https://www.donnareed.org/post/donna-called-him-three-times

Willie Mays (born May 6, 1931).

Willie Howard Mays Jr. nicknamed "The Say Hey Kid," is an American former professional baseball center fielder. He spent almost all of his 22-season Major League Baseball career playing for the New York/San Francisco Giants (1951–1952, 1954–1972) before finishing his career with the New York Mets (1972–1973). Regarded as one of the greatest baseball players of all time, he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1979.

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Mays appears in three episodes of The Donna Reed Show: “My Son the Catcher” (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0564260/) (Season 6, Episode 31); "Play Ball" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0768387/) (Season 7, Episode 3); and “Calling Willie Mays” (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0564219/) (Season 8, Episode 20).

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Very very sad :(

RIP.

I remember an interview that Willie Mays did with Bob Costas on HBO back in I believe, the 2000s. One of Willie Mays' closest and dearest friends was Tony Owen, who just so happened to be Donna Reed's husband in real life. Whenever Willie really needed money, Tony Owen was among the first people that he would call. Naturally, Owen said that he couldn't give Willie the money upfront and that he had to "work for it" by coming on his wife's TV show.