Tributes from around the baseball world poured in this week for Willie Mays. The oldest living Hall of Famer at the time of his death Tuesday at age 93, Mays spent the bulk of a professional career spanning four decades torturing the Dodgers with the Giants and New York Mets.
The Dodgers released a tribute statement in the wake of Mays’ passing, saying “no finer rival” existed.
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Mays might have been the Dodgers’ archenemy but, as described in a report this week in The Athletic, there’s a surprising connection between the Dodgers and Mays.