The value of pitching to contact was on full display Tuesday night at Daikin Park, where Logan Webb was on his game in the ...

Willie Mays, arguably the greatest baseball player of all time ... but were reluctant to sign Black players. They passed on Mays, even though Jackie Robinson already had broken the sport ...

One of the most successful players in Major League Baseball was born in Jefferson County. Willie Mays, "The Say Hey Kid ... at Rickwood Field in 1948. Sign up for our Newsletters Join us on ...

One of the greatest all-around players the sport has ever seen, Mays was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1979. In 2015 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack ...

Video above: Fans stand at Rickwood Field to honor Willie Mays The "Say Hey Kid" announced he would not be able to come to the Magic City just days before he died at the age of 93. Sign up for our ...

For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps." --Quoted in "Willie Mays" by Arnold Hano "Don't get me wrong, I like to hit. But there's nothing like getting ...

loved the baseball player Willie Mays. He even named one of our cats after his favorite athlete. Every August throughout the 1960s, he would pile my sister and me into the car at 4:30 a.m. and ...

Willie Mays's ability to inspire went far beyond the baseball field. How Graphic Design Could Help Resurrect A Declining Resort Town [Slideshow] A beautiful visual identity concept for Rhyl ...

Willie Mays, who died Wednesday at age 93, was not only the greatest baseball player of the last 80 years, but was also an enormously important figure in American sports, culture and history.