Agreeing to Mr. Mays’ terms “would have speeded up the process of the book, but I think it also would have sacrificed a level of breadth and depth, and, most critically, credibility and integrity,” Mr ...

National Baseball Hall of Fame inductee, two-time MVP and 24-time All-Star Willie Mays was an outstanding athlete. Born in Alabama, Mays got his start in baseball at 16, playing for the Birmingham ...

The death of baseball legend Willie Mays on June 18 touched many inside and outside the sports world. The Sporting News ranked Mays second only to Babe Ruth among the 100 greatest baseball players of ...

“Willie always said there were three groups of people he trusted: baseball players, children and household pets,” Hirsch said. Hirsch wrote in his Mays biography that the slugger was accustomed to ...

Michael Mays, the son of Willie Mays, was set to throw out the first pitch Wednesday for game two of the Subway Series — just over a week after his Hall of Fame father died at 93. Prior to the game, ...

Howard Russell has tended yards in this quiet Fairfield neighborhood for about a quarter century, so he knows an explorer when he sees one. He stops the mower he’s pushing on this hellish-hot morning, ...

This is an opinion column. It was a delicate step, a tentative step. A step back in time. A step into his father’s childhood home. For the first time since he was a child. Micheal Mays had already ...

Thursday night’s St. Louis Cardinals and San Francisco Giants MLB game will honor baseball Hall of Famer, Willie Mays as well as honor the Negro Leagues, where Mays began his career in 1948. Mays’ ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Willie Mays received final military honors for his time served in the U.S. Army during a special presentation of an American flag to son Michael on Monday, when taps was sounded at a ...

The record deal came down to a single demand, a challenge from Marvin Holtzman, the A&R director at Epic Records, to Ted Worner, a New York press agent with an idea for a novelty song. “We’ll do it if ...