After a celebrated homecoming, Willie Mays’s final season is remembered as a disappointment. Albert Pujols’s has been a revelation.
. “I’m here to play. The Mets have a good team, and they’re not going to put me out there just because my name is Willie Mays. But I think I can still play.”interview with USA Today“It’s been awesome having the opportunity to come back to St. Louis where everything started for me 21 years ago,” said Pujols, who like Mays has been welcomed back by adoring fans. “This organization believed I can help. It wasn’t just come back to celebrate my last year.
“I want to play as long as I can help,” Mays said around that time. “I’ve always said that I’ll quit when it’s no longer fun for me or no longer any help to the team.”Finally on Sept. 20 — with the Mets in the midst of a furious late-season rally that would help them barely claim the division title under the slogan “Ya Gotta Believe” —“It’s been a wonderful 22 years, and I’m not just getting out of baseball because I’m hurt.
He expressed appreciation for New York fans: “I’m not ashamed of the way things have gone the last couple of months. They didn’t run me out. In San Francisco, I don’t think I would have played this year. The people would have run me out of the city. In New York, they let me hit .211.”a few days later, when 50,000 fans gave him a raucous send-off at Shea Stadium on an autumn evening in Queens in the midst of a pennant race.
Mays ended his career third in home runs with 660. He has since been passed by Barry Bonds, Alex RodriguezThe Mets won the division in 1973 with an 82-79 record, then stunned the Cincinnati Reds in the NL Championship Series to win their second pennant in five years. Mays returned for the postseason, going 1 for 3
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