Jun 23, 2024 · Bill Walton, Jerry West and Willie Mays: Their deaths in less than a month’s time represent a remarkable, almost unbearable loss for sports, which in our fraught moment is …

Jun 21, 2024 · Willie Mays, the baseball superstar who played for 22 years with the Giants and Mets, died on June 18, 2024. He was 93. With his death, the era of the living, mythic baseball …

Elgin Gay Baylor was a professional basketball player, who played for Los Angeles Lakers. He was born on September 16, 1934 and began playing basketball from an early age. Two of his …

Jun 21, 2024 · Bijan C. Bayne is a cultural critic and the author of Elgin Baylor: The Man Who Changed Basketball. The center fielder, who died at 93, was the last surviving star who began …

May 29, 2021 · He has been likened—and quite justifiably, we'd say—to Willie Mays’ preeminence in baseball. He most certainly is “the Willie Mays of basketball!” Jocko Collins, famed …

On the boards above stairs, the Harlem Globe Trotters were gyrating through their well-rehearsed routines, which only superficially resemble basketball. Hawkins reappeared. "Willie Mays, they...

Sep 23, 2020 · Mays was a recent graduate from Armstrong Tech High School and local legend in part for reasons related to Baylor. Despite losing his left arm as a five-year-old in a shooting …

Mar 23, 2021 · The Los Angeles Lakers have suffered another loss as one of their legendary former players, Elgin Baylor passed away of natural causes at the age of 86.

Mar 24, 2021 · “You don’t trade Willie Mays. And you don’t trade Elgin Baylor.” There were 10,132 people on hand to catch a doubleheader at Madison Square Garden that night, and the 2-for-1 …

Jun 4, 2010 · That’s when Mays, playing for Armstrong Tech, temporarily reduced Elgin Baylor to mortal status. Baylor had a godlike reputation on local playgrounds at that time, and his …