AT & T Park ( originally Pacific Bell Park and later SBC Park ) sits on the shores of China Basin ( often referred to as McCovey Cove by Giants fans ) at the corner of 3rd and King Streets ( with an official address of 24 Willie Mays Plaza to honor the long-time Giant ).

Given the wide variety of clientele at the club, which includes Willie the Giant and Elliott the Dragon, the amount of seating at the club could vary wildly at times.

* Fun and Fancy Free: Willie the Giant, Bongo, and Lulubelle.

Willie the Giant as he appears in Fun and Fancy Free.

Willie the Giant is a giant that appeared in the Disney cartoons Mickey and the Beanstalk ( from the film Fun and Fancy Free, voiced by Billy Gilbert ) and Mickey's Christmas Carol ( voiced by Will Ryan ).

In late 2007, Bo Bice joined veteran Southern rock legends Jimmy Hall-vocals / sax / harmonica ( Wet Willie Band ), Henry Paul-vocals / guitar / mandolin ( Outlaws, BlackHawk ), Steve Gorman-drums ( Black Crowes, Jimmy Page ), " Dangerous " Dan Toler-guitar ( The Gregg Allman Band, The Allman Brothers, Dickey Betts & Great Southern ), Reese Wynans-keyboards ( Stevie Ray Vaughan ), Mike Brignardello-bass ( Giant, renowned session player ), Jay Boy Adams-guitar ( Texas blues solo artist ) to record Brothers of the Southland celebrating Southern rock with a renewed spirit and maturity.

Nash was the only original voice actor in the film as Walt Disney ( Mickey Mouse ) and Pinto Colvig ( Goofy ) had died in the 1960s, Cliff Edwards ( Jiminy Cricket ) and Billy Gilbert ( Willie the Giant ) in 1971, and Billy Bletcher ( Pete ) in 1979.

The second spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Present ( Willie the Giant ), arrives and shows Scrooge the poverty-stricken Cratchit family, who still keep a festive attitude in their home despite their hardships.

The most prominent feature of the ballpark is the right field wall, which is high in honor of former Giant Willie Mays, who wore number 24.

In that season, he batted. 291 with a league-best 125 RBI and 47 home runs, leading the team to the playoffs and winning the National League's Most Valuable Player award, the first by a Giant since Willie McCovey in.

In 1947's Fun and Fancy Free component " Mickey and the Beanstalk ", the cartoon ends with Willie the Giant stomping through Hollywood looking for Mickey Mouse.

Liddle is most remembered as the man who, in Game 1 of the 1954 World Series, threw the pitch to Vic Wertz that resulted in The Catch — Giant center fielder Willie Mays ' historic back-to-home-plate, over-the-shoulder grab of Wertz ' line drive with two men on base in the deepest part of centerfield at the Giants ' home field, the Polo Grounds.

This roused the ire of Willie the Giant, who is able to transform himself into anything.

The cartoon ends with Willie the Giant stomping through Hollywood looking for Mickey Mouse.

* Billy Gilbert – Willie the Giant

* John Lounsbery ( Willie the Giant )

Gilbert and Disney would later work together again in Mickey and the Beanstalk, with Gilbert voicing Willie the Giant in a very similar way to Sneezy.

He was the first Giant since Willie McCovey to register at least 3 hits in his first Major League game.

He voiced Rabbit in Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore, Digit in An American Tail, Petrie in The Land Before Time with the current voice of Willie the Giant, started voicing the character from Mickey's Christmas Carol and continues to do voice work.

Pete, Clarabelle Cow, Ludwig Von Drake, Chip ' n ' Dale, Willie the Giant, Butch, Figaro the Kitten, Humphrey the Bear, Salty the Seal, and Mortimer Mouse have made guest appearances.

* Will Ryan as Willie the Giant

In 1977, there was an update to this show entitled Disney's Greatest Villains, that featured the Evil Queen and Captain Hook again, along with eight other characters from the franchise, plus Madam Mim and Willie the Giant.

* 1958 – Willie O ' Ree, the first African Canadian National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut with the Boston Bruins.

Enraged, Willie grabs them, places them inside a small jewellery box, with the golden harp, but Mickey manages to escape, and with the help of the singing harp who sings to put Willie to sleep, makes his way into Willie's shirt pocket and steals the key, accidentally landing in a small box of dust and pepper, making him, and Willie sneeze and almost alerting him to his presence in the process.

Willie at first makes it clear that he does not want her there.

* In North Towards Home, Willie Morris quotes Sir Thomas Browne's Urn Burial from memory as he walks up Park Avenue with William Styron: "' And since death must be the Lucina of life, and even Pagans could doubt, whether thus to live were to die ; since our longest sun sets at right descensions, and makes but winter arches, and therefore it cannot be long before we lie down in darkness and have our light in ashes …' At that instant I was almost clipped by a taxicab, and the driver stuck his head out and yelled, ' Aincha got eyes in that head, ya bum?

Bob Dylan used the melody in his song " Blind Willie McTell " ( released on Bootleg Series, Volumes 1 – 3 ), named for blues singer Blind Willie McTell ( who had recorded a version under the title " Dying Crapshooter's Blues "); the song makes reference to the St. James Hotel in Minneapolis.

" Willie Nelson, who is credited on the 2004 album, also provides a verse which makes reference to his hit " On the Road Again ".

He still makes regular appearances as a host at the Opry, often with the self-deprecating joke that he is also known as " Willie Nelson after taxes.

In the television show Dallas, J. R. Ewing makes himself a prairie oyster after a long night out with Jeb Ames and Willie Joe Garr in the Season One Episode Bypass.

