Midway through director Nelson George’s new HBO documentary, Say Hey, Willie Mays, the film explores Mays’s relationship with Jackie Robinson. "Willie’s personable and has great talent, but ...

The post Willie Mays’s Humility Was Key to His Genius appeared first on Front Office Sports. ... “No question about what Jackie Robinson started,” Mays said, in deference to his hero, and mine.

Willie Mays Documentary Goes Beyond the Legend, ... As the film notes, the horrific treatment Jackie Robinson received after breaking the MLB's color barrier has been well-documented, ...

Mays broke in with the New York Giants in 1951 and fewer than 20 Black men were in major league baseball. The first, Jackie Robinson, is remembered for confronting mid-20th century racism in its ...

In fact, in Jackie Robinson's book, his 1964 book, "Baseball Has Done It, he criticizes Mays for not using that outsized celebrity for — to force people to take him as a whole, that, if you're ...

Ruth’s reputation has survived the passage of time, modern analytics, and the racial reckoning begun by Jackie Robinson and the great stars of Willie Mays’ generation. But other perceptions ...

Willie Mays, the "Say Hey Kid" of 1950s and 1960s Giants fame, a home run slugger and center field star for most of his 23-year Major League Baseball career, died Tuesday at 93 after a short ...

Willie Mays, the legendary baseball player, died on Tuesday, June 18. The San Francisco Giants star was 93. ... If it hadn't been for folks like you and Jackie [Robinson], ...

Willie Mays, who died Wednesday at age 93, was not only the greatest baseball player of the last 80 years, ... "If it hadn't been for folks like you and Jackie [Robinson], ...

Jackie Robinson was the first,” Dyson said. ... But at the end of the day, he’s Jackie Robinson. I’m waiting for Willie Mays to come behind him because Willie has a hell of a thing. ...

The only baseball player before Jackie Robinson and Willie Mays who played with that almost brutal abandon we call the black style was Enos Slaughter of the Cardinals, a native of Roxboro, North ...

Jackie Robinson was the first,” Dyson said. ... But at the end of the day, he’s Jackie Robinson. I’m waiting for Willie Mays to come behind him because Willie has a hell of a thing. ...