Today marks a special day in the world of baseball. MLB legend Willie Mays is now 90 years old. Born in Westfield, Alabama back in 1931, Mays soon became one of the greatest baseball players to ever ...
Mays and others believe he made better catches than his robbery of Vic Wertz. But because of the stage - Game 1 of the World Series - it is regarded as his greatest. The game was tied 2-2 in the ...
Editor's note: This article originally posted on the San Francisco Examiner. Click here for more culture reporting at sfexaminer.com Author Jim Hirsch wrote in his bestselling 2010 biography “Willie ...
When Jackie Robinson broke the color line in baseball in 1947, he became the public face of integrated professional sports. A few years later, Willie Mays built on that achievement by becoming the ...