KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Willie Mays Aikens, who went from World Series star to federal prison inmate, has returned to baseball. The 56-year-old Aikens was hired Tuesday as a minor league coach by the ...

And because of all the amazing grace within all this, through his tears former Royals star Willie Mays Aikens got back his 1980 American League championship ring on Christmas Eve 2014. Incredible ...

The Royals hired a former player as a minor league coach yesterday. No biggie. Happens every day. Except this minor league coach is Willie Mays Aikens, who spent nearly 14 years in federal prison for ...

A film tells the true story of Willie Aikens, a World Series star for the Kansas City Royals whose life was derailed by drugs — and prison — before he pieced it back together.

SURPRISE, Ariz. — The gates of the condo complex open, and Willie Mays Aikens trudges out. He carries a Kansas City Royals gym bag in his right hand, a hint of a limp in his gait, and sadness in ...

Tucked away in the sea of blue clad fans was former Royals’ first basemen Willie Mays Aikens. As fans cheered throughout the game, Aikens sat quietly ...

Willie Mays Aikens struck out more than 400 times in the majors. Big is how he lived life. “As a baseball player, the highest of highs was when I hit those multiple homer games in the World Series.

Willie Mays Aikens has reached some of the highest peaks and plummeted to the lowest valleys in his life.. Aikens played in the 1980 World Series with the Royals and hit four home runs. But in ...

Willie Aiken, Former Royals first baseman “What those people did paved the way for a person like myself as a Black man,” said Aikens. “Without the history of the Negro league who’s to say ...

The 56-year-old Aikens was hired Tuesday as a minor league coach by the Kansas City Royals and will work out of their complex in Surprise, Ariz. Aikens hit four home runs for the Royals in their ...

Fans got a chance to come out to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum on Saturday to meet two Kansas City legends, former Chiefs wide receiver Danan Hughes and former Royals first baseman Willie Aikens.