His first major league hit was a home run off me--and I'll never forgive myself. We might have gotten rid of Willie forever if I'd only struck him out." --By Warren Spahn (ed. note: Mays was 0-for ...

The first, Jackie Robinson ... me to love baseball and for loving me enough to stay for that moment. Willie Mays hit a home run over the left-field fence to end it. We saw 21 innings of baseball ...

“The Say Hey Kid” Willie Howard Mays Jr. (1931 ... League Most Valuable Player (1954, 1965) Mays led the Giants to victory in the 1954 World Series, where in game one, he famously caught a ball, hit ...

He hit his first home run against fellow Hall of Famer ... “They invented the All-Star Game for Willie Mays.” Among his All-Star records were most runs (20), hits (23), extra-base hits ...

The Golden Bears and five other HBCU baseball teams will take the diamond in a three-day event at Birmingham’s historic ...

Willie Mays, arguably the greatest baseball ... runners on when Cleveland Indians’ slugger Vic Wertz hit a long drive that looked at first like a home run to break the tie.

Pierzynski claimed that the slugger deliberately timed breaking Willie Mays' home run record at home ... he goes, 'I will not hit a home run until we get back to San Francisco.

Who knows why Willie Mays Aikens started ... He didn't hear a word. He is the first -- and only -- player to hit two home runs in multiple games in the same World Series. Today, nearly 30 years ...

The baseball world has saluted the achievements of Willie Mays, widely considered ... the MLB added 10 more hits to Mays's career record earlier this month, after deciding to incorporate ...

Maris, who had been traded to the Yankees by Kansas City after the 1958 season, hit his 61st ... crazy game in the first place. The greatest player of all time is Willie Mays.” ...