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- Greason, who served as a mentor to teenaged Mays, told Fox Sports reporter Ken Rosenthal that Negro League players took to the field despite racism and segregation. “We didn’t allow segregation to stop us from playing, from using our talents and gifts for what we were there for.
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4 days ago · Three days after the legendary Willie Mays died at 93, ... “We didn’t allow segregation to stop us from playing, from using our talents and gifts for what we were there for. It was a ...
4 days ago · Baseball great Willie Mays never ... virtually all of California — until laws were passed in the 1960s to stop such discrimination. ... What I remember most about him was his playing with ...
Aug 17, 2021 · He was born into the teeth of the Great Depression, his playing career spanning from the era of segregation to the doorstep of free agency. Once barred from Major League Baseball because of the...
- Dave Sheinin
Willie Mays played on Saturday, hitting a single and a double with four RBIs against the Cubans, unaware that he was playing his last Negro League game as his future was being negotiated while he was on the field.
6 days ago · Willie Mays’s death added poignancy to M.L.B.’s celebration of the Negro Leagues at Rickwood Field, the nation’s oldest professional ballpark, where Mays got his start as a professional. Image
6 days ago · Willie Mays, the electrifying “Say Hey Kid” whose singular combination of talent, drive and exuberance made him one of baseball’s greatest and most beloved players, has died. He was 93.
Glaucoma forced Mays to stop driving a car and playing golf after 2005. In 2018, blind sportswriter Ed Lucas wrote that Mays had told him a "few years ago" that he had actually gone blind.
