Willie Mays: The Leader in Extra-Inning Home Runs
Willie Mays hit 22 home runs in extra innings, tops among…
Roomie: The Relationship Willie Mays and Monte Irvin Shared
Roomie – that’s Monte Irvin. He and I room together when…
Frightening Pitchers with Giant Willies: The Slugging Duo of Willie Mays and Willie McCovey
Willie Mays and Willie McCovey played together for 14 seasons,…
Fatherly Willie Mays Took Bobby and Barry Bonds Under His Wing
San Francisco Giants Hall of Famer Willie Mays influenced…
Willie Mays and His Managers
Whitey Lockman and Willie Mays made Giants manager Leo Durocher…
Willie Mays and the Giants: Why the Greatest Player Won Only Three Pennants
From 1954 through 1966, Willie Mays dominated the National…
That One Time When Willie Mays Wasn’t Perfect
Some sportswriters in the 1960s worried that Willie Mays…
The Unlikely Celebrity: The Say Hey Kid in Song and on Screen
This is the musical score to one of the songs devoted to…
Say Hey Forever
Willie Mays with Brent Kallestad, at Tallahassee on February…
The Bronx Always Beckoned
The headline in the March 13, 1903, edition of the New York…
Yankee Stadium: The Giants’ Greatest Mistake
White Construction Company signed on as general contractor…
Phil Schenck: Yankee Stadium’s First Groundskeeper
Babe Ruth pitches in to help the grounds crew in The House…
Whitey Witt: The First Yankee Hitter to Come to the Plate at Yankee Stadium
Whitey Witt batted .301 as a Yankee, from 1922-1925. (National…
When Harry Met the Bronx Bombers: The History of the Yankee Stadium Concessions
Harry M. Stevens, shown at left with Yankees owner Jacob…
The Negro Leagues East-West All-Star Game and The Two Games Held at Yankee Stadium
The White major leagues held their first All-Star Game on July…
Satchel Paige at Yankee Stadium
In his four appearances at Yankee Stadium with the 1952 St.…
Lou Gehrig’s Farewell Speech: July 4, 1939
A packed crowd of 61,808 fans heard Lou Gehrig make his “Luckiest…
My Six Decades with the Yankees
This excerpt is from the SABR book, Yankee Stadium 1923-2008:…
Safe at Home: Babe Ruth at ‘The House That Ruth Built,’ 1939-1948
On September 28, 1947, the Bambino made an appearance before…
Yankee Old-Timers Day: A Long-Running Tradition
The 2007 Old-Timers Day included Whitey Ford (16), Yogi Berra…
‘We Were the Only Girls to Play at Yankee Stadium’
The three-inning exhibition between the Chicago Colleens…
Bats, Balls, Boys, and Dreams: The Hearst Sandlot Classic at Yankee Stadium, 1959-1965
Jim Spencer had 36 major-league home runs at Yankee Stadium…
Live From Yankee Stadium: A Brief History of the Yankees on Radio
Radio broadcasts of Yankees games in the 1920s were sparse,…
Yankee Stadium: The House That Ruth (and Unitas) Built!
In my 40 years working at the Babe Ruth Birthplace Museum in…