Said President Barack Obama, who honored Mays with the Congressional Medal of Freedom: “Willie Mays wasn’t just a singular athlete, blessed with an unmatched combination of grace, skill and power.

Willie Mays, in his new role as batting instructor with the New York Mets talks with from left, Benny Ayala; Dave Schneck; George Theodore on March 3, 1974 in St. Petersburg.

Michael Mays, the son of Willie Mays, was set to throw out the first pitch Wednesday for game two of the Subway Series — just over a week after his Hall of Fame father died at 93.

Willie Mays’ son wants people to remember his father’s Mets tenure a little differently.. When the Mets acquired the all-time baseball great in May of 1972, Mays was 41 years old and more than ...

About one week since Willie Mays died at 93, his son Michael paid tribute to his father and threw out the first pitch before the Subway Series.

Willie Mays bought a 15-room mansion in a New York City suburb to escape housing discrimination in San Francisco and remained under the radar, as rumors swirled about a crumbling marriage. When ...

If you were a 14-year-old kid in the summer of 1951, you couldn’t just knock on Willie Mays’ window at 9 o’clock in the morning and have Willie come out and play an hour of stickball with ...

It was a picture from 2004 of Mays holding Stone's then-10-month-old daughter Haley, ... Willie Mays had such an effect on the game that even he knew who ... Aiken Standard 326 Rutland Drive N.W ...

Willie Mays opened his big-league career with a confidence-rattling 0-for-12 stretch before finally blasting a home run off Warren Spahn early in 1951. “I’ll never forgive myself,’’ Spahn ...

Willie Mays, who played 21 of his 23 major-league seasons with the Giants, making the iconic over-the-shoulder bucket catch in Game 1 of the 1954 World Series, kept strong ties to the organization.

Willie Mays hit a home run over the left-field fence to end it. We saw 21 innings of baseball that day and Mays wasn’t a factor until the biggest moment.