“The Say Hey Kid” Willie Howard Mays Jr. (1931–2024) began his career in the Negro Leagues (1947) before joining the Major League’s New York Giants in 1951. Excepting time in military service ...

Major League Baseball Hall of Fame player and baseball icon Willie Mays died at ... from the plate and center field, Mays was ...

Quoted in "Willie Mays" by Arnold Hano "Don't get me wrong ... and performed a miracle in the field everyday I'd still look you in the eye and say Willie was better. He could do the five things ...

Willie Mays, widely considered to be one of the greatest baseball players in the history of the game, has died at 93. "It is ...

He was a first-ballot Baseball Hall of Famer in 1979. More: Willie Mays and Rickwood Field: the beginning of the Say Hey Kid's legendary MLB career Leroy "Satchel" Paige joined the Black Barons in ...