That's what they say. I understand the sentiment. Willie Mays was mine. Most of the other boys in my Ken-Ton neighborhood were fans of Mickey Mantle. (Buffalo has long been a big New York Yankees ...

One of the few things that kept the Giants hanging on by a thread throughout the tumultuous ’70s was the idea that this is the franchise of Willie Mays. It meant something. It was worth saving.

Even for the worst of redneck racists, it was almost impossible to dislike Willie Mays. Little boys choose heroes, and some of the heroes actually prove worth the admiration. My earliest ...

The city’s land bank now owns the residence in a quiet Fairfield neighborhood. Restoration advocates have long envisioned ...

The first time I met Willie Mays and shook the hand of the greatest ... Negro Leagues and was never paid a fraction of what he was worth by MLB owners had to know, to the bone, all about racism.

DALLAS — The passing of Willie Mays, at 93, on Tuesday brought about ... playing at both Burnett Field in Dallas and LaGrave Field in Fort Worth. Both ballparks were home to minor league teams ...

The baseball world lost a legend Tuesday with the death of Willie Mays. Despite the gravity that ... we do not think WAR is the only stat worth using. It's not. There are a ton of useful stats ...

Read our full coverage of Willie Mays, including our obituary ... time and is made up like the rest of us of about 87 cents’ worth of iron, calcium, antimony and whatever baser metal a human ...

Be Willie Mays. Mays didn’t gamble ... making sure to get their money’s worth out of him. Invariably patrons would bring up “the Catch” — Mays’s game-saving over-the-shoulder grab ...