhood memories was riding in an elevator with Willie Mays, who lived in the same apartment building in Riverdale as my Grandmother during his late-career stint with the Mets. I was too shy to ask for an autograph. But he did give me a nice smile.

[John Steele]

I rode in an elevator with Barry Bonds and his lawyer as they headed upstairs to a hearing to enforce his pre-nup. Bonds was wearing a $2,000 Armani blazer and plenty of gold jewlery -- which, I thought, was not the best look when trying to cut his ex-wife out of money. (I know, this anecdote doesn't have the charm of the Willie Mays one, but it's all I got.)

[Cheap Jerseys]

One of my greatest childhood memories was riding in an elevator with Willie Mays, who lived in the same apartment building in Riverdale as my Grandmother during his late-career stint with the Mets. I was too shy to ask for an autograph. But he did give me a nice smile.

[Baseball Jerseys]

well you write his homeruns, why dont you write his strikes and outs?