Then he crashed into the green padded wall. And almost immediately, an excited broadcaster exclaimed, “Say Hey, Willie Mays kid!” That was nine days before Mays died Tuesday at 93, which set ...

Willie Mays, widely considered to be one of the greatest ... "When Vic hit the ball to center field, I never was worried about catching the ball," Mays told MLB Network in 2010.

His work previously appeared at PopCulture.com, Heavy, and TheCelebrityCafe.com. Bettmann Archive Willie Mays — the baseball legend who made history as the first Black team captain in the major ...

“The Say Hey Kid” Willie Howard Mays Jr. (1931–2024) began his career in the Negro Leagues (1947) before joining the Major League’s New York Giants in 1951. Excepting time in military service ...

Willie Mays, arguably the greatest baseball player ... Mays, playing shallow as usual, sprinted with his back to the ball, catching it over his shoulder an estimated 460 feet from the plate.

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 ...

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 ...