The lineup of speakers started with Giants president Larry Baer and culminated with Michael Mays, Willie’s son. Baer set an appropriate tone, remembering attending games as a kid and hearing the ...

In 2010, in a discussion about Barack Obama, the first Black U.S. president, academic and author Eric Dyson used Willie Mays to make a larger point about how opportunities and expectations shouldn ...

One of the greatest all-around players the sport has ever seen, Mays was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1979. In 2015 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack ...

At the National Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum in Cooperstown, the history of black baseball is on display. There are ...