Baseball legend Willie Mays passed away on Tuesday afternoon, according to the San Francisco Giants. He was 93 years old.

“It is with great sadness that we announce that San Francisco Giants Legend and Hall of Famer Willie Mays passed away peacefully this afternoon at the age of 93,” the team said in a statement.

ESPN said that Mays had an “unmatched collection of skills” that made him “the greatest center fielder who ever lived”.

Mays made 24 All-Star teams during his Major League Baseball career — which spanned from 1951 – 1973 — and finished 6th in all-time home runs (660), 7th in runs scored (2,068), 12th in RBIs (1,909), and 13th in hits (3,293), ESPN reported.

Mays was born on May 6, 1931, in Alabama where he excelled at all the major sports early in life. He began his professional baseball career at only 17 years old when he joined the Birmingham Black Barons while he was still in high school. At 20, he became only the 10th black player in the league’s history.

He briefly had his career interrupted when he was drafted into the U.S. Army to fight in the Korean War in 1952. He returned to the Giants in 1954.

Willie Mays’s son, Michael Mays, said in a statement: “My father has passed away peacefully and among loved ones. I want to thank you all from the bottom of my broken heart for the unwavering love you have shown him over the years. You have been his life’s blood.”

There will never be another quite like Willie Mays 🧡 pic.twitter.com/I95JW1buJF

— SFGiants (@SFGiants) June 19, 2024

“Today we have lost a true legend”, said Giants Chairman Greg Johnson in a statement. “In the pantheon of baseball greats, Willie Mays’ combination of tremendous talent, keen intellect, showmanship, and boundless joy set him apart. A 24-time All-Star, the Say Hey Kid is the ultimate Forever Giant.

“He had a profound influence not only on the game of baseball, but on the fabric of America,” he added. “He was an inspiration and a hero who will be forever remembered and deeply missed.”

Giants president and chief executive officer Larry Baer said that he fell in love with baseball because of Mays.

“My childhood was defined by going to Candlestick with my dad, watching Willie patrol centerfield with grace and the ultimate athleticism,” he said. “Over the past 30 years, working with Willie, and seeing firsthand his zest for life and unbridled passion for giving to young players and kids, has been one of the joys of my life.”

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Former President Donald Trump slammed President Joe Biden on the campaign trail Tuesday afternoon for unveiling an “illegal” mass amnesty program that rewards migrants who violated federal U.S. immigration laws.

Biden’s new policy will provide legal status and a streamlined path to U.S. residency and citizenship to more than 500,000 illegal aliens who married American citizens and have lived in the country for 10 years.

In order to be eligible, the illegal aliens must have met the 10 year requirement by June 17, 2024, or else they will have to wait for the next Democrat mass amnesty program.

“Crooked Joe’s action today is an illegal, unconstitutional amnesty without approval from Congress, no approval from the courts, or the American people,” Trump told thousands of supporters at a rally in Wisconsin. “He did that with the tuition and that didn’t work out too well, he got rebuked, and then he did it again, it’s gonna get rebuked again, even more, it’s an even more vile attack. But he did that with tuition, just to get the publicity for the election. He doesn’t care about that. He just wants to see if he can get it by the election.”

Trump said that no other country on earth — except for a few “third world horrible banana republics” — would allow this kind of madness to happen.

“This Biden amnesty is a direct attack on American democracy,” he said. “And yet, another example is how Biden and his communists are demolishing our constitutional system and replacing it with a corrupt and fascist regime. These are fascists, these are bad people. And I don’t think he’s calling the shots. I’ll be honest, I think he’s not, I’m talking to you like a small little gathering of, you know, 20,000 people, I don’t think he’s calling the shots. I really don’t.”

Trump said that if he is elected — and most polls show him leading Biden — that he is not going to allow the “Biden betrayal” to stand.

“When I’m re-elected, Joe Biden’s illegal amnesty plan will be ripped up and thrown out on the very first day that we’re back in office,” he said. “He’s gonna let everybody come in because what they’re trying to do, they’re trying to sign these people up and register them, they’re not citizens, they’re not allowed to do it. It’s illegal as hell. We’re filing court cases all over the place, including here.”

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“They’re signing people up to vote,” he said. “And we’re in courts all over the place, and we’re gonna get it stopped and we’re not gonna let what they did four years ago happen again, our country is being destroyed.”

WATCH:

WATCH: President Donald Trump BLASTS Joe Biden: “This Biden Amnesty is a direct attack on American democracy.” pic.twitter.com/ZfzE6WmqkJ

— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) June 19, 2024