LOS ANGELES — Vin Scully was a Dodgers legend.

But his all-time favorite player was a longtime member of the hated Giants: Willie Mays.

Scully made the revelation to Mays when the two of them met, possibly for the first time, the night before Scully called his final Dodgers game after 67 years in the booth. A heartwarming video from that Oct. 1, 2016, interaction resurfaced on social media Tuesday after news broke that Mays died earlier that day at age 93.

"You've always been my favorite player, even though you wore the wrong uniform," Scully told a laughing Mays.

Scully died Aug. 2, 2022, at age 94.

The Dodgers finished the 2016 season with a series against the Giants in Oracle Park, which meant Scully's farewell tour was going to wrap up in San Francisco of all places. Before the start of the second game of that series, Mays made a surprise visit to the broadcast booth, much to Scully's delight.

Somehow, the legendary broadcaster felt the need to introduce himself to the "Say Hey Kid."

"I know who you are," Mays said.

Scully went on to shower Mays with compliments, saying he was "dazzling" in the field and "the greatest player I ever called."

"You charged every base hit like you were a shortstop," Scully told the former center fielder. "That's what amazed me, and I used to tell people, do you realize that he charges and he gets the throw in, it could go 483 feet?"

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