Michael Mays, the son of Willie Mays, was set to throw out the first pitch Wednesday for game two of the Subway Series — just over a week after his Hall of Fame father died at 93. Prior to the game, ...

Willie Howard Mays was born on May 6, 1931, in Westfield, Alabama, the son of steelworker William Howard “Cat” Mays and Anna Mays, formerly Sattlewhite. His father and grandfather played semi-pro ...

All eyes in American baseball turned to Birmingham, Alabama’s historic Rickwood Field Thursday night, where the stands shook with deafening applause and hoots of pride in honor of one of the best the ...

The baseball world lost a legend Tuesday with the death of Willie Mays. Despite the gravity that the word "legend" carries, that still might not do justice to his greatness. There's a short list in ...

Known as the "Say Hey Kid," Mays' career spanned more than two decades, from the 1950s to 1970s. He spent nearly all of those years with the Giants – first in New York and then in San Francisco. The ...

It came to be known simply as “The Catch,” and is, perhaps, the most recognized defensive play in baseball’s long and storied history, the play that made rising star Willie Mays famous. It was the ...