SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Willie Mays raced at top speed toward the center-field wall at the spacious Polo Grounds and somehow managed to track down and corral a fast-traveling ball with an ...

Marty Kane, now 86 and living in Monterey, will never forget what he witnessed in the eighth inning of Game 1 of the 1954 World Series between the New York Giants and the heavily favored Cleveland ...

Mays, who played for the Giants in New York and then San Francisco and a brief stint with the New York Mets at the end of his career, entered the MLB after a brief stint with the Birmingham Black ...

Senior political columnist Tim Carney was out of his league when he wrote his “Celebrating the glorious glove of Willie Mays” opinion. While being mostly correct, Carney twice identified Vic Wertz as ...

Willie Mays, the "Say Hey Kid" of 1950s and 1960s Giants fame, a home run slugger and center field star for most of his 23-year Major League Baseball career, died Tuesday at 93 after a short illness, ...

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FILE - New York Giants' Willie Mays makes a catch of a ball hit by Cleveland Indians' Vic Wertz in Game 1 of the 1954 baseball World Series in New York's Polo Grounds on Sept. 29, 1954. Mays, the ...

Wooden baseball bat inscribed ADIRONDACK / WILLIE MAYS / PERSONAL MODEL. "The Say Hey Kid" Willie Howard Mays Jr. (1931-2024) began his career in the Negro Leagues (1947) before joining the Major ...

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