It’s been four months since baseball legend Willie Mays died at 93-years-old. Over the last several months there’s been ...
Inside baseball. Her first full season as a fan was Willie Mays' last as a player. Lisa Pantages' has run the bases from ...
“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 ...
When it came to skill sets in baseball, Willie Mays possessed them ... California surrounded by friends and family members. His son, Michael Mays, said, “My father has passed away peacefully ...
She said even in his later years, Mays delighted in coming to the Giants clubhouse to talk baseball. “Nothing gives him more pleasure than teaching the game,” she said. “And nothing gives him more ...
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 ...
Among them: MLB’s Willie Mays, Stan Musial, Joe DiMaggio and Hank Aaron ... The Sixties in the Lives of American Children.” ...
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 ...
Seventy years later it’s still considered the greatest defensive play in World Series history. Running headlong toward the ...
Family members of late baseball legend and Birmingham-native Willie Mays are working to preserve his childhood home in Fairfield.
Family of Willie Mays trying to preserve his childhood home ...