<Tr> <Th> Vote </Th> <Td> 94.7% (first ballot) </Td> </Tr> <P> Willie Howard Mays, Jr. (born May 6, 1931), nicknamed "The Say Hey Kid", is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) center fielder who spent almost all of his 22 - season career playing for the New York / San Francisco Giants, before finishing with the New York Mets . He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1979 . </P> <P> Mays won two National League (NL) Most Valuable Player (MVP) awards, ended his career with 660 home runs - third at the time of his retirement and currently fifth all - time - and won a record - tying 12 Gold Glove awards beginning in 1957, when the award was introduced . </P> <P> Mays shares the record of most All - Star Games played with 24, with Hank Aaron and Stan Musial . In appreciation of his All - Star record, Ted Williams said "They invented the All - Star Game for Willie Mays ." </P>

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