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 ...
302 batting average, 3,283 hits, 660 home runs, 1,903 runs batted in, and 338 stolen bases. One of the greatest all-around players the sport has ever seen, Mays was inducted into the Baseball Hall of ...
1970 — San Francisco’s Willie Mays gets career hit number 3,000 off Montreal’s Mike Wegener in the second inning.
After Ted Williams passed away, someone asked me if Willie Mays was the ... When a ball was hit into the gap, you knew Mays would score from first base. Regardless of the relay, he had his mind ...
Baseball and Willie Mays will intersect at Rickwood Field again when Miles College hosts its first Willie Mays Open on Feb. 7-9. Joining Miles in the field for the event are the baseball teams ...