Vin Scully was a Dodgers legend.
But his all-time favorite player was a longtime member of the hated Giants: Willie Mays.
Scully made the revelation to Mays when the two of them met, possibly for the first time, the night before Scully called his final Dodgers game after 67 years in the booth. A heartwarming video from that Oct. 1, 2016, interaction resurfaced on social media Tuesday after news broke that Mays died earlier that day at age 93.
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“You’ve always been my favorite player, even though you wore the wrong uniform,” Scully told a laughing Mays.