Agreeing to Mr. Mays’ terms “would have speeded up the process of the book, but I think it also would have sacrificed a level of breadth and depth, and, most critically, credibility and integrity,” Mr ...

When Jackie Robinson broke the color line in baseball in 1947, he became the public face of integrated professional sports. A few years later, Willie Mays built on that achievement by becoming the ...

Willie Mays, the San Francisco Giants’ baseball legend, died Tuesday at age 93. Mays played 21 seasons with the Giants and is considered by many to be the greatest all-around baseball player ever.