Maybe I was born to play ball. Maybe I truly was.
From Willie Mays
When I'm not hitting, I don't hit nobody. But, when I'm hitting, I hit anybody.
I don't mean to be bashful, but I was.
I was very blessed with a good body. Never got hurt. Never was in the hospital. The only time I was in the hospital was when I would get exhausted a little bit, and go in for a check-up or something.
And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5' 11". So I just picked baseball.
I played with the Birmingham Black Barons. I was making 500 at 14. That was a lot of money in those days.
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