Born May 6, 1931 in Westfield, Alabama to Ann and Willie Howard Mays Sr., Mays played baseball with his father on an industrial-league team in Birmingham, according to MLB. By 15, he was already ...

Eboo Patel is founder and president of Interfaith America, a Chicago-based organization. His most recent book is “We Need To ...

Be Willie Mays. Mays didn’t gamble ... When James Earl Jones was a small child, he stopped talking. He was born in Arkabutla, Miss., and learned to love its gullies and rises and deep ravines ...

Bob Veale, a Birmingham native who pitched for the Pittsburgh Pirates and Boston Red Sox in the 1960s and 1970s, is shown outside Rickwood Field in Birmingham in 2003. Veale died this week at age 89. ...

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 baseball career that began with great fanfare in ...

West's silhouette is the basis of the NBA logo. Willie Mays - Born: May 6, 1931 - Died: June 18, 2024 Baseball legend Willie Mays, who was known as the "Say Hey Kid," was regarded as one of the ...

The Mexican-born Valenzuela is the only player to earn ... Donald Sutherland died on June 20, at the age of 88. Willie Mays, one of the greatest baseball players of all time, began his career ...

MLB's reporters chronicled the 2024 baseball season from start to finish. But a picture is worth 1,000 words -- and they snapped plenty of those, too. From Spring Training through the World Series, on ...

Harris, a former San Francisco prosecutor, California attorney general and U.S. senator, would have been only the second president born in California ... Giants player Willie Mays at Oracle ...

Twelve of our writers and editors reveal their Hall of Fame ballots and discuss some of the thinking behind their votes.