Willie mays raleys 1967 info

[cannonballsun]

Originally Posted by Kenmarks

That picture Fred posted is mine. We are buddies. Anyway that came from 1962. Raleys is in Sacramento California and that Grocery market chain had Willie Mays come out for signings one winter day. At the Raleys we were at he, stayed for a half hour or 45 minutes. They gave you the picture and Mays signed it. Free. Then he was off to another store. My assumption is he hit them all, but I don’t know that for sure. I was 12 at the time.

There couldn’t have been more than 20 people there that day. He answered some questions with most of them being about the 62 World Series Game seven, and if he thought Matty Alou could’ve scored on his double with two outs in the Ninth inning in a game the Giants lost one to nothing. Would’ve tied the game.

Around that time Raleys also had John Brodie come out and do the same thing for them. The picture they gave you that day does not have the Raley’s notation on it.

Wow, Ken, that's a great story. I'm glad you were able to keep your photo for all those years. So many things disappear over the long passage of time.

[Kenmarks]

thanks Wayne. Mays, like a lot of us kids, was my favorite player growing up. So I kept it. I also have this old beat=up little league baseball he signed that day too. Still has my name written in large red block letters that were on the ball when he signed.

I have two brothers who were there with my Dad and myself that day (and the 49ers day too). I asked them their recollection on when the Mays appearance happened and they agreed it was around 1962, They even remembered also what a cold overcast day it was. So not sure where that WorthPoint 1967 citation came from, but it is not accurate (unless there was another promotion then, but that is pretty hard to believe as we would have known about it as Raley's was the grocery store the family shopped at).

Undoubtably, they had to have printed decent number of those photos for this appearance. And likely they were not all used as there was a very limited number of folks that day at the store we went too. So the Raley's probably distributed the unused to customers later in some manner I would imagine (un signed). But no knowledge of that.

[ALBB]

John Brodie...no ?

[JollyElm]

I'm a Waldbaum's and King Kullen kinda guy from Long Island, but we had a Raley's hear nearby that was pretty awesome. It recently closed down. Bummer.

Any chance we can see the baseball signed by Mays (with the added inclusion of your name written in large red block letters).

[whiteymet]

Originally Posted by JollyElm

I'm a Waldbaum's and King Kullen kinda guy from Long Island, but we had a Raley's hear nearby that was pretty awesome. It recently closed down. Bummer.

Any chance we can see the baseball signed by Mays (with the added inclusion of your name written in large red block letters).

Darren

Here is Ken's photos of the ball you asked to see. He asked me to post them.