WILLIE MAYS SYNCHRONICITY: MAGICAL LIFE OF A LEGEND

Baseball legend Willie Mays passed away on June 18, 2024, in Palo Alto, California at the age of 93.

To hear stories from people who witnessed Willie Mays play baseball, is to be enthralled in an experience of time travel.

The faces of the storytellers of Willie Mays’ greatness, exuded a combination of excitement and confident assurance, that they saw greatness in real time.

The elders who were the remaining survivors of a distant past, are now transformed into modern-day Griots of baseball’s memory.

When the elders said the name of Willie Mays, they were certain that they saw greatness in all of its glory and through their telling of history, made sure you experienced remnants of that time of rapture.

They conveyed all of this, through the widening of their eyes and how they would sit on the edge of their chairs, beckoning you to come closer to hear and most importantly learn about a sports hero, the times of a bygone era, -which continues to live in the communal art of storytelling.

In any form of storytelling, timing is everything.

In telling the story of Willie Mays, there are many references to the concept of time.

The time he did this or he did that, such as his famous feat in the 1954 World Series known as “The Catch”.

The excellence of Willie Mays created a legacy of timeless moments and a baseball career which was timeless in its accumulated achievements.

Interacting with Willie Mays affected one’s sense of time.

Michael Mays, the son of Willie Mays, in an interview on June 20, 2024, on MLB Tonight’s The Show, tells the story of how his father seemed to have the ability to stop time.

In response to the question “Did Willie Mays ever meet a stranger?”

Part of Michael Mays’ answer to the aforementioned question was the following:

“..the magic things I’m trying to tell you. I know it all sounds spiritual and crazy, but it’s really, really like, uh, the ability to stop time.”

Michael Mays would go on to say:

“You know, something. If you, if you ever travel with him, Jake knows you’d be on your way somewhere.

You’re in a hurry, doesn’t work. You got 20 minutes to be somewhere. He’ll stop and talk and me whatever deal with everybody for 25 minutes.

But when you get to the place you were going, you’re still on time.”

The life of Willie Mays is in synchronicity with the metaphysical archetypes encoded in sports, history and western science, namely physics.

Willie Mays, was born Willie Howard Mays Jr., in Westfield, Alabama on May 6, 1931.

May 6, can also be expressed as 5-6.

The month and day reference of 5-6, has the same numeric configuration as the number 56.

The number 56 is one of the key numbers, in understanding the metaphysical identity of the great Willie Mays.

Willie Mays’ full name given at birth, was Willie Howard Mays Jr.

The name WILLIE HOWARD MAYS JR, in the Chaldean cipher equals 56:

Willie Mays was born in the state of Alabama.

The word ALABAMA, in the Latin cipher (which is also referred by some as the Jewish Gematria cipher), equals 56:

Willie Mays played the center fielder position in baseball.

The phrase CENTER FIELD, in the Full Reduction cipher equals 56:

On May 24, 1951, after two seasons in the minor leagues Willie Mays began playing for the New York Giants and at the end of the season, he was named the National League (NL) Rookie of the Year.

The New York Giants, were also referred to as “The NY Giants”, which in the Reverse Full Reduction cipher equals 56:

The birthday of Willie Mays on May 6, was in synchronicity with the noteworthy achievement by Roger Bannister.

On May 6, 1954, which was Willie Mays 24th birthday, Roger Bannister became the first athlete to record a sub-4-minute mile.

Willie Mays would also create headlines in September-October 1954, when he would lead the NY Giants to a World Series championship.

According to the New York Times:

“Bannister ran a mile in under four minutes — 3:59.4, to be exact — becoming the first man ever to do so, breaking through a mystical barrier and creating a seminal moment in sports history.”

The phrase SUB-4-MINUTE MILE, in the Septenary cipher equals 56:

Willie Mays was very good friends with Jacob Shemano, a Jewish banker and his family from San Francisco.

The Jewish community is associated with the six-pointed star, which commonly referred to as the “Star of David”.

The phrase STAR OF DAVID, in the Single Reduction cipher equals 56:

Willie Mays met Martin Luther King, Jr., in Los Angeles, California in 1963.

