Orlando Cepeda, Hall of Famer and baseball’s ‘Baby Bull,’ dies at 86
Orlando Cepeda, one of baseball’s most feared hitters in the 1950s and 1960s, who played in three World Series but whose path to the Hall of Fame was slowed by…
Willie Mays, Baseball’s Electrifying Player of Power and Grace, Is Dead at 93
Mays hit 52 home runs in 1965, joining Ruth, Jimmie Foxx, Ralph Kiner and Mantle as the only players at that time to have hit at least 50 in a…
Willie Mays, baseball’s electrifying ‘Say Hey Kid,’ dies at 93
Willie Mays opened his big-league career with a confidence-rattling 0-for-12 stretch before finally blasting a home run off Warren Spahn early in 1951. “I’ll never forgive myself,’’ Spahn later joked.…