SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — 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 ...
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 ...
On a night devoted to honoring the late Willie Mays, one San Francisco Giants player found the perfect way to make an in-game tribute to the memory of Mays during the Giants' 5-4 win over the Chicago ...
The death of Willie Mays brings back treasured memories of an 11-year-old boy who was among the 52,751 fans in the Polo Grounds who witnessed Mays’ amazing catch. A Cleveland fan, he was awakened at 5 ...
Just two weeks ago, in the 10th inning of a College World Series regional game between Clemson and Florida, with two outs and Gators on first and second, Florida's Ashton Wilson smacked a pitch high ...
NEW YORK — 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 ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Willie Mays raced at ...
It was a play that is as famous as any in the grand history of baseball and was memorialized at the time by the Hall of Fame broadcaster Jack Brickhouse, who said: “Willie Mays just brought this crowd ...