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How Willie Mays, and my first visit to the ballpark with my dad, changed my life | Opinion
Modesto Bee via Yahoo News· 2 days agoAgain, Mays was 40. For a long time, Babe Ruth was the most celebrated player in baseball history,...
Johnson: Willie Mays ‘best of them all,’ says Bob Costas
Birmingham News· 2 days agoLet the phrase go. Or maybe the most fanatic of Giants fans know — maybe those who witnessed his...
Willie Mays anecdotes, Negro Leagues' legacy: Rickwood Field roundtable
Fox Sports· 1 day agoMajor League Baseball is technically making its debut at Alabama's Rickwood Field...to Willie Mays...
America's oldest ballpark: MLB game at Rickwood Field honors history of Black baseball
USA TODAY Sports via Yahoo Sports· 3 days agoIt’s a staggering number: 182. ...the opposing teams in the minors, the barnstorming major leaguers...
One catch, one stat: Why Willie Mays' greatness is so easy to analyze
USA TODAY Sports via Yahoo Sports· 3 days agoNor are we here to steal anyone’s joy. You can have your Babe Ruth, dominating the pre-integration...
Rickwood 101: Everything to Know Before MLB’s Negro League Tribute Game
Sports Illustrated· 2 days agoIn the last hour of sweltering daylight and the promise of cooler evening air, in a place of...
From the archives: San Diego was site of baseball great Willie Mays’ milestone home run
U-T San Diego· 3 days agoOn Sept. 22, 1969, Mays — who died Tuesday at age 93 — joined Babe Ruth as the only other player in baseball history to reach the mark ...
The legacy of Willie Mays through his iconic baseball cards and career numbers
Washington Post· 3 days agoA year-by-year look at Mays’s legendary career, as told by his Topps baseball card for each season.
Mark Kiszla: Why these wimpy, boring Rockies hitters are an insult to the Blake Street Bombers
Colorado Springs Gazette· 1 day agoFrom now on, rather than exchanging lineup cards at home plate, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts should...
Willie Mays was as good — and as cool — as anyone who ever played
Anchorage Daily News· 2 days agoThe first time I met Willie Mays and shook the hand of the greatest baseball player I’ve ever seen,...