Willie McCovey, Orlando Cepeda. Then I sat with Gaylord Perry, who told me he used to flash signals in various ways from the pitcher’s mound to Mays in center field. According to Perry ...

He was 80. One of the most beloved Giants of all-time, McCovey slugged 521 home runs over the course of a career that spanned four decades. He will be best remembered as Willie Mays’ tag-team ...

While those athletes of yesteryear have now come and gone, the next great generation has kept Alabama in the spotlight. Stars ...

The late Willie McCovey was Mays' longtime teammate in San Francisco. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) WILLIE MCCOVEY: His legacy - he'll go down as the greatest player of all time. I think we ...

And none of them ever did what the mighty Casey Schmitt just did this weekend. Schmitt launched a grand slam o ...

Local fans tended to gravitate more toward homegrown stars like Willie McCovey and Orlando Cepeda. But in the end, Mays proved impossible to resist. “The line I always used to describe him was ...

No doubt, the Giants' inability to win more pennants, despite Hall of Famers such as Juan Marichal, Willie McCovey and Orlando Cepeda surrounding him, hurt Mays in the MVP voting. The Giants can ...

Willie McCovey; and others. Today, however, in tribute to Mays, a larger-than-life bronze statue of him stands in Willie Mays Plaza at Oracle Park in downtown San Francisco, and he was voted into ...

Mays finished with 3,283. His career batting average was a stellar .302. Number two – Hitting with power. His career total of 660 home runs is the sixth most in history. Willie McCovey was Mays ...