"The day before, Bob Gibson has dusted Willie Mays and almost beaned him. The next day, Willie Mays had Bob Gibson and his former teammate Bill White visit Willie Mays at his home in San Francisco. When Mays answered the door he welcomed Bill White, but asked who was that with him. White says: "That's Bob Gibson." Mays didn’t recognize him since Gibson wore glasses away from the field. "I was wearing glasses at the time, but I never did wear 'em on the field. When Willie opened his door, I'm standing behind Bill White and Mays says: "Who is that?" Bill says: "That's Gibson." Mays said: "You wear glasses? You gonna kill somebody." And after that, Willie Mays never did lean over the plate too much." Bob Gibson. "I wasn’t mean. I don’t buy into any of it. I was just doing my job. You hear people talk about this glare that I had. You know, I’ve been wearing glasses for almost 60 years. I wasn’t glaring, I just couldn’t see the catcher’s signals. I was just trying to see. That’s all. But people turn everything into something else." Bob Gibson. In TWENTY SIX games in his career, Bob Gibson drove in MORE runs than he ALLOWED!!!!