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Willie Mays Was Baseball’s Last Mythic Hero
The Nation· 3 days agoWillie Mays, the baseball superstar who played for 22 years with the Giants and Mets, died on June 18, 2024. With his death, the era of the living,...
This Texas-related Mickey Mantle souvenir is selling at auction for over $10,000. Here’s how fans...
Fort Worth Star-Telegram· 4 days agoPopular auction house Leland is holding a Summer Classic Auction and has items up for auction from a specialty LeBron James card to a personal item of MLB legend Mickey Mantle.
Mays made big hits with readers
Newsday· 10 hours agoThere’s a reason why this graceful thing of beauty, the basket catch, has never been consistently emulated by another player. My first date, on Aug. 28,...
Willie Mays, Major League Baseball’s ‘Say Hey Kid,’ Dies at Age 93
The Wall Street Journal· 6 days agoIn January 1979, in his first year of eligibility, Mays was elected to the Hall of Fame. Mays...
Willie Mays, baseball's Say Hey Kid, has died at 93
LA Times via AOL· 6 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,...
660 home runs, 12 Gold Gloves and ... eight MVPs?! How modern analytics would have added to Willie...
ESPN· 6 days agoMaybe the greatest baseball player of all time is Babe Ruth. Proponents of a more antiquated version...
So Long, No. 24. Baseball Great Willie Mays Dies at Age 93
Biography via Yahoo Sports· 5 days agoWillie Mays in one of the best baseball players in history who was part of the Giants and the New...
OPINION | WALLY HALL: Little Rock visit displays Mays’ generosity | Northwest Arkansas...
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette· 5 days agoIt came in late October 1989, a phone call from an acquaintance who needed a favor. Willie Mays was...
Willie Mays: A Grateful Nation Says Goodbye | RealClearPolitics
RealClearPolitics· 2 days agoOn an October night in 1918, one month after Babe Ruth led the Boston Red Sox to a World Series...
Sports world reacts to Willie Mays' death on social media
The Bergen Record via Yahoo Sports· 6 days agoMantle had been his guy but he told me to take a picture with "The greatest player there has ever been." My dad never wavered in that belief. RIP to the greatest player there has ever been. ...
