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Willie Mays with a buncha baseball bats

Willie Mays, center fielder for the New York Giants (later the San Francisco Giants), poses with a bouquet of baseball bats for a 1954 issue of Baseball Digest. That year, Willie Mays was named the National League's most valuable player, and led the New York Giants to the World Series championship

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