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This twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Willie’s Time: Baseball’s Golden Age restores to print Charles Einstein’s vivid biography of one of baseball’s foremost legends. With a new preface from the author, this volume replays the most dramatic moments of the Say Hey Kid’s career—from the 1951 Miracle Giants to the Amazing Mets of 1973—and takes us inside the lives of Ruth, DiMaggio, Aaron, Durocher, and others along the way. Einstein offers a compelling and complete look at Mays: as a youth in racist Birmingham, a triumphant symbol of African American success, a sports hero lionized by fans, and yet all the while, still a very human figure destined to play for two decades amid baseball’s Golden Age.

First published in 1979, Willie's Time is the only ballplayerbiography ever named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. ... Read more

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Great Book
Willie Mays was my hero when I was a boy. The book captured his vitality and spirit nicely. Picking up and reading it -- I'm 12 years old again watching him catch and hit again. That's MY Willie Mays!

History lesson
This book is a great history lesson not just of baseball but of the times Willie played. There are many memories of the "Giants" of yesterday.

a magical book about a truly great baseball player
"Willie's Time," by Charles Einstein, is a magical read, in my opinion.Einstein basically starts when Willie made it to the "Bigs," and he weaves history into the phenomenal career of Willie Mays, who is arguably the greatest baseball player that ever lived.

I started playing Little League baseball in 1960, and I played center.Willie Mays was my hero.Mays could-and did-do it all: (1)hit for average, (2)hit with power, (3)run the bases, (4)play defense, and (5)win games for his team with intangibles.Many players challenged Willie's arm, and Mays threw the majority of them out.

To attempt to compare drug-enhanced players of today with Willie Mays is ludicrous.They are mere children compared to Willie.

Today (27 May 2005), Major League Baseball no longer exists (to me).But "Willie's Time" was a wonderful reminder of not only a great baseball player, but also a time when Major League Baseball was fun.(RIP, Major League Baseball.)

In my opinion, you will NOT be disappointed if you buy this book.
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From the Negro Leagues to the National League to the Hall of Fame, here is the story of one of the all-time greats. Mays recalls his childhood in rural Alabama, his early playing career, and his life as a star rookie in the glory days of New York baseball. HC: Simon & Schuster. ... Read more

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say hey hey hey
This book is a great autobiography about a great black baseball player that ever played the game. This story will tell you about how he grew up in broyklen playing stickball in the streets with all of his friends. When this great ball player got his chance to play baseball for money he took it. He first started out in the Negro leagues for the New York giant's minor league team and then he finally got his chance to play in the bigs and play centerfield and right field because the rightfeilder was really slow so the coach had him playing two positions. When he went up to the bigs, he really helped there team go all the way to the World Series to play against the Indians. The giants swept the Indians in three straight games and took the pennit.

I would recommend this book to anybody out there who loves the game of baseball. It is a well-written autobiography about a great baseball player who was voted the greatest player of his time. If you wanted to pick this book up and read it you would fall in love with the game of baseball or fall in love with Willie Mays hays.

Say Hey?
I read this book a few years ago, and was both interested in Willie Mays not only as a player, but as a man.Growing up a baseball player Willie Mays was someone to idolize, and with the way he played, this was easy to do.What was most sad about this book was the fact that Willie ended up a great career having little money to show for it, and had to become a greeter at a casino to make ends meet.One can only imagine how much money he would command now, and how he would be set for life in today's current baseball climate.If A-Rod gets $25 million a year, than Willie would get much more.This book gets points for being an honest look at Willie's life, from his own perspective, and for that I aplaud him.If you like baseball, you will like this book.

A very well written autobiography
The autobiography of Willie Mayes portrays the life and times of one of America's best baseball players.Willie Mays played with a style and flairunmatched in this day and age. The book describes his trials andtribulations growing up in the deep south.

It is a very well-writtenautobiography, and if readers are into baseball or Willie Mays this is anexcellent selection.It is an excellent selection because it is a profileof American baseball and the way we idolize professional athletes.

