The first time I met Willie Mays and shook the hand of the ... fooled and his feet were scrambling like a crab in the batter’s box as he swung. Or why he could hit with only nine fingers on ...

On an October night in 1918, one month after Babe Ruth led the Boston Red Sox to a World Series victory, a successful New York stockbroker named Charles Stoneham came home with some unusual news ...

Baseball legend Willie Mays died ... The 1954 World Series pitted Mays' New York Giants against the Cleveland Indians. Tied 2-2 in the eighth inning of Game 1, Indians batter Vic Wertz hit a ...

The young Willie Mays, pictured just before he played his ... making a basket catch or standing in the batter's box. I could not take my eyes off Mays. Great athletes have an aura about how ...

It is very soon noticed that Willie Mays is the only one among them who runs to the box when his turn comes. “I’m gonna kill you cockseekers today,” he laughs. He fouls off two pitches then ...

The baseball world lost a legend Tuesday with the death of Willie ... Mays. We could go greater than five things, too, because Mays was amazing at everything. He checked every single virtual box ...

If they’d set up a recliner or massage chair or a throne for the exalted Willie Mays, nobody would have minded ... up in the third row of the press box in Cleveland, studying the action below?

Willie Mays, a perennial all-star center ... Counting the home run, Mr. Mays, a right-handed batter, began his career 1-for-26, a miserable stretch. “I was crying,” he recalled almost 70 ...

(AP Photo, File) (Uncredited, AP1961) NEW YORK – Willie Mays ... shot in the bottom of the ninth off Ralph Branca. Mays was the on-deck batter. “I was concentrating on Branca, what he was ...

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