Willie Mays' First NFT to Feature Diploma, Benefit Say Hey Foundation, by Tim Kurkjian

“Mays' diploma is being made public for the first time in the 90-year-old's first NFT (nonfungible token), which will be released Sunday, it was announced. Mays' 90th Birthday Celebrity Drop is going live -- with Oct. 24 being a nod to Mays' jersey number -- on the marketplace Nifty Gateway.”

“‘I didn't really understand how these computer tokens worked at first,’ Mays told ESPN. ‘I had to get them explained to me. I'm used to tokens you can hold in your hand. But I guess people collect them the way they do trading cards. And those cards are worth a lot of money now. And I figure anything like that, that people can enjoy and that help me support the kids, is something worth doing.”’

“All proceeds from the release will be donated to Mays' Say Hey Foundation, which establishes baseball programs for underprivileged youth in Alabama, as well as the restoration of youth baseball facilities at Rickwood Field, the home of the Negro Leagues' Birmingham Barons, for whom Mays played from 1948 to 1950.”

“‘I think that whatever you do, you do your very best at it. I took cleaning and pressing seriously -- I got pretty good at it,’ Mays said. ‘I just want every kid to get the chance to do their best at whatever they decide to do. I decided to do baseball.”’

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