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Former MLB Slugger-Willie Mays Aikens

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Today on the BeachLifestyle Radio Show, Host Neil Haley The Total Tutor will interview one of the best Kansas City Royals player of All-Time! Willie Mays Aikens will discuss his book Willie Mays Aikens: Safe at Home!

Willie Aikens was a mighty slugger for the early 80s Royals, whose career and life were derailed by a terrible addiction to cocaine. He had terrific power, but was inept defensively. He played magnificently in the 1980 World Series, and had things bounced the Royals way, might have been Series MVP. Willie had a brief career in Major League baseball that was shortened prematurely by drug abuse. By age thirty he was washed up and out of baseball. And that would be the least of his problems.

Willie Mays Aikens was born in Seneca, South Carolina. He was given his famous name by the doctor who delivered him, thrusting great expectations on the newborn baby. Willie attended South Carolina State University, a historically black college and in 1975, he was taken by the California Angels in the January Amateur Draft. He opened eyes his second professional season, when he led the league in homers with 30 for AA El Paso while slugging .554. He hit .336 the next season for AAA Salt Lake City, slugging .569, while spending some time in the big leagues for the Angels.?

 

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