Barnabas makes Willie his slave, then presents himself to the modern day Collins family ( Roger, Elizabeth, Carolyn, and David ) as a " cousin from England.

Cora makes an unexpected visit to Willie's while he is away and tells the girls they are being ripped off from Willie.

She then had a brief relationship with Willie Nelson, her co-star in the film Honeysuckle Rose.

" Yesternow " also incorporates a brief excerpt of " Shhh / Peaceful " from Davis's 1969 album In a Silent Way and a 10-minute section comprising several takes of the tune " Willie Nelson " from a session on 18 February 1970.

In the verse which begins " Willie Thorne, his hair's all gone ", Willie's cameo line was " Perhaps I ought to chalk it ", in reference to his gleaming head putting off his opponents.

* 1900 – Willie Kamm, American baseball player ( d. 1988 )

A few of the many Carolina League players who have gone on to star in the Major Leagues are: Johnny Bench ( Peninsula, 1966 ), Wade Boggs ( Winston-Salem, 1977 ), Barry Bonds ( Prince William, 1985 ), Rod Carew ( Wilson, 1966 ), Dock Ellis ( Kinston, 1965 ), Dwight Evans ( Winston-Salem, 1971 ), Dwight Gooden ( Lynchburg, 1983 ), Andruw Jones ( Durham, 1996 ), Chipper Jones ( Durham, 1992 ), Willie McCovey ( Danville, 1956 ), Joe Morgan ( Durham, 1963 ), Dave Parker ( Salem, 1972 ), Tony Pérez ( Rocky Mount, 1962 ), Andy Pettitte ( Prince William, 1993 ), Jorge Posada ( Prince William, 1993 ), Darryl Strawberry ( Lynchburg, 1981 ), Bernie Williams ( Prince William, 1988 ), and Carl Yastrzemski ( Raleigh, 1959 ).

* 1988: Bird-Les Fresholtz, Dick Alexander, Vern Poore, Willie Burton

" Burton's information during the Whitewater controversy was based on opposition research conducted by Floyd Brown, who founded Citizens United in 1988, which created the well-known Willie Horton attack ad against Michael Dukakis.

* Willie Horton who became a " poster boy " for the Massachusetts prison furlough program and the liberal sensibilities of Michael Dukakis in the 1988 US Presidential Elections.

Starting in 1988 under then-mayor Art Agnos, and continuing under the direction of subsequent mayors including Frank Jordan, Willie Brown and Gavin Newsom, San Francisco police have conducted intermittent sweeps of the park aimed at eliminating the camps.

: 5 Willie Wilson ( 1980, 1982, 1985, 1987 – 1988 )

The Willie Horton commercials used by supporters of George H. W. Bush against Michael Dukakis in the election of 1988 were considered by many Democrats, including Jesse Jackson, Lloyd Bentsen, and many newspaper editors, to be racist.

Although commercials about Willie Horton were not run until the fall campaign, Bush first mentioned him at the Texas Republican convention on June 9, 1988.

In February 17, 1987 the Washington State Supreme Court issued a stay of execution a month before Willie Mak's scheduled execution, but on May 2, 1988 the state Supreme Court let Mak's murder conviction stand.

However, then on November 10, 1988 Willie Mak's execution was delayed indefinitely by a federal judge.

The song has come to represent the decade of its creation, and it has been covered by many artists, from his peers like Glen Campbell, Bob Dylan, Percy Sledge and Sam & Dave to artists of various genres, including Jimmy Velvit ( whose cover version was included on his 2001 Grammy nominated album Sun Sea & Sand ), Widespread Panic ( 2006 ), Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson, Kenny Rankin, Dennis Brown, Michel Pagliaro, Jacob Miller, Michael Bolton ( whose version of the song reached # 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1988 ), Pearl Jam, The Format, T. Rex ( as a b-side of " Dreamy Lady " on March 11, 1975 ), Brent Smith of Shinedown ( during an acoustic set in 2008 ), Justin Nozuka ( 2007 ) and Sara Bareilles ( 2008 ).

* Willie Horton and Revolving Door ads used by in the 1988 presidential campaign against Michael Dukakis.

* Willie Horton ad, 1988.

John James " Whispering Willie " Williams ( May 17, 1904 – January 11, 1988 ) was an American businessman and politician from Millsboro, in Sussex County, Delaware.

William ' Willie ' Ross, Baron Ross of Marnock MBE ( 7 April 1911 – 10 June 1988 ) was the longest serving Secretary of State for Scotland, holding office from 1964 to 1970 and again from 1974 to 1976, throughout the prime ministership of Harold Wilson.

** Esi Tonga ( 1988 –), Australian Rugby league player, brother of Willie Tonga

An audiobook of Asterix the Gladiator adapted by Anthea Bell and narrated by Willie Rushton was released on EMI Records Listen for Pleasure label in 1988.

* Willie Anderson ( basketball ) ( born 1967 ), former professional basketball player and 1988 Olympic bronze medalist

He won the 1988 Willie Mac Award honoring his spirit and leadership.

* An audiobook of Asterix and the Magic Carpet adapted by Anthea Bell and narrated by Willie Rushton was released on EMI Records Listen for Pleasure label in 1988.

The 2012 game again broke from tradition in featuring the New Orleans Saints, for which 2012 enshrinee and offensive tackle Willie Roaf played most of his career, facing the Arizona Cardinals in their first appearance in the game since moving to Arizona in 1988.

Willie Clay Upshaw ( born April 27, 1957 in Blanco, Texas ) is a retired Major League Baseball player who played first base for the Toronto Blue Jays ( 1978, 1980 – 1987 ) and Cleveland Indians ( 1988 ), both of the American League.