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From 1955 through 1958, Mays led Willie Mays' All-Stars, a team composed of such stars as Irvin, Thompson, Aaron, Frank Robinson, Junior Gilliam, Brooks Lawrence, Sam Jones, and Joe Black. The team traveled around the southern United States the first two years, attaining crowds of about 5,000 in 1955 but drawing less than 1,000 in 1956, partly ...
Long after “The Catch” and his 660 home runs, and the daring sprints around the bases with his hat falling off, Willie Mays could still command a room like no other. Mays was a frequent ...
Between 1954 and 1966, Mays drove in 100 or more runs 10 times, scored 100 or more 12 times, hit 40 or more homers six times, more than 50 homers twice and led the league in stolen bases four ...
Willie Mays, the "Say Hey Kid" of 1950s and 1960s Giants fame, a home run slugger and center field star for most of his 23-year Major League Baseball career, died Tuesday at 93 after a short ...
“The Willie Mays catch will always be its own thing,” said Posnanski. “Name any other player with 600 home runs whose most famous play is a catch,” said Stark.
Major League is a 1989 American sports comedy film produced by Chris Chesser and Irby Smith, written and directed by David S. Ward, that stars Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheen, Wesley Snipes, James Gammon, Bob Uecker, Rene Russo, Margaret Whitton, Dennis Haysbert, and Corbin Bernsen.
(Willie is his godfather–Bonds’s father, Bobby, played with Mays.) And the 91-year-old Mays is game for the task of explaining his career, his time in the Negro leagues, upward mobility in ...
Rick "Wild Thing" Vaughn has become a media sensation and is more concerned about his public image than his pitching. Home run hitter Pedro Cerrano becomes a Buddhist and adopts a carefree style. Center fielder Willie Mays Hayes has become a Hollywood actor and fancies himself a power hitter since he got injured in his movie.