A great book on the greatest all around ballplayer ever!!!
If you grew up during the 50s and 60s, Willie Mays was a household name.He is an american icon, and was recently voted the greatest living ballplayer.This book covers the remarkable life of this american hero,from his humble beginnings in segregated Alabama, to fame and fortune inthe major leagues, to his struggle to learn to live without baseball. Willie Mays is an american hero, and this is the best book there is onWillie Mays.Say Hey!!!!!

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One of baseball's outstanding players gives youngsters advice on how to play baseball and also relates many of his personal experiences in the game. ... Read more

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The "Easy Biographies" series focuses on the childhood and young-adult years of famous men and women who overcame obstacles to achieve greatness.Inspirational and informative reading for students with big dreams. ... Read more

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There are very few major personalities in the world of sports who have so much to say about our National Pastime. And even fewer who are as well respected as Bill White.

Bill White, who's now in his mid 70s, was an All-Star first baseman formany years with the New York Giants, St.Louis Cardinals and PhiladelphiaPhillies before launching a stellar broadcasting career with the NewYork Yankees for 18 years. He left the broadcast booth to become thePresident of the National League for five years.

A true pioneer as an African-American athlete, sportscaster, and top baseball executive, White has written his long-awaited autobiography in which he will be candid, open, and as always, most forthcoming about his life in baseball. Along the way, White shares never-before-told stories about his long working relationship with Phil Rizzutto, insights on George Steinbrenner, Barry Bonds, Reggie Jackson, Thurman Munson, Bob Gibson, Bart Giamatti, Fay Vincent, and scores of other top baseball names and Hall of Famers.

Best of all, White built his career on being outspoken, and the years fortunately have not mellowed him. UPPITY is a baseball memoir that baseball fans everywhere will be buzzing about. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Baseball Digest, published by Thomson Gale on October 1, 2005. The length of the article is 726 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Catching up with Vic Wertz's 1954 World Series Drive: Willie Mays' catch of Cleveland slugger's deep fly was outstanding regardless of how far the ball actually traveled.
Author: Bill Deane
Publication: Baseball Digest (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 64Issue: 8Page: 46(2)

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This digital document is an article from St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 380 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Signed essays ranging from 500 to 2,500 words, written by subject experts and edited to form a consistent, readable, and straightforward reference. Entries include subject-specific bibliographies and textual cross-references to related essays. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, 2nd ed., brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 693 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.The Early Civilizations in the Americas Reference Library provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the regions of the American continents in which two of the world's first civilizations developed: Mesoamerica (the name for the lands in which ancient civilizations arose in Central America and Mexico) and the Andes Mountains region of South America (in present-day Peru and parts of Bolivia, northern Argentina, and Ecuador). In both regions, the history of civilization goes back thousands of years. ... Read more

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Chapters: Roger Clemens, Willie Mays, Ichiro Suzuki, Pedro Martínez, Frank Robinson, Ken Griffey, Jr., Kirby Puckett, Carl Yastrzemski, Cal Ripken, Jr., Derek Jeter, Alfonso Soriano, Bo Jackson, Tim Raines, Mike Piazza, Gary Carter, Juan Marichal, Miguel Tejada, Brooks Robinson, Julio Franco, Major League Baseball All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award, Joe Morgan, Roberto Alomar, J. D. Drew, Dave Parker, Carl Crawford, Willie Mccovey, Fred Mcgriff, Tony Pérez, Bobby Bonds, Maury Wills, Jeff Conine, Steve Garvey, Fred Lynn, Garret Anderson, Don Sutton, Bill Madlock, George Foster, Sandy Alomar, Jr., Johnny Callison, Michael Young, Dave Concepción, Ken Griffey, Sr., Leon Wagner, Lamarr Hoyt, Jon Matlack, Terry Steinbach. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 385. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Derek Sanderson Jeter (pronounced ; born June 26, 1974) is an American professional baseball player. He is a Major League Baseball (MLB) shortstop who has played his entire career for the New York Yankees. He has served as the Yankees' team captain since 2003. Jeter's presence in the Yankees' lineup, highlighted by his hitting prowess, played an instrumental role in the team's late 1990s dynasty. Jeter debuted in the Major Leagues in 1995, and the following year he won the Rookie of the Year Award and helped the Yankees win the 1996 World Series. Jeter was also a member of championship-winning teams in 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2009. In 2000, Jeter became the only player to win both the All-Star Game MVP Award and the World Series MVP Award in the same year. He has been selected as an All-Star ten times, and he has won the Silver Slugger and Gold Glove awards on four occasions. He is regarded as a consummate professional, by teammates and opponents alike, and has a reputation as a reliable contribu...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=218947 ... Read more

