Willie Mays will have a San Francisco cable car dedicated to him on Friday, his 85th birthday, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Mays will attend the event and is expected to take a ride on the cable car.
The cable car is dedicated to Mays' No. 24, the number he wore when he played for the Giants.
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Malcolm Heinicke, Mays’ friend and lawyer, proposed the idea to dedicate the car to the Hall of Famer to Mayor Ed Lee at the Giants’ World Series celebration at the White House in June.