Willie Mays' Death Is Not Only A Loss For Baseball, But For All Of America

(Original Caption) New York Giant's centerfielder Willie Mays waves to the crowd from the dugout after he arrived for Spring training at Phoenix, as shown here. Willie flew from his Army camp in Virginia, released after serving almost two years in the Army. | Source: Bettmann / Getty


In 1959, when Soviet Premier Nikita Khruschev visited San Francisco and members of the International Longshoreman's Union greeted him with cheers, newspaperman Frank Coniff quipped: "This is the damndest city.... Read more


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