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 for ...
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. Prior to the game, ...
Willie Mays didn’t creep up on the baseball world. He famously started his career 0-for-12 and 1-for-26, with a home run off Warren Spahn in between, and manager Leo Durocher had to console an ...
All eyes in American baseball turned to Birmingham, Alabama’s historic Rickwood Field Thursday night, where the stands shook with deafening applause and hoots of pride in honor of one of the best the ...
The personal baseball collection of San Francisco Giants legend Willie Mays, including his 1963 and 1964 National League Gold Glove Awards are up for auction. Hundreds of pieces of Major League ...
WILLIE MAYS, thought by many to be the greatest all-around player ever, used this bat in a series with the Cardinals at Busch Stadium in June of 1954.
I was with my family when I heard Willie Mays died at 93. One of my kids asked: “Who is Willie Mays?” The person who posed the question is 20 and was born 30 years after Mays retired from a celebrated ...
The first time I met Willie Mays and shook the hand of the greatest baseball player I’ve ever seen, I was looking at his face, not at my hand. Then I looked down. My hand had disappeared inside his ...
A historic auction featuring Willie Mays' personal collection includes his 1954 World Series ring and a photo-matched uniform he wore during the 1962 regular season and All-Star Game. All proceeds ...