Willie Mays Defined Baseball’s Golden Era
Willie Mays in New York, in 1955. (Photo by Hy Peskin/Getty Images)
Having grown up in Jim Crow Alabama, he never thought he’d play in a major league—let alone become America’s most exciting player.
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From the late 1940s to the early 1960s, baseball’s greatest era, Willie Mays was baseball’s greatest player. That was before football and baske…
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