“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 ...
Willie Mays, one of the greatest baseball players to ever live, passed away peacefully Tuesday afternoon. He was 93. Mays was a longtime New York/San Francisco Giant and briefly a New York Met ...
Willie Mays started and ended his career in the same city but with different teams. Mays started and ended his career in the same city but with different teams. He broke in with the New York ...
Hall of Fame pitcher Tom Glavine believes one of his former teammates should be in the Hall of Fame and compared him to ...
From coast to coast in New York and San Francisco, Willie inspired generations of players and fans as the game grew and truly earned its place as our National Pastime.” Mays was inducted into ...
"Willie Mays took his all-around brilliance from the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro American League to the historic ...
After Ted Williams passed away, someone asked me if Willie Mays was the greatest ... I suppose DiMaggio earned the title over Mays because he played in New York longer. Plus, as they say, "Absence ...
In the mid-20th century, three young phenoms had New York abuzz with baseball ... Who was better? Duke Snider, Willie Mays or Mickey Mantle? More than six decades have passed since Snider ...
2015 — Klay Thompson sets an NBA record for the most points in a quarter, a 37-point third period that powers the Golden ...