The city’s land bank now owns the residence in a quiet Fairfield neighborhood. Restoration advocates have long envisioned ...

If the legend is correct, the baseball glove was first used extensively by a career .165 hitter, Charlie Waitt, 150 years ago.

Willie Mays Hayes’ dash around the bases at the end of Major League. But as much as we may love them, the classics have never been particularly concerned with fealty to the rhythms of the ...

There are so many Major League behind-the-scenes facts ... rushing home to watch this raucous baseball movie. Wesley Snipes’ Willie Mays Hayes will forever be remembered as one of the most ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Willie ... Mays also has a lesser-known tie to Utah, which resurfaced over the past week. That's because Mays was the premiere star in some of the first Major League Baseball ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) – Hundreds of Willie Mays fans stopped ... during which Lee said he believes Major League Baseball should retire No. 24 for Mays — just like the league retired No. 42 ...

He evolved into a first-rate ballplayer in his own right — a Negro League star ... You ever see a Willie Mays movie? Me either.” “Mays,” it was written in Sports Illustrated shortly ...

Legendary filmmaker Spike Lee was among those who made the trip to 24 Willie Mays Plaza. KRON4 caught up with Lee in an exclusive interview, where he said he believes Major League Baseball should ...

Mays was the sport’s consummate “five-tool” talent — he could hit for a high batting average, blast home runs, gallop around the bases, catch the ball and throw it with authority. He ...

GREAT WILLIE MAYS ... reporters caught up with Mays, who said he "had a funny feeling but was plenty happy" about getting called up. "Major league pitching will be different," he admitted before ...

Watkins thought about Rickwood Field, the 114-year-old ballpark in his hometown of Birmingham, Alabama, where Willie Mays got his start, and he called Major League Baseball with a pitch.