Agreeing to Mr. Mays’ terms “would have speeded up the process of the book, but I think it also would have sacrificed a level of breadth and depth, and, most critically, credibility and integrity,” Mr ...

When Jackie Robinson broke the color line in baseball in 1947, he became the public face of integrated professional sports. A few years later, Willie Mays built on that achievement by becoming the ...

Editor's note: This article originally posted on the San Francisco Examiner. Click here for more culture reporting at sfexaminer.com Author Jim Hirsch wrote in his bestselling 2010 biography “Willie ...

Marty Kane, now 86 and living in Monterey, will never forget what he witnessed in the eighth inning of Game 1 of the 1954 World Series between the New York Giants and the heavily favored Cleveland ...

The death of baseball legend Willie Mays on June 18 touched many inside and outside the sports world. The Sporting News ranked Mays second only to Babe Ruth among the 100 greatest baseball players of ...