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, or not fans at ...

The center fielder, who died at 93, was the last surviving star who began his career in Black baseball. San Francisco Giant center fielder Willie Mays swings his bat during spring training in Phoenix, ...

The legacy of baseball legend Willie Mays is being remembered after his death earlier this month. Goldin Auctions in New Jersey has stepped up to the plate with a special auction featuring several of ...

But for my money, Hall of Famer Willie Mays, who died Tuesday at the age of 93, is the clear choice, for his superhuman combination of speed and power, his incredible defense, his hitting prowess — ...

Willie Mays was one of the great baseball players in history. The Alabama native began his professional baseball career in the Negro Leagues before joining the New York Giants in 1951. Celebrated for ...

Willie Mays was a giant in every sense of the word. Of course, he was a beloved outfielder with the San Francisco Giants, but what he did on the field made him a giant in the history of baseball. On ...

Long after "The Catch" and his 660 home runs, and the daring sprints around the bases with his hat falling off, Willie Mays could still command a room like no other. Mays was a frequent visitor to the ...

The mortuary temple of Amenhotep III, the ninth pharaoh of Egypt’s 18th dynasty, was the largest of its kind. At its gates, on the West Bank of the Nile River, stood two gigantic statues of the ...

Albany, N.Y. — The baseball world lost a legend Tuesday night. San Francisco Giants and New York Mets great Willie Mays passed away at the age of 93. Mays, a Major League Baseball Hall of Famer, made ...

I was with my family when I heard Willie Mays died at 93. One of my kids asked: “Who is Willie Mays?” The person who posed the question is 20 and was born 30 years after Mays retired from a celebrated ...

Sign up for JD Crowe’s newsletter: Enter your email to subscribe to JD’s weekly newsletter, Crowe Jam. Willie Mays has been promoted to a seat high above Rickwood ...

A stream of people visited the Willie Mays statue outside Oracle Park in San Francisco Wednesday to pay their respects to the baseball legend a day after his death. People left flowers, snapped ...