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Bizarre But True: Meet The Baker Behind Willie Mays' 569 Pound Cake
The colossal cake looking like Willie's uniform number 24 weighed 569 pounds

HOUSTON — Celebrating a baseball legend's birthday. On Friday, Willie Mays turns 91. However, he will always remember his 37th birthday celebration. 안전놀이터

There's nothing similar to an impromptu get-together, yet this one for the incomparable Willie Mays unquestionably takes the cake.

It's May 6, 1968, and the San Francisco Giants are in Houston to play the Astros.

It's likewise Willie Mays' birthday.

Before the game, Astros proprietor Roy Hofheinz observes Willie turning 37... With an unexpected monstrous cake looking like Willie's uniform number 24 weighing 569 pounds

Why 569 pounds? It's one pound for every HR Willie's hit in the major associations.

What's it take to prepare a cake that enormous?

3,800 eggs, 150 pounds of margarine, 150 pounds of sugar, 300 pounds of flour and 100 pounds of almonds.

Goodness, it was likewise designed with Christmas tree lights.

The cake turns out to be enormous information, showing up in essentially every paper in the country.

And keeping in mind that we've recounted this story previously, there's currently another layer.

Meet Roland Lanz, the one who prepared it.

"I just preferred to heat cakes, you know?" he said.

Presently 88, he was the pioneer behind Roland's Swiss Pastry and Bakery in Houston, popular for its Hansel and Gretel houses. He was likewise an Astrodome merchant

His girl reached us subsequent to watching our underlying piece. The size of the cake actually astonishes her.

"You know, the transportation for something to that effect. I'm certain he needed to complete it in the arch," she said.

Roland says he was paid $2,000 for his endeavors. Today? That is more than $16,000!

A cosmic cake for Willie Mays' 37th birthday celebration, it's a weird yet obvious Houston sports story.