Willie Mays

The Washington Post wrote: It’s hard to pick up a paper these days unless you start with Page 1 or the comics without having the name of Willie Mays hit you in the face.

WILLIE MAYS JAMES S. HIRSCH 2010

If you want out of the All-Star Game, you have to call Willie Mays and tell him why.

Absent All-Stars Can Learn From Willie Jason Gay 2011

When Donatelli died on May 24, 1990, the New York Times’s obituary read: “In the 1973 series … Donatelli called Willie Mays of the New York Mets out at the plate, leading to another famous argument.”

WILLIE MAYS JAMES S. HIRSCH 2010

But Tommy hopped on his horse and ran it down, making a Willie Mays–robbing–Vic Wertz over-the-shoulder grab that drew oohs and applause.

Parents Behaving Badly Scott Gummer 2011

His hero is Willie Mays, whose last season, in 1973, was hard to watch.

Walking Away From a Fantasy Jeffrey Zaslow 2011

A Song of Willie Mays (Hyperion), and the new Bun, Onion, Burger (Simon & Schuster).

Peter Mandel: The Boys of Summer: Turning Fifty at Red Sox Fantasy Camp. Peter Mandel 2011

A Song of Willie Mays (Hyperion), and the new Bun, Onion, Burger (Simon & Schuster).

Peter Mandel: The Boys of Summer: Turning Fifty at Red Sox Fantasy Camp. Peter Mandel 2011

He was one of three center-field greats -- including the New York Giants' Willie Mays and the Yankees' Mickey Mantle -- who helped turn the 1950s into New York's golden age of baseball.

Duke Snider dies: Dodgers' Hall of Fame center fielder was 84 2011

A Song of Willie Mays (Hyperion), and the new Bun, Onion, Burger (Simon & Schuster).

Peter Mandel: The Boys of Summer: Turning Fifty at Red Sox Fantasy Camp. Peter Mandel 2011

A Song of Willie Mays (Hyperion), and the new Bun, Onion, Burger (Simon & Schuster).

Peter Mandel: The Boys of Summer: Turning Fifty at Red Sox Fantasy Camp. Peter Mandel 2011