Shohei Ohtani’s 10 strikeouts and 3 home runs in Game 4 sealed the Dodgers’ pennant, bridging Japan and America through one transcendent night of baseball.
Mays was a central figure in defining the Black experience of overcoming the oppressive demonization of African descendants  in the Jim Crow South and the rejection of systemic racism by embodying and reflecting Black excellence as he grew into manhood.