Say Hey: The Autobiography of Willie Mays
Price: $400.00
Hard Cover. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988. First Edition. Fine / Dust Jacket Included.
First edition, first printing. Signed by Mays in blue ink on front free endpaper. With JSA certification. Publisher's tan cloth-backed yellow paper-covered boards, with spine stamped in gilt; in its original yellow pictorial dust jacket, painting and design by Wendell Minor, lettered in brown and black. Fine book, with Simon and Schuster's "sowing man" remainder mark to the lower edge of text block; about fine unclipped dust jacket, with light toning to jacket flaps. Overall, a great copy. In Say Hey, Willie Mays tells his life story with the help of prolific sportswriter Lou Sahadi. Mays started playing professional baseball at 16 in the Negro Leagues and was soon drafted by the New York Giants. He went on to play 21 seasons with the Giants, winning a World Series with the team in 1954. A 24x All-Star and a 12x Gold Glove award winner, Mays was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1979 and was voted to the Major League Baseball All-Century Team in 1999. Item #LSMAYS005
