This is an opinion column. It was a delicate step, a tentative step. A step back in time. A step into his father’s childhood ...
Family members of late baseball legend and Birmingham-native Willie Mays are working to preserve his childhood home in Fairfield.
Mays died on June 18. RELATED: ROY S. JOHNSON: WILLIE MAYS’ NEGLECTED CHILDHOOD HOME CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO DIE Born in 1931 in Westfield, a U.S. Steel community in Jefferson County, Mays attended ...
In Alabama, we visit the ball field where the late Willie Mays made his ... still in use and the former home of the Negro League Birmingham Black Barons. Mays, an Alabama native, played for ...
Seventy years later it’s still considered the greatest defensive play in World Series history. Running headlong toward the ...
And if we’re going to win, it takes all of us.” Willie Mays hits his 511th home run at the Astrodome in Houston in April, 1966, tying Mel Ott’s record for most National League career home runs. Mays ...
Willie inspired generations of players and fans as the game grew and truly earned its place as our National Pastime." Mays hit four home runs in a game in 1961 and twice topped 50 in a season ...
SHREVEPORT, La. - A Shreveport man has been convicted by a Caddo Parish jury of shooting and killing his neighbor on November ...
The state was able to rebut those claims with evidence that the defendant fled the scene following the shooting and discarded ...
Inside baseball. Her first full season as a fan was Willie Mays' last as a player. Lisa Pantages' has run the bases from ...
It’s been four months since baseball legend Willie Mays died at 93-years-old. Over the last several months there’s been ...