 baseball dignitaries past and present including godson and home run king barry bond sat on the field for the remembrances and video highlights going back to maize's stickball days in the streets outside of new york's polo grounds the hall of fame say hey kid among the early negro league stars who hit 660 career home runs despite spending 1952-54 in the army during the korean war died june 18th at the age of 93. the army honored maize in front of his family friends and former teammates and executives and thousands of fans