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Baseball legend Willie Mays, the 'Say Hey Kid,' dies at 93
USA TODAY Sports via Yahoo Sports· 3 days agoMays, Snider and Mantle became the inspiration for the 1981 song Willie, Mickey And The Duke, more...
MLB: Southwest Virginia native, ex-ETSU slugger Ed Goodson recalls playing alongside Willie Mays...
Bristol Herald Courier· 24 hours agoGrowing up in Ivanhoe, Virginia, Ed Goodson spent hours upon hours swinging a tobacco stick and...
Rickwood Field: If you rebuild it …
Sports Business Journal· 5 days agoBuilt in 1910, Rickwood Field is the oldest existing professional baseball stadium in the United States. It was a central setting for Negro Leagues games...
Willie Mays, Major League Baseball’s ‘Say Hey Kid,’ Dies at Age 93
The Wall Street Journal· 3 days agoIn January 1979, in his first year of eligibility, Mays was elected to the Hall of Fame. Mays...
Nick Scala: Mays ignited baseball passion
The Charleston Gazette· 2 days agoHow did a kid from the New York suburbs pledge his baseball allegiance not to local hero Mickey Mantle of the Yankees, but instead to Mays, the superstar...
How Juan Soto went from a free-swinging kid to drawing 700 walks at age 25
New York Daily News· 21 hours agoGrowing up in the Dominican Republic, Juan Soto swung at everything. “I was a free swinger when I...
Willie Mays, supreme baseball talent among the best to ever play, dies at 93
NBC News via Yahoo Sports· 3 days agoNew York and San Francisco Giants icon Willie Mays, considered by many the greatest all-around...
Willie Mays, baseball's Say Hey Kid, has died at 93
LA Times via AOL· 3 days agoThe Giants, off to a poor start and looking for a boost, called him up and, despite his protest that he wouldn’t be able to hit big league pitching,...
Rickwood 101: Everything to Know Before MLB’s Negro League Tribute Game
Sports Illustrated· 3 days agoIn the last hour of sweltering daylight and the promise of cooler evening air, in a place of...
Willie Mays: Saying a final goodbye to baseball’s ‘Say hey kid’
United Press International via Yahoo Sports· 3 days agoWillie Mays, who died Wednesday at age 93, was not only the greatest baseball player of the last 80...