For Mays' 91st birthday in 2022, Obama shared a video on Twitter of him chatting with the former baseball player on Air Force One during his first year in office. Willie Mays Is 90: Barack Obama ...

Throughout the season the CBS Sports MLB experts will bring you a weekly Batting Around roundtable breaking down pretty much anything. The latest news, a historical question, thoughts about the ...

Willie Mays, widely considered to be one of the greatest baseball players in the history of the game, has died at 93. "It is with great sadness that we announce that San Francisco Giants Legend ...

1954 — Henry Aaron made his major league debut in left field for the Milwaukee Braves and went 0-for-5 in a 9-8 loss to the Cincinnati Reds. Cincinnati’s Jim Greengrass hit four doubles in his first ...

Willie Mays, who died Wednesday at age 93, was not only the greatest baseball player of the last 80 years, but was also an enormously important figure in American sports, culture and history.

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 ...

One of the greatest all-around players the sport has ever seen, Mays was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1979. In 2015 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack ...

It begins with the man in charge, Buster Posey, whose reign as the president of baseball operations is off to about as fast a ...

The Colorado Rockies beat the Chicago Cubs 8-2 in baseball’s first season opener ... a season and the Rangers beat Seattle 6-4. Cruz joined Willie Mays (1971) and Mark McGwire (1998) as the only ...

loved the baseball player Willie Mays. He even named one of our cats after his favorite athlete. Every August throughout the 1960s, he would pile my sister and me into the car at 4:30 a.m. and ...

For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps." --Quoted in "Willie Mays" by Arnold Hano "Don't get me wrong, I like to hit. But there's nothing like getting ...