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"Think you know all there is to know about Willie Mays? Well, did you know that:
*He once batted .477 in the minor leagues?
*He won twelve straight Gold Glove awards?
*He was the first African American team captain in major-league history?
Willie Mays started his baseball career in the little-known Negro Leagues in 1948. He crossed over to the major leagues with the New York Giants in 1951. During the 1954 World Series, Mays stunned the baseball world with an unbelievable over-the-shoulder catch. That play launched him into superstardom. He stayed with the Giants for more than twenty years, first in New York and then in San Francisco. Along the way, he earned his place in the record books, tallying the fourth-highest home run total in major-league history. Find out how Willie Mays made it to the top of his game and stayed there. " ... Read more

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Young baseball fans everywhere will love taking a look at sports legend, the great Willie Mays!
If you simply run your fingers down Willie Mays' stats in the back of this book, you can only imagine the excitement his fans felt as he played game after game building them.William Howard Mays Jr. was the first of the superstars, perhaps given the subtle differences in the actual playing field, one of the best ever.He was what you would call a "five-tool player," a "player [who] excels at all facts of the game."When he was a young boy growing up in Westfield, Alabama, he was the type of boy who was a contender in not only baseball, but also football and basketball.It could be said Willie cut his teeth on baseball because as a babe he learned to walk by chasing a baseball.And he started walking at the age of six months.

His parents separated when he was quite young and family circumstances left him in the care of his father who raised him with the help of two aunts.He wasn't destined to be an only child because his mother remarried and gave him eleven half-siblings.Baseball was his father's passion as well and William Sr. played semipro ball, where his son eventually joined him.Willie Jr. lasted one hot night as a dishwasher and decided playing baseball was infinitely more appealing.He was a young man who had what it took to be a major contender in the game, but he had a few things to learn and one of them was that he had to play his own game and quit imitating his idol, Joe DiMaggio.Piper Davis, the manager of the Birmingham Black Barons, said "he had to get over his fascination with DiMaggio and play like Willie Mays."

Young Willie easily made an impression in the Negro Leagues, but as luck would have it, he was spotted by Eddie Montague.Montague was sent to scout Alonzo Perry, but his eye was soon on a young twenty-year-old whiz kid.In the blink of an eye Willie found himself signed with the New York Giants.He received jersey number twenty-four and was third in the lineup.There were some unexpected obstacles.The "fans were verbally abusive" and he needed to loosen up some.By the end of the year he was the National League Rookie of the Year.In this book you'll be taking a good look at the man behind the legend. You'll learn about The Catch, his discouraging military service, family tragedies, his awards, his marriages, how he felt when "his honeymoon with the New York fans" was over, you'll learn about what happened when the team moved to San Francisco, and you'll get to take a look at many other fascinating aspects of his career.

Young baseball fans everywhere will love taking a look at sports legend, the great Willie Mays.This very well written and researched portrait focuses more on the baseball career of Willie Mays than his personal life.Although we get a glimpse what his life was off the ballfield, the facts are brief and are not gone into in great depth.I liked the balance the book made between his personal life and his game.I expected to find a "baseball bio" and was certainly not disappointed.For example I loved reading about things like how he became the "Say Hey Kid," how he made that infamous catch, how he fine-tuned his swing, how he encountered racism, and other game related vignettes.In the back of the book is an index, a glossary, personal statistics, regular-season statistics, defensive statistics (outfield), postseason offensive statistics, source notes, a bibliography, and additional recommended website resources to explore. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Notable Sports Figures, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 3369 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Takes a close look at the people in sports who have captured attention because of success on the playing field, or controversy off the playing field. This work features biographies on more than 600 people from around the world and throughout history who have had an impact not only on their sport, but also on the society and culture of their times. It also includes not only the record-breakers that dominated and changed their sport, but also the controversial figures that made headlines even apart from athletic events. ... Read more

