All Major League Baseball teams in action Wednesday will observe a moment of silence in tribute to the passing of legendary player Willie Mays.
Mays passed away Tuesday night at the age of 93.
There are 15 major league games in action today.
MLB will also hold a ceremony honoring Mays and several other players at Rickwood Field, the same Alabama baseball field where he played as a teenager, TMZ Sports reports.
Willie Mays of the New York Giants is shown here in this three-quarters-length photo on one knee. (Photo by Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)
Rickwood was also the home of the Birmingham Black Barons, the team Mays played for in the Negro Leagues in 1948. With Mays’ passing coming at the time MLB was already set to honor Negro League players at the park, the league decided to combine both tributes.
“All of Major League Baseball is in mourning today as we are gathered…