The name MARTIN LUTHER KING JR, in the Chaldean cipher equals 56:

Josh Gibson played in the Negro Leagues for the Homestead Grays from 1930 -1946.

Gibson was the second Negro league player, to be inducted in the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

On May 28, 2024, which was 21 days before Willie Mays passed away on June 18, 2024, Major League Baseball announced that it had integrated Josh Gibson’s Negro league statistics into its records.

Thus giving Gibson the highest single-season major league batting average at .466 (1943) and the highest career batting average at .372.

Gibson was born on December 21, 1911 and passed away on January 20, 1947, at the age of 35.

December 21, is governed by the zodiac sign of Sagittarius.

The word SAGITTARIUS, in the Septenary cipher equals 56:

With the number 59, Willie Mays express synchronicity with his entire baseball career from the Negro Leagues to the MLB.

The word NEGRO, in the English Ordinal cipher equals 59:

The terms THE NEGRO LEAGUES and THE NEGRO LEAGUE, are used interchangeably.

The phrase THE NEGRO LEAGUE, in the Chaldean cipher equals 59:

Willie Mays was considered a baseball child prodigy and at the age of 16, he played in the Negro Leagues with the Birmingham Black Barons.

On July 4, 1948, Willie Mays signed a basic contract for $250 a month to play for the Black Barons.

The phrase BIRMINGHAM BLACK BARONS, in the Chaldean cipher equals 59:

The phrase THE NEW YORK GIANTS, in the Chaldean cipher equals 59:

The final NY Giants’ home game at the Polo Grounds was on September 29, 1957, and in 1958 the team relocated to San Francisco, California.

The phrase SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS, in the Chaldean cipher equals 59:

“On May 11, 1972, Mays was traded to the New York Mets for pitcher Charlie Williams and an undisclosed amount rumored to be $100,000.”

The phrase THE NEW YORK METS, in the Septenary cipher equals 59:

Willie Mays became known as the “Say Hey Kid” because of his youth, exuberant style of play and habit of greeting people with the phrase, “Say Hey.”

The phrase THE SAY HEY KID, in the Full Reduction cipher equals 59:

Throughout his professional career in Major League Baseball (MLB), Willie Mays wore the jersey number 24.

He appeared in 24 All-Star Games.

The year he passed away was 2024, which in its shortened form is ’24.

The word NUMBER, in the Chaldean cipher equals 24:

Willie Mays excelled in five major areas of baseball: hit for average, hit for power, field, throw and run.

A baseball player who can do the aforementioned five (5) things well, is referred to as “five-tool player”.

The word FIVE, in the Full Reduction cipher equals 24:

The way Willie Mays played defied convention and challenged the established laws of science.

The word PHYSICS, in the Chaldean cipher equals 24:

The magnificence of Willie Mays on the baseball field, has led some to refer to him as a magician.

The word MAGICIAN, in the Septenary cipher equals 24:

In the English alphabet, the 24th letter is X.

When Willie Mays played in New York City during the 1950s, Malcolm X was the chief minister at Mosque No. 7 in Harlem.

The letter X, in the English Ordinal cipher equals 24:

The reverse of 24 is 42.

When Willie Mays retired from baseball in September, 1973 he was 42 years.

Willie Mays began playing for the New York Giants in 1951, which was four years after Jackie Robinson’s historical entry in the MLB, with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.

Jackie Robinson, was the more outspoken of the two on racial political issues, while Willie Mays chose not to address publicly social issues and was criticized by some Black leaders for taking that position .

Willie Mays was considered a five tool player, because he “could hit for average, hit for power, run, field, and throw.”

The word FIVE, in the English Ordinal cipher equals 42:

“Mays was the godfather of Barry Bonds, whose father, Bobby Bonds, was a friend of his when they were Giants teammates.”

The word GODFATHER, in the Reverse Full Reduction cipher equals 42:

When Willie Mays passed away on June 18, 2024, he was also in synchronicity with Martin Luther King, Jr.

On June 18, 1953, Martin Luther King, Jr. married then Coretta Scott in Alabama.

On June 18, 1953, MLK who was born on January 15, 1929, was 24 years old.

