The first time I met Willie Mays and shook the hand of the ... fooled and his feet were scrambling like a crab in the batter’s box as he swung. Or why he could hit with only nine fingers on ...

On an October night in 1918, one month after Babe Ruth led the Boston Red Sox to a World Series victory, a successful New York stockbroker named Charles Stoneham came home with some unusual news ...

Baseball legend Willie Mays died ... The 1954 World Series pitted Mays' New York Giants against the Cleveland Indians. Tied 2-2 in the eighth inning of Game 1, Indians batter Vic Wertz hit a ...

The baseball world lost a legend Tuesday with the death of Willie ... Mays. We could go greater than five things, too, because Mays was amazing at everything. He checked every single virtual box ...

After Ted Williams passed away, someone asked me if Willie Mays was the greatest ... stealing a base or standing and swinging in the batter's box. Mays always looked like he was enjoying the ...

Willie Mays, a perennial all-star center ... Counting the home run, Mr. Mays, a right-handed batter, began his career 1-for-26, a miserable stretch. “I was crying,” he recalled almost 70 ...

(AP Photo, File) (Uncredited, AP1961) NEW YORK – Willie Mays ... shot in the bottom of the ninth off Ralph Branca. Mays was the on-deck batter. “I was concentrating on Branca, what he was ...

Willie Mays ... round the world home run. Mays won the Rookie of the Year award that season, and in a fun piece of baseball trivia, he was the on-deck batter when Thomson hit his famous home ...

You can't find any holes for Willie Mays ... 3,300 career hits. "As a batter, his only weakness is a wild pitch," Bill Rigney, one of his managers, once quipped. Mays could hit for a power.

Willie Mays passed ... In fact, during that World Series, Mays made one of baseball’s most celebrated defensive plays. With runners on base, the Cleveland batter hit a deep fly ball towards ...

Now, I’ve gone from the on-deck circle to the batter’s box.” Alabama’s the pitch. When Willie was a child, his father Willie Howard Mays bought a modest, middle-class house in Fairfield.

The man deemed by many to be the greatest baseball player to have ever lived, a player more deeply ingrained in San Francisco Giants history than any other, died Tuesday at the age 93, days before ...