R.I.P. Willie Mays
Willie Howard Mays Jr. was born on May 6, 1931 in Westfield, Alabama. His father, Cat Mays, was a talented baseball player with the black team at the local iron plant, and his mother, Annie Satterwhite, was a talented basketball and track star in high school. Willie’s father exposed him to baseball from an early age, playing catch with him at five and allowing him to sit on the bench with his Birmingham Industrial League team at the age of ten. Besides baseball, Mays played both football and basketball in high school, ...