Remember Willie Mays’ birthplace is Alabama and he wore the number 24!

The name MARTIN, in the Reverse Full Reduction cipher equals 42:

There is another synchronicity connected to Willie Mays’ passing on June 18, 2024.

Baseball great Larry Doby, who along with Satchel Paige were the first African-Americans to win a World Series championship.

Larry Doby and Satchel Paige were teammates on the Cleveland Indians, who won the World Series in 1948.

Doby passed away on June 18, 2003 and Willie Mays passed away on 21 years later on June 18, 2024.

Martin Luther King, Jr. was born on January 15, 1929, which is governed by the zodiac sign of Capricorn.

The ruling planet of Capricorn is Saturn.

The word SATURN, in the Reverse Full Reduction cipher equals 42:

According to Harlem World Magazine, Willie Mays in discussing his time in Harlem shared the following thoughts:

“In 1951 when I first started, I lived right on top of the hill on St. Nicholas Place,” Mays said, referring to the Sugar Hill area in Harlem, where he lived during his first two years in the New York Times reported. “I used to go up and down this street (to walk to the Polo Grounds via 155th Street) all the time, so I’m familiar with this area.”

The word HARLEM, in the cipher equals 42:

It has been widely reported, that Willie Mays would always make time to come back to his neighborhood in Harlem to play stickball or baseball with the neighborhood children and that they “would knock on the 1st floor apt of the New York Giants star to invite him to play stickball.”

“In 2017, he had 155th street and Harlem River Drive street named after him “Willie Mays Drive” in Harlem and Major League Baseball renamed the World Series MVP award the “Willie Mays World Series Most Valuable Player.”

Malcolm X became chief minister of the Nation of Islam’s Mosque No. 7 in 1954, which is the same year the Willie Mays led NY Giants won the World Series.

Willie Mays’ number 24, has an encoded synchronicity to Malcolm X.

“X”, is the 24th letter in the English alphabet.

The name MALCOLM X, in the Reverse Full Reduction cipher equals 42:

At the time of his passing in ’24, Willie Mays was 93 years old.

The written form of 24, is TWENTY FOUR.

The phrase THE NUMBER TWENTY-FOUR, in the Full Reduction cipher equals 93:

Willie Mays is known for “The Catch”, which is regarded as one of the greatest plays in baseball history.

Mays made his historical play when he made a “superb grab of a drive hit by Cleveland’s Vic Wertz in Game 1 of the 1954 World Series against the favored Indians.”

“Mays made an over-the-shoulder catch while on the run to record the out, and his throw back to the infield prevented one of the runners from advancing. The Giants won the game 5–2 in extra innings, and eventually the World Series.”

The phrase AN OVER THE SHOULDER CATCH, in the Septenary cipher equals 93:

The name MARTIN LUTHER KING JR, in the Full Reduction cipher equals 93:

The word SATURN, in the English Ordinal cipher equals 93:

The name MALCOLM X, in English Ordinal cipher equals 93:

Willie Mays started his baseball career as with the Negro American League champion Birmingham Black Barons in 1948.

The phrase BIRMINGHAM BLACK BARONS, in the Full Reduction cipher equals 93:

The passing of Willie Mays on June 18, 2024, was encoded with a multi-level expression of synchronicity.

The synchronicity associated with Willie Mays, is symbolically represented by the number jersey he wore of 24.

There are 24 hours in day, which is a symbolic reference to time.

The metaphysical identity of Willie Mays, is connected to the different phases of time and the spirit of baseball, which was more than just a game.

NOTES

  1. Science of Sports: https://youtu.be/yTSGIy8HXnc?si=wFPwE72W-m_FYcxU
  2. Michael Mays June 20, 2024 Interview: https://youtu.be/7d0gLXZT4Mk?si=kxFGKKdF5Ci9neMs
  3. Roger Bannister: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/04/obituaries/roger-bannister-dead.html
  4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Mays
  5. https://sabr.org/journal/article/introduction-willie-mays-five-tools/
  6. https://www.harlemworldmagazine.com/harlem-legend-willie-say-hey-kid-mays-playing-stickball-at-home-in-harlem-1954-2/

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