In his 1988 book, “Say Hey: The Autobiography of Willie Mays,” the famed baseball player, who died Tuesday at the age of 93, wrote about how he first got his chance to play for the Barons ...
Willie Mays took his all-around brilliance from ... the answer is simple,” he said at the close of his autobiography. “All I ever wanted was to play baseball forever. Leo [Durocher] always ...
Yet, for one reason or another, he never became Babe Ruth or Joe DiMaggio - or, arguably, even Willie Mays, his exact contemporary. "But for generations of men, he's the guy, has been the guy ...
And you still couldn't hit it," says Hall of Fame center fielder Willie Mays about Sandy Koufax on ... who wrote Koufax's autobiography with the pitcher, called his "wall of amiability." ...
Packed in a small room in the upstairs of a Northampton house, millions of words reside.About 2,500 books, to be exact — and ...
Regarded as one of the greatest baseball players who ever lived, Willie Mays was astounding to watch ... finally admitted to the charge in a 2004 autobiography). Death may finally give Rose ...
The confession was made public two years later in an autobiography ... among them were Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays, who in 1979, well after their careers were over, drew the censure of ...
In the decades following, Dodgers manager Leo Durocher and Detroit Tigers pitcher Denny McLain were among those suspended for gambling, and Willie Mays and ... in a 2004 autobiography that ...
He wrote in his 2004 autobiography ... as a pro to ask for tips from great hitters like Hank Aaron and Willie Mays; and doing homework on opposing pitchers. “I knew what every pitcher ...