In 1959, when Soviet Premier Nikita Khruschev visited San Francisco and members of the International Longshoreman's Union greeted him with cheers, newspaperman Frank Coniff quipped: "This is the damndest city. They cheer Khruschev and boo Willie Mays." It was the height of the Cold War and, for Coniff and many of his readers, there was […] The post Saying a final goodbye to Willie Mays, baseball's 'Say hey' kid appeared first on SC Daily Gazette.