Willie Mays and Baseball History
Willie Mays was a link to a time when baseball played a much bigger role in the American culture
I never saw Willie Mays play. That is not exactly true because I saw him at a few Old Timers Days at Candlestick Park in the late 1970s or early 1980s-and saw him make at least one basket catch, but that is obviously not the same as seeing him play in a real game. Nonetheless, Mays has been part of my life as a baseball fan since I became aware of the g…
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