Willie Mays, who spent two decades as a center-fielder for the NY/SF Giants, is considered by many to be the greatest baseball player of all time & was one of the trailblazing Black ballplayers that crossed over into the majors post-integration.
He died at 93, two days before a special Giants/Cardinals game at Rickwood Field (where Mays first played with his hometown Birmingham Black Barons) meant to commemorate him and other Negro League players.
Even my local sports radio station, which rarely talks about baseball (as we have no MLB team + NFL/NBA at large have more broad appeal), spent a good chunk of airtime in tribute to him last night + this morning.