Agreeing to Mr. Mays’ terms “would have speeded up the process of the book, but I think it also would have sacrificed a level of breadth and depth, and, most critically, credibility and integrity,” Mr ...

Willie Mays, whose prodigious power, blinding speed and eye-popping defense thrilled fans coast to coast during baseball's golden era, died Tuesday, the San Francisco Giants announced. He was 93. "It ...

Willie Mays existed, and the world was better because of it. It’s impossible to overstate the cultural legacy of Mays, his footprint on American life. Books have been written, and will continue to be ...

The death of baseball legend Willie Mays on June 18 touched many inside and outside the sports world. The Sporting News ranked Mays second only to Babe Ruth among the 100 greatest baseball players of ...

Willie Mays, the electrifying “Say Hey Kid” whose singular combination of talent, drive and exuberance made him one of baseball’s greatest and most beloved players, has died. He was 93. Mays' family ...

On an October night in 1918, one month after Babe Ruth led the Boston Red Sox to a World Series victory, a successful New York stockbroker named Charles Stoneham came home with some unusual news for ...

Editor's note: This article originally posted on the San Francisco Examiner. Click here for more culture reporting at sfexaminer.com Author Jim Hirsch wrote in his bestselling 2010 biography “Willie ...

While he knew that he had earned his place as one of America’s most consequential athletes, his deep mistrust of others made him uneasy about his standing in the pantheon. In October 2016, I called ...

I was with my family when I heard Willie Mays died at 93. One of my kids asked: “Who is Willie Mays?” The person who posed the question is 20 and was born 30 years after Mays retired from a celebrated ...

Howard Russell has tended yards in this quiet Fairfield neighborhood for about a quarter century, so he knows an explorer when he sees one. He stops the mower he’s pushing on this hellish-hot morning, ...

The record deal came down to a single demand, a challenge from Marvin Holtzman, the A&R director at Epic Records, to Ted Worner, a New York press agent with an idea for a novelty song. “We’ll do it if ...