For much of the 1960s, Mays was baseball’s highest-paid player; in 1970, his salary was $135,000, or about $1.1 million today ...

In Rickey Henderson, Pete Rose, Willie Mays and Fernando Valenzuela the sport of baseball lost four of its most electric ...

Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle, were clearly two of the best to ever play baseball, but Willie Mays might have topped them ...

Dozens of famous people died in 2024, but these 20, ranging from pols to pilots to (ball)players, left particularly admirable ...

Mays died on Tuesday, June 18, 2024. Will fearless joy, Mays changed America. May’s team, the San Francisco Giants, played the St. Louis Cardinals, on Thursday, June 20, at Rickwood Field in ...

Remembering some of the artists, innovators and thinkers we lost in the past year.

Each year it is good to reflect back on the highs and lows of the year, and we did so with some of the top sports headlines ...

Willie Mays. Pete Rose. Fernando Valenzuela. Carl Erskine. And last week, Rickey Henderson. The sports world lost so many ...