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Retiring Number 24 — Mets Honor Willie Mays

Retiring Number 24: Mets Honor Willie Mays By Richard Sternberg, M.D. I am a NY Mets fan. I’ve been so since their beginning in 1962 when I was 9 years of age. I don’t know how that came to be, but I grew up in Queens and the new team in town fascinated me. My father was not a baseball fan but my mother showed an interest, maybe just because of me and my brother, or maybe she was a…