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 ...

1970 — San Francisco’s Willie Mays gets career hit number 3,000 off Montreal’s Mike Wegener in the second inning.

“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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The inaugural Willie Mays Open was Friday morning at the historic Rickwood Field, featuring six Historically Black Colleges and Universities ...