“The Say Hey Kid ... 1965) Mays led the Giants to victory in the 1954 World Series, where in game one, he famously caught a ball, hit by Cleveland Indian Vic Wertz, over his shoulder. Now simply ...

Quoted in "Willie Mays" by Arnold Hano ... running after a ball and throwing somebody out trying to take that extra base. That's real fun." "When you catch a ball high, head high or higher ...

Mays was a longtime New York/San Francisco Giant and briefly a New York Met, and a first-ballot Hall of Fame inductee in 1979. The 'Say Hey Kid ... reached out to catch the ball with his back ...

And just before he got to the wall, the ball descended over his shoulder ... And almost immediately, an excited broadcaster exclaimed, “Say Hey, Willie Mays kid!” That was nine days before ...

The baseball world has saluted the achievements of Willie ... Mays embodied an attitude of "just keep playing and having fun", one former player told the BBC. Nicknamed the “Say Hey Kid ...

After Ted Williams passed away, someone asked me if Willie ... chasing a ball in the outfield, making a basket catch, stealing a base or standing and swinging in the batter's box. Mays always ...

Say Hey, Willie Mays. follows Mays' life both on and off the field over five decades as he navigated the American sports landscape and the country's ever-evolving cultural backdrop, all while ...

Willie Mays, arguably the greatest baseball player of all time, died Tuesday at the age of 93. Mays had called Atherton home for the last four decades of his life. Nicknamed the “Say Hey Kid ...

He knew as he ran under the ball ... the catch dozens of times and continue to marvel at it. The catch is tangible evidence of Willie Mays’s baseball brilliance. I think it fair to say that ...