{"id":6361,"date":"2024-06-27T08:33:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T13:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/?p=6361"},"modified":"2024-06-25T17:42:47","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T22:42:47","slug":"willie-mays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/2024\/06\/27\/willie-mays\/","title":{"rendered":"In His Own Words: Willie Mays"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Considered one of the best baseball players of all time by authorities such as ESPN and <em>The Sporting News<\/em>, Willie Mays passed away on June 18 in California at the age of 93. Mays wrote several books describing his life and phenomenal career in baseball. Here are the books he\u2019s written that we have in our collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>24: LIFE STORIES AND LESSONS FROM THE SAY HEY KID (DB 99789, BR 23250)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>SAY HEY: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF WILLIE MAYS (DB 30365)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Considered one of the best baseball players of all time by authorities such as ESPN and The Sporting News, Willie Mays passed away on June 18 in California at the age of 93. Mays wrote several books describing his life &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/2024\/06\/27\/willie-mays\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[165,220,37],"tags":[752,823,821,4,9,822],"class_list":["post-6361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-book-lists","category-readers-advisory-2","tag-baseball","tag-baseball-memoirs","tag-in-his-own-words","tag-reader-advisory","tag-readers-advisory","tag-willie-mays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6362,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6361\/revisions\/6362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tsl.texas.gov\/texastalkingbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}