With two on and none out in the top of the eighth inning of the opening game of the 1954 World Series, left-handed reliever Don Liddle took the mound for New York Giants starter Sal Maglie to face ...

The center fielder, who died at 93, was the last surviving star who began his career in Black baseball. San Francisco Giant center fielder Willie Mays swings his bat during spring training in Phoenix, ...

Among students of baseball, there has long been widespread belief that Willie Mays was the game’s greatest all-around player. That might come as a surprise to those who are casual fans, or not fans at ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Willie Mays raced at top speed toward the center-field wall at the spacious Polo Grounds and somehow managed to track down and corral a fast-traveling ball with an over-the-shoulder ...