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Birmingham, former MLB players heartbroken over death of native son Willie Mays
USA TODAY Sports via Yahoo Sports· 4 days agoHe loved kids. You saw him play stickball back in the old days. He was just a fun person to be...
Woody Paige: The 'Say Hey Kid' inspired many ... even a kid who'd become a sportswriter
Colorado Springs Gazette· 22 hours agoWillie Mays, the “Say Hey Kid” who became “The Greatest Living Player,” died Tuesday. Seventy years...
Willie Mays career timeline
Major League Baseball· 6 days agoDecades after his final game, Willie Mays stands among the greatest athletes and ambassadors baseball has ever seen. Few players, if any, have looked...
660 home runs, 12 Gold Gloves and ... eight MVPs?! How modern analytics would have added to Willie...
ESPN· 4 days agoMaybe the greatest baseball player of all time is Babe Ruth. Proponents of a more antiquated version...
Gateway - The Root
The Root· 5 days agoAfter that, we as a society kind of fast-forward past what other Black players endured in MLB to improve racial equality for baseball players in the future. Yes, we acknowledge some of the Black ...
M.L.B. Comes to Willie Mays’s Hometown on a Mission of Love for the Game
New York Times· 3 days agoBaseball hopes a celebration of its past in the home of one of its legends will attract more African...
Remembering Willie Mays, the last of the Black golden-age legends
NBC Sports BayArea via Yahoo Sports· 5 days agoWhen Frank Robinson, Hall of Fame slugger and Major League Baseball’s first Black manager, died in...
Now 99, the oldest living Negro leaguer ‘never thought they would recognize me’
Washington Post· 3 days agoGreason roomed with another rookie, a 17-year-old high school kid nearly seven years his junior. Willie Mays was bubbling with talent and knew how good he was but never bragged. Greason recalls ...
'Say hey,' RVA. The day Willie Mays played in Richmond.
Richmond Times-Dispatch· 4 days agoWillie Mays obviously didn’t allow an unproductive afternoon in Richmond to carry over into the 1955...
This Date in Baseball-Week Ahead
Associated Press· 3 days ago1934 — Pitcher John Broaca tied a major league record by striking out five consecutive times but pitched the Yankees to an 11-2 victory over the Chicago...
