Willie Mays, Negro League Roots

Baseball

Willie Mays came up with the Birmingham Black Barons.

He wasn’t the next big thing – he was the big thing.

A teenager in a man’s world, schooling veterans with a bat in his hands and a cannon in center.

His time in the Negro Leagues sharpened him into the most complete player the major leagues had ever seen.

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