This article was originally published on www.si.com as First Look at Jersey Patches Honoring Willie Mays on Giants Uniforms.

TRENTON — Before he became the ‘Say Hey Kid,’ Willie Mays was first a 19-year ... Weekend by retiring the No. 12 jersey he wore with the Trenton Giants on Saturday night.

Hall of Fame outfielder Willie Mays ... to the impact he had on the game. Mays is, of course, best known for his time with the San Francisco Giants franchise. (He originally joined the club ...

The tributes to San Francisco Giants legend continued to pour in on Friday. This time, it was in Pittsburgh. With the Pirates hosting the Tampa Bay Rays at PNC Park, players showed up hours early ...

Giants manager Bob Melvin informed the group that the jersey would meet the dress code ... featured No. 8 on the back — the number that Willie Mays wore in 1948 when he was a 17-year-old playing ...

The Giants retired his uniform number, 24, and set their AT&T Park in San Francisco on Willie Mays ... New Jersey. (Kuhn’s successor, Peter Ueberroth, reinstated Mays and fellow casino promoter ...

Eileen Holliday is a Newsweek journalist based in the NYC-area. The South Jersey native's 25-year career spanning newsrooms in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan, New York, and Florida includes ...

Willie Mays passed away peacefully on ... will honor Mays with a jersey patch affixed to the front of their shirts. The Giants shared a photo of the circular patches on Twitter.

TRENTON — Before he was the ‘Say Hey Kid,’ Willie Mays honed ... they will retire the No. 12 jersey Mays wore during that 1950 season with the Trenton Giants at a pregame ceremony on July ...

Pirates legend Andrew McCutchen showed his respect for Mays as he walked into the ballpark. How? The 37-year-old wore a Giants jersey. But not just any Giants jersey. It was a Mays jersey ...

The Giants center fielder, with his signature basket catch, was one of the game’s greatest and most beloved players and had been baseball’s oldest living Hall of Famer.