Everyone from Spike Lee to Bill Clinton to Barry Bonds and plenty more came out Monday for a star-studded two-and-a-half-hour tribute to the late Giants great Willie Mays at Oracle Park, paying a joyful homage to the “Say Hey Kid.”

When San Francisco Giants legend Willie Mays died in June at age 93, the Giants’ Negro Leagues tribute game at Mays’s hometown Rickwood Field in Alabama two days later became an homage to Mays. But the Giants are doing many homages to Mays over the course of this season, and the grandest of them all might have been Monday night’s celebration of Willie Mays’s life at Oracle Park, as the Chronicle reports. That celebration brought out Mays’s godson Barry Bonds, former teammate Dusty Baker, filmmaker Spike Lee, and even former president Bill Clinton.

“Willie outworked people and out-thought people,” Clinton said in his address, seen below, according to the Chronicle. “He knew the gifts God gave him, and he took advantage of them.”

Clinton recalled listening to a radio broadcast of Mays’s famed “The Catch” in the 1954 World Series while growing up in Arkansas. Though as the Chron notes, this may have been a tall tale on Clinton’s part, as Clinton would have been only eight years old at the time.

And it was certainly a fib when former SF Mayor Willie Brown told the crowd Monday that “None of us in the city liked the Giants until Willie Mays came over,” as the New York Times reports, considering that Mays had already been with the Giants for seven years when they relocated from New York to San Francisco in 1958.

But we will forgive the old men their foggy recollections of Mays’s groundbreaking legacy, which former president Barack Obama covered in a video address to the stadium. “Whether you were Black or white, everyone could appreciate Willie’s unbridled enthusiasm, his work ethic, his inherent dignity and graciousness,” Obama said in his address. “Willie’s popularity would change racial attitudes in a way that political speeches never could."

MLB.com reports that many baseball greats also came to speak and pay their respects: former Giants manager Dusty Baker, Mays’s Giants teammates Juan Marichal and Felipe Alou, Hall of Famers Reggie Jackson, Dennis Eckersley and Rickey Henderson, and of course, Giants announcer Jon Miller.

“Thank you, Willie,” Barry Bonds said in tribute to his godfather Mays. “Willie, 55 years ago, you put your arms around a 5-year-old boy and said, ‘Hey kid, you’re coming with me.’ And I knew at that moment what I wanted to be. That was a professional baseball player, like my father and Willie.”

Mays dominates the Giants’ and Major League Baseball’s record books, and people forget that he would have put up much gaudier statistics had he not lost two seasons of his career serving in the Korean War. So as KGO points out, Mays got a full military rendition of “Taps” from a US Army band at Monday’s ceremony. KGO also adds that “Approximately 3,400 fans were in the stands and 4,500 people total” for the service.

A few other Willie Mays tributes stood out, so we’re including them below.

Related: SF Giants Legend Willie Mays Has Died at 93

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Each year during 9/11—which, as you know, is today—AT&T Park plays host to San Francisco's memorial to the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon that shocked the world 11 years ago. Here are a few images of the memorial now on display at Third and King in SOMA.

As SFist reported back in February, Corie Woods, an avid member of the Bay Area music community who shared her love for the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival on SFist, died unexpectedly at the age of 34. Her friends and family have organized an all-ages, family-friendly memorial concert that will take place at Bottom of the Hill on Sunday the 22nd. The line-up features lots of prominent musicians, including Chris Guthridge, Paula Frazer, members of Loquat, Eric Shea, and many more.

Proceeds from the concert will benefit the newly established Corie Rocks Music Foundation, which will fund musical instruments and lessons for kids in the Bay Area.

From the words of Corie's close friend, Raul Sanchez:

Corie was by far the biggest live music fan I've ever known...rock, country, roots, bluegrass, jazz, indie, metal, punk, pop...she was there, in the crowd moving her feet, whooping it up, yelling for more. Her smile could be seen through the dark haziness among the crowd from the stage. Her laughter heard through an "up to capacity filled" venue. Often the first at a show, her sight and presence was encouraging — the kind of person you wanted to play your entire heart out for...and still do.

Celebrating Corie Woods/A Memorial Concert
Sunday, April 22nd 2 to 6:30 p.m.
All Ages/$8
Bottom of the Hill
1233 17th Street

An unidentified man carries flowers outside Oikos University moments before a noontime memorial is scheduled to take place. It's been four days since suspected gunman and former student One Goh walked into the Christian university and shot 10 people, killing 7. Goh stands accused of killing Tshering Rinzing Bhutia, 38, of San Francisco; Katleen Ping, 24, of Oakland; Judith Seymour, 53, of San Jose; Lydia Sim, 21, of Hayward; Sonam Choedon, 33, of El Cerrito; Grace Eunhea Kim, 23, of Union City; and Doris Chibuko, 40, of San Leandro.

The gun used in the attack was found this morning in the Estuary off Doolittle Drive.

SFist was saddened to hear that Corie Woods, the author of this week's SFist Memoirs article paying tribute to the late Warren Hellman and his Hardly Strictly Bluegrass legacy, passed away suddenly on Wednesday. She was 34. Born and raised in the East Bay, Corie was a huge part of the Bay Area music community now reeling from the loss.

Here are a few words from Corie's best friend, Emily Hirsch (pictured above):

I will always remember the fun times we had there [at Hardly Strictly], even when it was foggy and freezing. As you can see in the photo we look weathered but happy. Corie loved staking out a place and bringing lots of treats to eat all day while we listened to the music. She was friends with so many people that we would constantly run into people she knew who I couldn't ever keep track of. She was truly in her element there, surrounded by good music and lots of friends.

An audio recording of Corie's full interview with SFist, which was recorded on Tuesday night at Whiskey Thieves, can be downloaded here.

To the many folks who knew her, Sunday's concert will be both a tribute to Corie and her beloved Warren Hellman.

Update: The cause of death has not been determined. The autopsy results will reportedly take two to three months.

The Coalition on Homelessness, San Francisco Network Ministries, and the general public will gather tonight to honor those who died while homeless. The memorial will happen at 5:30 p.m. at Civic Center Plaza across from City Hall. "The memorial is traditionally held on the winter solstice because, according to organizers, it represents the coldest, darkest time for the homeless population," notes BCN.

The night will involve chanting, singing, prayers, and a reading of the homeless individuals who died.

Filmed on October 19 at the Cupertino headquarters, Apple posted the entire Steve Jobs memorial on their site. It's available on Safari, so if you're using Chrome (like any rational, clear-thinking person) or Firefox, you can't view it just yet. However, if you're on a Mac, go to your "recent items" and click on the oft-ignored Safari icon to see Al Gore and Tim Cook talk about the fallen Apple visionary. You can also watch Gwyneth Platrow's husband's band perform a song in honor of Steve Jobs, among other notables moments.

During his opening remarks, CEO Cook revealed that the past two weeks had been the saddest of his life. "But I know Steve. Steve would have wanted this cloud to lift for Apple and our focus to return to the work that he loved so much," he said.

Cook also spoke about the last bit of advice Jobs gave him, which was "to never ask what [Jobs] would do, just do what's right."

It runs around 81 minutes long. Check it out.

Meanwhile, in New York City: The National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center site opened today to the public. According to Gothamist, who made an appearance at this morning's somber opening, "Admission is free, but you need to sign up online for reservations, which are almost completely snatched up through the end of October." Here are some images from this morning's press tour, before the gates officially opened to the public.