OOPS: Pelosi Tweets Photo Of Different Black Baseball Player In Trying To Celebrate Willie Mays
Speaker Of The House Nancy Pelosi sent out a tweet congratulating Willie Mays on his 90th birthday.
But the man in the tweet wasn’t Willie Mays.
It was another former black baseball player: Willie McCovey.
Nancy Pelosi’s attempt to ‘say hey’ to baseball legend Willie Mays on his birthday proved difficult after she posted a picture of the wrong athlete on Twitter.
Thursday marked the 90th birthday for Mays, considered to be one of the greatest baseball players of all-time.
‘Happy 90th Birthday to an all-American icon, Willie Mays,’ the House Speaker tweeted on Thursday. ‘A trailblazing, record-breaking baseball player, civil rights leader, and champion for youth sports and well-being,