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Originally Posted by egri
From what I've heard, Mays is bitter about Mickey Mantle being more popular than him, and about today's athletes making several times what he did.
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The first part may be true but certainly isn't the case for those of us in the Bay Area, the majority of us would take Willie over Mickey in a heartbeat.
As to the 2nd part Mays has had many lucrative endorsement deals since he retired and has long lived in an exclusive community here in the Bay Area and by that I mean exclusive even by Silicon Valley standards (there is literally a wall around the whole of he city limits).
Any perceived bitterness is likely rooted in something much deeper I doubt any of us are equipped to understand.