Willie Mays Aikens struck out more than 400 times in the majors. Big is how he lived life. “As a baseball player, the highest of highs was when I hit those multiple homer games in the World Series.

Willie Mays Aikens has reached some of the highest peaks and plummeted to the lowest valleys in his life.. Aikens played in the 1980 World Series with the Royals and hit four home runs. But in ...

Willie Mays Aikens has reached some of the highest peaks and plummeted to the lowest valleys in his life. Aikens played in the 1980 World Series with the Royals and hit four home runs. But in 1994 ...

In 1980, the auspiciously named first baseman Willie Mays Aikens made baseball history when he hit two home runs in two World Series games, a feat that wasn’t repeated until 2009. That year, the ...

The first time I met Willie Mays and shook the hand of the greatest baseball player I’ve ever seen, I was looking at his face, not at my hand. Then I looked down. My hand had disappeared inside ...

Setting that aside, “Say Hey, Willie Mays!” is the kind of treat to help tide over baseball fans through the post-season, giving Mays his due while he’s still around to take a bow.

Instead — with a script by Gregory W. Jordan, based on the 2012 book he co-wrote with Aikens, “Willie Mays Aikens: Safe at Home” — the movie recounts what happened to the major league ...

Bill Hurrelbrink sits down with Willie Mays Aikens to talk about the new movie depicting the highs and lows of his life, from prison to the Kansas City Royals ...

In 1980, the auspiciously named first baseman Willie Mays Aikens made baseball history when he hit two home runs in two World Series games, a feat that wasn’t repeated until 2009. That year, the ...