Baseball great Willie Mays died peacefully Tuesday surrounded by his family in the Bay Area. Mays was beloved by fans for his dazzling play, his exuberant smile and for giving to the game’s next ...

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 ...

Willie Mays didn’t creep up on the baseball world. He famously started his career 0-for-12 and 1-for-26, with a home run off Warren Spahn in between, and manager Leo Durocher had to console an ...

WHEN THE CUBS OPENED a four-game series at San Francisco Monday night, all of the Giants wore No. 24. The gesture was a fitting tribute to Willie Mays, who died at age 93 last week. There was a time ...

On Tuesday night, baseball great Willie Howard Mays III died at the age of 93 at an assisted care facility in Northern California. Mays was unquestionably among the greatest world athletes of the 20th ...

Two days after losing one of its most illustrious stars, Major League Baseball will honor the Say Hey Kid at the oldest professional ballpark in America, where a teenaged Willie Mays once roamed 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 ...

CHICAGO — Willie Mays was in the hearts and minds of every member of the Giants Wednesday at Wrigley Field. Literally. A day after his death at 93 years old, a commemorative patch was steam-pressed ...

All eyes in American baseball turned to Birmingham, Alabama’s historic Rickwood Field Thursday night, where the stands shook with deafening applause and hoots of pride in honor of one of the best the ...