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 ...

WILLIE MAYS, thought by many to be the greatest all-around player ever, used this bat in a series with the Cardinals at Busch Stadium in June of 1954.

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 not fans at ...

SAN FRANCISCO — It wasn’t quite The Catch. But on this night, one dedicated to honoring the life, the legacy, the brilliance of Willie Mays, it was close enough. With two outs in the seventh inning, ...

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 ...

On July 8, I attended the memorial for Willie Mays at Oracle Park in San Francisco, home of the Giants baseball team. Mays was 93 years old when he died on June 18. Roughly 3,000 ardent fans came to ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...