With more than 8,000 cards of Willie Mays total, selecting just five to encapsulate his Hall of Fame career is no easy feat. Still, here are Five Essential Baseball Cards of the sport's ...

GO DEEPER The Baseball 100: No. 1, Willie Mays The question for baseball card collectors was how Mays’ death and resultant publicity of an icon would impact his memorabilia, specifically his ...

The numbers Willie Mays consistently ... with his Topps baseball card for that season. After hitting .393 and slugging .604 in 116 minor league games, Mays made his Giants debut May 25, having ...

The 1970s vintage baseball cards embraced minimalistic charm with clean designs and single-colored borders. Legendary players like Willie Mays and Nolan Ryan made appearances in these sets ...

The first time I met Willie Mays and shook the hand of ... is 6-foot-7 and 245 pounds in the NBA record book and Mays, on my 1957 Topps card of him, is listed as 5-10½, I suppose this is impossible.

Long after "The Catch" and his 660 home runs, and the daring sprints around the bases with his hat falling off, Willie Mays could still command a room like no other. Mays was a frequent visitor to ...

Yet it is Willie ... card. Follow every MLB game: Latest MLB scores, stats, schedules and standings. Combine the two and strangely, that’s almost all that’s required to credibly pronounce Mays ...