Add to your sports memorabilia collection or start one today with a Willie McCovey Hall of Fame Authentic Autographed Baseball! Willie Lee McCovey, a.k.a, "Big Mac" and "Stretch", was a Hall of Fame first baseman. He played nineteen seasons for the San Francisco Giants, and three more for the San Diego Padres and Oakland Athletics, between 1959 and 1980. McCovey batted and threw left-handed and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1986, his first year of eligibility.