Willie Mays
| Hall of Fame outfielder WILLIE MAYS was known as "The Say Hey Kid" and hit 660 homers during his career, third behind only Hank Aaron (755) and Babe Ruth (714) on the all-time list. Mays, who also had 1,903 RBI and 3,283 career hits, amassed a .302 lifetime batting average - along with an amazing 338 stolen bases. He won the National League MVP award in 1954 after hitting a league-leading .345 with 41 homers and 110 RBI as he led the New York Giants to a World Series championship.
In 1965 (an amazing 11 years later), Mays won his second MVP trophy after hitting .317 with a league-leading 52 home runs and 112 ribbies for the San Francisco Giants. In 1962, Mays became one of only 35 players in history to record 40 or more homers and 140 or more RBI in a single season when he clouted 49 roundtrippers and knocked across 141 runs.
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