SLIDESHOW: Willie Mays -- A Life in Pictures Mays called it a career after 22 seasons with 660 home runs, which was the third-highest of all-time when he retired in 1973, and posted a career ...

In 1973, the baseball icon retired with 24 All ... the life and legacy of Mays in the 2022 HBO documentary Say Hey, Willie Mays! The film also explored the racism and controversies the icon ...

Willie Mays, possibly the greatest player in baseball ... Mays nevertheless made the Midsummer Classic every season from 1954 through 1973, or what served as his final season in the majors.

In 1973, Mays signed with the New York Mets ... In 2015 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama. National Portrait Gallery Willie Mays National Museum of American ...

2014 — Texas P Yu Darvish becomes the fastest starting pitcher to reach 500 strikeouts.

He joined Willie Mays and Felipe Alou on an exclusive Giants record list. Ramos, along with Mays and Alou, has tallied an extra-base hit in each of the Giants' first five games. That trio is the ...

Photo: Angus Mordant/Bloomberg News/Saul Loeb/Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images My father, a high school football, basketball and baseball coach, loved the baseball player Willie Mays. He even named ...

1971 — Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants hits a home ... a total of 86 games were lost before the strike was settled. 1973 — Ron Blomberg of the New York Yankees became the first major ...