Mike Trout has been compared to the late Willie Mays since he broke into the league back in 2011. Without playing a game this week, he offered more numerical proof that the two center fielders compare ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- - Willie Mays was on hand as his 92nd birthday was celebrated, and Alex Cobb led the San Francisco Giants to a 4-1 victory on Saturday that stretched the Milwaukee Brewers' losing ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The San Francisco Giants turned their idyllic waterfront park into baseball's biggest birthday bash Friday night as the team celebrated Willie Mays turning 90 years old the day before ...

DALY CITY, Calif. — Rick Barry visited the Bay Area last week and savored a chance to recall some of basketball’s most famous names. The NBA All-Star Game returns to the San Francisco side of the bay ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 visitor to the ...

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 ...

Back in March, I almost bought a couple of tickets for the May 6 Giants-Rockies game at AT&T Park in San Francisco. But we had too much planned for the Mother's Day weekend visiting family in the Bay ...