# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/willie-mays
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:46:26.704Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/willie-mays"
name: "Willie Mays"
slug: "willie-mays"
description: "Willie Howard Mays Jr., nicknamed \"the Say Hey Kid\", was an American professional baseball center fielder who played 23 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). Widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, Mays was a five-tool player who began his career in the Negro leagues, playing for the Birmingham Black Barons, and spent the rest of his career in the National League (NL), playing for the New York / San Francisco Giants and New York Mets."
tagline: "American baseball player (1931–2024)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Willie_Mays_cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
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  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1931-05-06"
deathDate: "2024-06-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           25.116124
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump