But his over-the-should snag off the bat of Cleveland slugger Vic Wertz is the one that would be talked about for decades. According to Arnold Hano, who wrote a biography of Mays and was at the game, ...

According to Mays’ authorized biography, "Willie Mays: The Life The Legend" by author James S. Hirsch, the doctor who helped deliver Mays exclaimed "My God, look at those hands!" ...

Willie Mays, the “Say Hey Kid,” dazzled for most of a generation with the New York and San Francisco Giants and was arguably the greatest player in major league history.

After all, Murakami's birthday was May 6 -- a date he shared with teammate and friend Willie Mays. There was a cake waiting for them at practice that day. His teammates were glad for his return.

Decades later my daughter, without my prompting, chose a Mays biography for a fourth-grade book report. Mays impressed millions, including young Richard Pagnillo, on a visit to New York City from ...

A 1970-72 Willie Mays game-used MacGregor KC1P Professional Model Baseball Glove will be up for sale as part of Goldin's King of Collectibles auction, the company announced in a press release.

Willie Mays became an icon as soon as he returned to New York in 1954 after serving in the U.S. Army in 1952-53. He won NL MVP as a 23-year-old, and in Game 1 of that year’s World Series, he ...

Nicknamed the “Say Hey Kid,” Willie Mays was a 24-time All-Star who hit .301 with 660 home runs and 1,909 RBI and won 12 Gold Gloves as a center fielder during one of the greatest careers in ...

“Shut up!” insisted Willie Mays, the baseball legend who died last Tuesday at age 93. “Just shut up!” It was the summer of 1964, and Mays had convened all of the Black and Latino players ...

When my seventh grade English teacher instructed us to pick a biography for a book report project, I immediately knew who I wanted to read about. It was then that I learned the 24-time All Star ...

In 1952, five years after Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color line, Louisville was playing at Minneapolis, where the home team boasted a young, Black centerfielder nobody could get out. Willie Mays ...

Willie Mays visits PS 46 in Harlem, next to the site of the former Polo Grounds, where the New York Giants played before moving to San Francisco in 1958, on Jan. 21, 2011 in New York City.