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Johnson: Willie Mays ‘best of them all,’ says Bob Costas
Birmingham News· 3 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· 2 days agoMajor League Baseball is technically making its debut at Alabama's Rickwood Field...to Willie Mays...
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...
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.
From the archives: San Diego was site of baseball great Willie Mays’ milestone home run
U-T San Diego· 4 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 ...
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...
Legacies of Josh Gibson, Negro Leagues players go beyond statistical recognition
AOL· 3 days agoAlthough the Negro Leagues star and his family received a ton of attention following Major League ...
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,...
Willie Mays, San Francisco Giants’ electrifying ‘Say Hey Kid,’ has died at 93
Dallas Morning News· 4 days agoWillie Mays, the electrifying “Say Hey Kid” whose singular combination of talent, drive and...
Willie Mays was as good — and as cool — as anyone who ever played
Anchorage Daily News· 3 days agoThe first time I met Willie Mays and shook the hand of the greatest baseball player I’ve ever seen,...