{"id":124260,"date":"2021-05-08T04:17:03","date_gmt":"2021-05-08T04:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=124260"},"modified":"2021-05-08T04:17:03","modified_gmt":"2021-05-08T04:17:03","slug":"nancy-pelosi-gets-willies-mixed-up-posts-mccovey-photo-on-mays-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/politics\/nancy-pelosi-gets-willies-mixed-up-posts-mccovey-photo-on-mays-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Nancy Pelosi gets Willies mixed up, posts McCovey photo on Mays\u2019 birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/cf-images.us-east-1.prod.boltdns.net\/v1\/static\/694940094001\/1b021ab2-998c-4f09-9fb6-e347f124957d\/398faa53-b1b8-48f4-9167-171d2479b5d4\/1280x720\/match\/931\/524\/image.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\"><\/p>\n<h4>Fox News Flash top headlines for May 7<\/h4>\n<p>Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what&#8217;s clicking on Foxnews.com.<\/p>\n<p>Score this one a big error for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday was the 90th birthday of MLB legend Willie Mays, who played most of his career for Pelosi\u2019s hometown team, the San Francisco Giants.<\/p>\n<p>But Pelosi marked the occasion by posting a photo of herself with another famous Willie, former Giants star Willie McCovey, who died in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Happy 90th Birthday to an all-American icon, Willie Mays,&#8221; Pelosi captioned the shot of herself and McCovey, who was a longtime teammate of Mays\u2019 in the 1960s and 1970s and was also feared as a homerun hitter. (McCovey\u2019s wife Estela was also in the photo.)<\/p>\n<p>The speaker\u2019s office, which blamed a staffer for the mistake, soon swapped in a photo of Pelosi with the correct Willie, using the same caption.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/640\/320\/AP21125498975463.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1\"><\/p>\n<p>\n      Baseball legend Willie Mays is seen in San Francisco, Aug. 19, 2016. (Associated Press)\n      <\/p>\n<p>But sharp-eyed social media users already noticed the error.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was half expecting a picture with Orlando Cepeda or something,&#8221; one commenter wrote, referring to another Giants star of the era.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Second time\u2019s the charm,&#8221; another wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Mays \u2013 who started with the Giants in the 1950s when the team was based in New York, and then concluded his career in the 1970s with the New York Mets &#8212; received numerous well wishes on his birthday, including from retired Yankees star Derek Jeter, retired baseball broadcaster Vin Scully and former President Barack Obama, according to San Francisco radio station KCBS.<\/p>\n<p>During their Hall of Fame careers, Mays smacked 660 homeruns while McCovey hit 521.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/nancy-pelosi-gets-willies-mixed-up-posts-mccovey-photo-on-mays-birthday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News Flash top headlines for May<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":124259,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23055],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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