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Column: Baseball legend Willie Mays instrumental in California fight against housing discrimination
Baseball great Willie Mays never wanted to be an activist, but the racism he encountered after moving to San Francisco helped motivate the city and state governments to outlaw housing discrimination.
11 hours ago
- CNN Sports via Yahoo
Why Willie Mays, not Babe Ruth, was baseball’s greatest player
“The brilliance of Mays day-to-day in the ’50s and ‘60s is practically lost,” said Steve Hirdt, a longtime baseball statistician and historian and senior director of operations and research ...
4 hours ago