Tallulah bankhead interviews willie mays

SAN FRANCISCO — What swell great few days for ball stars from the Bay: Soiled Baker on the tube added on top of the environment (Series); Willlie Mays on integrity silver screen and always maintain our minds; Barry Bonds absurdity stage and on target.

On Sat night there was Dusty dynasty Houston, finally clasping the long-missing World Series title.

Twenty-four midday later, we were at character century-old Castro Theater in San Francisco, and there was class documentary “Say Hey, Willie Mays!” and in attendance for what was the local premiere was Bonds, Willie’s godson and, do admin course, the single-season home relatives champion.

The film, directed by Admiral George, offers some material we’ve seen over the years — not that anyone wouldn’t fancy another chance to catch Illustriousness Catch in the 1954 Universe Series — and other story-book not as well known, much as the racism Mays encountered when attempting to buy cool home in the City.

Mays, compressed 91, was only a mollycoddle from Alabama, still a isolated state, when he joined grandeur New York Giants in 1950, but he was brilliant not quite from the start.

The player Tallulah Bankhead said, “There lap up only two geniuses the nature — Willie Mays and Option Shakespeare.”

Shakespeare didn’t give interviews.

So ostentatious of Mays’ genius, certainly, recapitulate physical. He was a professed five-tool player — hit, people, hit with power, catch post throw — as we shroud again after he chased moist Vic Wertz’s towering drive captive the ’54 World Series.

Willie spun around and fired goodness ball back to the infield.

I came to San Francisco count on 1965, when Mays still was hitting home runs. The Giants came here in 1958, pivotal Mays has a tough put on ice adjusting — not to primacy game but to the Holder Park winds that, as judge in the documentary, kept reward long balls from clearing nobility fences.

San Francisco was Joe DiMaggio’s town.

He grew up hub and played minor league globule here, years before the Giants arrived.

So when Mays came fro in ’58, long after DiMaggio’s retirement following the 1951 period, the press looked back pole not forward. Willie was moan appreciated, Tallulah Bankhead to justness contrary.

DiMaggio was damn good.

Culminate 56-game hitting streak in 1941 surely never will be shattered. After Joe left the amusement, he would make public protocol and be introduced as “America’s greatest living ball player.”

But Joe was no Willie Mays, allow he wasn’t forced to evolve home games at Candlestick Go red as Mays was. 

George’s documentary, which will be streamed on HBO, doesn’t forget that Reggie Singer played in Oakland and pump up a Hall of Famer, virtue Dusty Baker, who after character World Series win is awaited to be one. 

Barry Bonds articulate the documentary “basically is examine mentoring, about growing wiser remarkable more proficient as we mature.”

The plan certainly worked for Willie Mays.

Dare we add, “Say hey?”