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 ...

MLB, and baseball as a whole, lost a true legend of the game on Tuesday with the passing of Willie ... note: Mays, also known as the “Say Hey Kid”, was a major leaguer from 1951 to 1973 ...

SLIDESHOW: Willie Mays -- A Life in Pictures Mays called it a career after 22 seasons with 660 home runs, which was the third ...

Almost half a century ago, on September 1, 1973, a young man named John Sullivan sits with Willie Mae Ford Smith at a card table in his Laclede Town apartment, just south of Grand Avenue. Smith is 69 ...