1962 . Actual winner: Maury Wills. Mays' finish: Second. In my book, one of the worst MVP votes ever. The voters were infatuated with Wills breaking the single-season stolen base record with 104 ...

Maury Wills, who worked hard to ... earned two Gold Gloves for his fielding and beat out Willie Mays for the league’s most-valuable-player award in 1962, ...

Not only did Wills break Ty Cobb’s stolen-base record and win MVP, but he also beat out the great Willie Mays, who had an incredible season of his own, batting .304 with 49 home runs and 141 ...

Willie Mays passed away peacefully on Tuesday afternoon, the Giants announced. ... He was the runner-up to Maury Wills during the Giants’ pennant-winning ’62 campaign.

Willie Mays, the baseball superstar who played for 22 years with the Giants and Mets, died on June 18, 2024. ... Dodger Maury Wills had a bunt single in the first inning.

Mays’ focus on baseball was no less necessary than the ones needed by Larry Doby, Hank Aaron, Maury Wills, and others. If one is ever in the company of Dusty Baker, ask Dusty what it was like to ...

Joe Morgan, Hank Aaron, Frank Robinson and Maury Wills were among the many Black players who spoke up in defense of Mays, citing his behind-the-scenes efforts to help and support them.

Willie Mays, the “Say Hey Kid ... Jackie Robinson, whom Mays admired and respected, chastised Mays as well as Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop Maury Wills for seemingly not doing enough to speak ...

That ′65 All-Star Game — Mays, Henry Aaron, Willie Stargell, Dick Allen, Ernie Banks and Maury Wills were among eight NL starters; Frank Robinson and Billy Williams were backups; and Bob ...

Baseball introduced interleague play in 1997, and it took until 2003 for the Twins to take on the San Francisco Giants. The series was played at the start of June in what was then named Pac Bell ...