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An easy-to-read biography of the recordsetting baseball player who is one of three in the game's history to hit 600 home runs. ... Read more

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Known as the Say Hey Kid, Willie Mays started off playing baseball in sandlots but grew up to become a baseball legend. When he joined the NY Giants, black players were still uncommon. But Willie Mays proved that baseball was just as much his sport as anyone's. His famous catches, amazing throwing arm, & record-setting home run average propelled Mays to the top of the league, & then on to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Willie Mays showed the world that when it came to being a great ball player, color didn't matter. This full-color illus. children's book tells his story in delightful verse: Say, what was that they they yelled each time you d make the pitcher pay? Say hey, Willie. Say hey. Includes a concise biography of Willie Mays. ... Read more

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Revisiting a Childhood Hero
A winner for adults as well as children! I grew up during the 1960s with baseball heroes like Willie Mays and Sandy Koufax, and reading this book with my two neices (4 and 7) was like revisiting a much-loved summer houseor vacation spot. Although the girls knew very little about baseball, theyloved the wonderful illustrations, and the lilting sing-song rhymes aboutthe great Willie Mays. This book would be especially appreciated bychildren from ethnic groups who don't always see themselves represented inmajor league sports: Willie didn't harp about race or racialdiscrimination, he just played the best game of baseball he could. Highlyrecommended. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Satchel Paige, Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Ozzie Smith, Lyman Bostock, Bo Jackson, Ben Paschal, Jake Peavy, Tommie Agee, Cleon Jones, Riggs Stephenson, Juan Pierre, Monte Irvin, Lee Maye, Jimmy Sexton, Rudy York, Bobby Bragan, Willie Mccovey, Slick Coffman, Josh Hancock, Dan Thomas, Tim Hudson, Delmon Young, Don Sutton, Andy Phillips, Early Wynn, Rip Sewell, Marlon Anderson, Matt Cain, George Foster, Billy Williams, Jimmy Key, Alex Ríos, Rusty Greer, Andre Thornton, Wilmer Mizell, Luke Sewell, Willie Wilson, Ray Prim, Artie Wilson, Mickey Mahler, Heinie Manush, Terry Leach, Terry Adams, Mike Mordecai, Joe Sewell, David Robertson, Virgil Trucks, Butch Hobson, Lee May, Bill Bruton, Gabby Street, Eric Yelding, Amos Otis, Jeff Brantley, Oscar Gamble, Doyle Alexander, Bill Selby, Pete Milne, Gary Knotts, Billy Hitchcock, Carlos May, Don Mincher, Marv Breeding, Bob Veale, Dusty Rhodes, Tike Redman, Gary Redus, Alex Grammas, Dave Stapleton, Tommie Aaron, Ron Jackson, Craig Brazell, Frank Lary, Josh Willingham, Mike O'berry, Lum Harris, Jim Nelson, Ike Boone, Frank Bolling, Dan Bankhead, Connor Robertson, Ken Mcbride, Willie Smith, Clay Carroll, Fresco Thompson, Terry Moore, Al Worthington, Colter Bean, Tom Oliver, Ted Sizemore, Bubba Church, Ehren Wassermann, Jeremy Brown, Hal Morris, Jim Davenport, Harry Malmberg, Wesley Wright, Guy Morton, Mike Potts, Jimmy Hitchcock, Bruce Benedict, P. J. Walters, Brandon Medders, Randy Tate, Dee Miles, Jerry Hairston, Sr., Jai Miller, Ed Morris, Willie Kirkland, Al Lary, Buddy Hancken, Fred Hatfield, Johnny Hairston, Frank House, Johnny Watwood, Jason Standridge, Fred Sington, Greg Wells, Terrence Long, Paul Phillips, Prentice Redman, Mark Woodyard, Ollie Brown, Chris Booker, Dick Coffman, Charlie Moore, Dave Veres, Ed Levy, Bill Holden, Gus Niarhos, ... ... Read more