Willie Mays remains the ideal baseball player. There wasn't a thing on the diamond he couldn't do. The Giants legend may soon ...

Sewell recognized Juneteenth and numerous celebrations across Alabama's 7th District. She also acknowledged Major League Baseball's return to Birmingham.

With its pitch clocks and ghost runners, baseball has changed noticeably in the 75 years since Nat Bates and Willie Reed played for the barnstorming Indian Head Rockets.

Arizona Diamondbacks' Corbin Carroll joins Willie Mays as one of last two players to have multiple multi-homer games and ...

Mays retired with 660 homers, then third all-time, now sixth He is perhaps best known for his over-the-head basket catch in the 1954 World Series The Giants retired his No. 24 in 1972, and a ...

The great Willie Mays, at the age of 93, passed away. “Isn’t it ironic?’’ said Dusty Baker, the managing great and longtime friend of Mays, “that while the eyes of the entire baseball ...

“Shut up!” insisted Willie Mays, the baseball legend who died last Tuesday at age 93. “Just shut up!” It was the summer of 1964, and Mays had convened all of the Black and Latino players ...

Read our full coverage of Willie Mays, including our obituary, as well as how Mays was instrumental in California’s fight against housing discrimination. The first thing to establish about ...

Among students of baseball, there has long been widespread belief that Willie Mays was the game’s greatest all-around player. That might come as a surprise to those who are casual fans ...

Willie Mays, a perennial all-star center fielder for the New York and San Francisco Giants in the 1950s and ’60s whose powerful bat, superb athletic grace and crafty baseball acumen earned him a ...

San Francisco Giant center fielder Willie Mays swings his bat during spring training in Phoenix, Arizona, on February 24, 1961. Willie Mays, the baseball superstar who played for 22 years with the ...

Willie Mays opened his big-league career with a confidence-rattling 0-for-12 stretch before finally blasting a home run off Warren Spahn early in 1951. “I’ll never forgive myself,’’ Spahn ...