Willie Mays didn’t creep up on the baseball world. He famously started his career 0-for-12 and 1-for-26, with a home run off Warren Spahn in between, and manager Leo Durocher had to console an ...

The following Jim Murray column was first published by the Los Angeles Times on May 23, 1962. Read our full coverage of Willie Mays, including our obituary, as well as how Mays was instrumental in ...

On an October night in 1918, one month after Babe Ruth led the Boston Red Sox to a World Series victory, a successful New York stockbroker named Charles Stoneham came home with some unusual news for ...

The best way to describe Willie Mays could be to use a line from the late great sportswriter Jim Murray. “The first thing to establish about Willie Mays, is that there really is one.” The long epic ...

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 ...

On July 8, I attended the memorial for Willie Mays at Oracle Park in San Francisco, home of the Giants baseball team. Mays was 93 years old when he died on June 18. Roughly 3,000 ardent fans came to ...

In the 1962 Yankees-Giants World Series, the Yankees’ Clete Boyer hit a line drive to right-center. “As the ball left the bat, I said to myself two things. The first thing I said was ‘Hello double!’ ...

1954: The Year Willie Mays and the First Generation of Black Superstars Changed Major League Baseball Forever, by Bill Madden (Da Capo Press) By WILL LESTER The Associated Press As the pennant races ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — Willie Mays, the ...