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 ...

National Baseball Hall of Fame inductee, two-time MVP and 24-time All-Star Willie Mays was an outstanding athlete. Born in Alabama, Mays got his start in baseball at 16, playing for the Birmingham ...

The death of baseball legend Willie Mays on June 18 touched many inside and outside the sports world. The Sporting News ranked Mays second only to Babe Ruth among the 100 greatest baseball players of ...

Editor's note: This article originally posted on the San Francisco Examiner. Click here for more culture reporting at sfexaminer.com Author Jim Hirsch wrote in his bestselling 2010 biography “Willie ...

Bruce Bochy knew Willie Mays almost as if they were teammates. When Bochy took over as the manager of the San Francisco Giants before the 2007 season, he took the opportunity to talk to the legendary ...

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, ...

Thursday night’s St. Louis Cardinals and San Francisco Giants MLB game will honor baseball Hall of Famer, Willie Mays as well as honor the Negro Leagues, where Mays began his career in 1948. Mays’ ...

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, ...

It has been an emotional time period for the San Francisco Giants organization following the passing of their icon Willie Mays. Ahead of their Rickwood Field game, the baseball legend announced he ...

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 ...