Willie Mays : The Life, The Legend (Paperback)

from ghr4

James S. Hirsch's Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend will likely long stand as the definitive biography of one of the greatest players in baseball history. Hirsch tried for years to get Mays to work with him on the book project, finally securing that cooperation after nearly giving up hope. In add...

from Wheatland

An absorbing biography revealing much that was not known to me at the time the events occurred. Mays entered professional baseball in the years after World War 2 when some baseball owners began to accept that top players of all colors would bring in the fans and win games. As one of the first pla...

from jimrgill

This very well written biography meticulously chronicles many-if not all-of the important events in the life of Willie Mays as both a superstar baseball player and a complex and often inscrutable man. Perhaps the most enlightening aspect of Hirsch's comprehensive examination of Mays' life is his ...

from bigmoose

For me, a "Mays worshiper", Hirsch has captured the essence of the legend. Mays was the greatest ball player of all time, without any doubt or argument. But, he is much more than that. He is a quality person through and through and this biography repeatedly highlights the aspects of Mays's life t...

from mielniczuk

Reads like a long afternoon game with highs and lows shifting between the skills of the opposing teams. More than baseball, it introduced me to social changes in the 50s and 60s that I was too young to really appreciate or understand.