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How Willie Mays, and my first visit to the ballpark with my dad, changed my life | Opinion
Fresno Bee via Yahoo News· 3 days agoMays broke in with the New York Giants in 1951 and fewer than 20 Black men were in major league...
Baseball legend Willie Mays, the 'Say Hey Kid,' dies at 93
USA TODAY Sports via Yahoo Sports· 4 days agoLouis Cardinals game at Birmingham's Rickwood Field, in Mays' hometown and site of his Negro League...
Willie Mays, Entertaining Icon of Baseball, Dies at 93
The Hollywood Reporter via Yahoo Sports· 4 days agoWillie Mays, the incandescent center fielder for the New York and San Francisco Giants whose...
Why Willie Mays, not Babe Ruth, was baseball’s greatest player | CNN
CNN.com· 14 hours agoAmong students of baseball, there has long been widespread belief that Willie Mays was the game’s...
Willie Mays, one of baseball’s all-time greats, dies aged 93
The Telegraph via Yahoo Sports· 4 days agoPark in San Francisco on Willie Mays Plaza, complete with a statue outside the stadium. For millions...
Willie Mays, Major League Baseball’s ‘Say Hey Kid,’ Dies at Age 93
The Wall Street Journal· 4 days agoJackie Robinson had broken MLB’s color line just a year earlier, and though Mays was still attending...
Willie Mays, a baseball giant, dies at age 93
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 4 days ago“I didn’t think I would have a chance, because of segregation. I didn’t think I would ever get out of Birmingham,” he said. Sports He credited Jackie ...
Rickwood Field Road Trip Part 1
Major League Baseball· 2 days agoWhen the Negro Leagues Statistical Review Committee – containing baseball historians and journalists as well as former executives and players – released...
Willie Mays, Baseball’s Electrifying Player of Power and Grace, Is Dead at 93
New York Times· 4 days agoWillie Mays, the spirited center fielder whose brilliance at the plate, in the field and on the...
Opinion: Willie Mays was the best to ever play the game
CNN.com· 3 days agoEditor’s Note: Frederic J. Frommer, a writer and sports and politics historian, is the author of...