Agreeing to Mr. Mays’ terms “would have speeded up the process of the book, but I think it also would have sacrificed a level of breadth and depth, and, most critically, credibility and integrity,” Mr ...

Willie Mays, whose prodigious power, blinding speed and eye-popping defense thrilled fans coast to coast during baseball's golden era, died Tuesday, the San Francisco Giants announced. He was 93. "It ...

Willie Mays existed, and the world was better because of it. It’s impossible to overstate the cultural legacy of Mays, his footprint on American life. Books have been written, and will continue to be ...

This is an opinion column. There was little argument before Tuesday that Willie Mays was the greatest living player in baseball history. And after Mays’ death just two days before the MLB at Rickwood ...

“Willie always said there were three groups of people he trusted: baseball players, children and household pets,” Hirsch said. Hirsch wrote in his Mays biography that the slugger was accustomed to ...

Charles Einstein, 80, a writer best known for his books on baseball, including a well-regarded memoir on Willie Mays, died March 7 at St. Anthony Memorial Hospital in Michigan City, Ind. The cause of ...

While he knew that he had earned his place as one of America’s most consequential athletes, his deep mistrust of others made him uneasy about his standing in the pantheon. In October 2016, I called ...

Howard Russell has tended yards in this quiet Fairfield neighborhood for about a quarter century, so he knows an explorer when he sees one. He stops the mower he’s pushing on this hellish-hot morning, ...

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, ...

The record deal came down to a single demand, a challenge from Marvin Holtzman, the A&R director at Epic Records, to Ted Worner, a New York press agent with an idea for a novelty song. “We’ll do it if ...