Roger Kahn - Beyond the Boys of Summer (4)

Roger Kahn did a story on Willie Mays in 1969 toward the end of his career.
Here is one thing Mays had to say.

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"I won't lie to you," Mays says. "It gets to be work. Somethimes when I get tired and with all that pressure, it gets to be work. I knew when I was sixteen years old, I never did want to work for a living." Again, the smile.

Roger Kahn, "Beyond the Boys of Summer," p. 119.