BASEBALL PLAYER

Willie Mays

1931 - 2024

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Willie Howard Mays Jr. (May 6, 1931 – June 18, 2024), nicknamed "the Say Hey Kid", was an American professional baseball center fielder who played 23 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Willie Mays has received more than 6,721,863 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Willie Mays is the 16th most popular baseball player (down from 14th in 2019), the 5,366th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,552nd in 2019) and the 13th most popular American Baseball Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 6.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.83

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BASEBALL PLAYERS

Among baseball players, Willie Mays ranks 16 out of 91. Before him are Ty Cobb, Ted Williams, Ichiro Suzuki, Roberto Clemente, Mickey Mantle, and Barry Bonds. After him are Yogi Berra, Sandy Koufax, Nolan Ryan, Roger Maris, Randy Johnson, and Alex Rodriguez.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Willie Mays ranks 297. Before him are Janusz Majewski, Norman Read, Tamara Tyshkevich, Fay Weldon, Dorothy Stang, and Elias M. Stein. After him are Irwin Winkler, Shunichiro Okano, Guido Messina, Cemal Süreya, Klaus Rifbjerg, and Kenny Burrell. Among people deceased in 2024, Willie Mays ranks 241. Before him are Helen Fisher, Michael Verhoeven, Mísia, Albert S. Ruddy, Janusz Majewski, and David Sanborn. After him are Wolfgang Rihm, John Ashton, Paul Josef Cordes, Pete Rose, Wolfgang Becker, and Rachid Mekhloufi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Willie Mays ranks 5,366 out of 20,380. Before him are Heber Doust Curtis (1872), Buffy Sainte-Marie (1941), Leo Huberman (1903), Karl Struss (1886), Kevin MacLeod (1972), and Daniela Ruah (1983). After him are Art Farmer (1928), Pat Martino (1944), David Crane (1957), Irwin Winkler (1931), Glenn Davis (1934), and T. C. Boyle (1948).

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Among BASEBALL PLAYERS In United States

Among baseball players born in United States, Willie Mays ranks 13. Before him are Reggie Jackson (1946), Alexander Cartwright (1820), Ty Cobb (1886), Ted Williams (1918), Mickey Mantle (1931), and Barry Bonds (1964). After him are Yogi Berra (1925), Sandy Koufax (1935), Nolan Ryan (1947), Roger Maris (1934), Randy Johnson (1963), and Alex Rodriguez (1975).

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