“The Say Hey Kid” Willie Howard Mays Jr. (1931–2024) began his career in the Negro Leagues (1947) before joining the Major League’s New York Giants in 1951. Excepting time in military service ...

Family members of late baseball legend and Birmingham-native Willie Mays are working to preserve his childhood home in Fairfield.

How Liddle got his man, though, is part of baseball lore and perhaps Example No. 1 that Willie Mays could do on the diamond what no other player could. Seventy years ago today, the Alabama native ...

Considered by many the greatest player in baseball history, Willie Mays died Tuesday at 93. He had been the oldest living member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. A star for the Giants in both New ...

When it came to skill sets in baseball, Willie Mays possessed them all: he was a consistent hitter with power, a marvel on defense, a speedy baserunner, and a clutch performer in all facets of the ...

In Alabama, we visit the ball field where the late Willie Mays made his professional debut, and look into today’s efforts to increase Black representation in baseball. Then in Illinois ...

The baseball world has saluted the achievements of Willie Mays, widely considered one of the sport's best ever players, after his death at age 93. Mays was twice declared the league's Most ...

Willie Mays, the San Francisco Giants’ baseball legend known as the ‘Say Hey Kid,’ died on Tuesday, the team announced. He was 93. Mays, regarded by many as the greatest all-around baseball player ...

Who was your favorite Detroit Tiger when you were young? Willie Mays was (and still is) my favorite San Francisco Giant. I still hate the Pittsburgh Pirates somewhat because they knocked my ...

Playing in an era dominated by the likes of Willie Mays, Mickey Mantle and Hank Aaron, Roberto Clemente was usually overlooked by fans when they discussed great players. Not until late in his 18 ...

Actually, he would let you look at it. And you still couldn't hit it," says Hall of Fame center fielder Willie Mays about Sandy Koufax on ESPN Classic's SportsCentury series. If one were to put ...

Notable deaths of 2024: Remembering Willie Mays, Princess Ira von Fürstenberg, Shannen Doherty, Richard Simmons and others who have died, so far, this year. Jan. 4, age 100 | British actress ...