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Willie Mays
Inside Giants legend Willie Mays’ 660 home runs
Warren Spahn allowed Willie Mays’ first major-league home run on May 28, 1951. The Say Hey Kid belted 17 more off the Hall of Famer during a 22-season career that lifted Mays as high as No. 2 on the all-time home run list. Here s a look at the how Mays has ranked among the great power hitters.
By Nick Lozito | May 5, 2021 | Updated: May 4, 2021 2:06 PM
Of Mays 660 career home runs, four came in one game against the Braves at Milwaukee County Stadium on April 30, 1961. Two of his career 12 homers off Lew Burdette were hit that day. Entering 2021, 18 players have homered four times in a game.
The women of the Negro Leagues
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Recounting the history of the Negro Leagues is an incomplete exercise without also including the women who were part of the many stories. The Negro Leagues were the first place that a woman could own and run a baseball team and it was the first professional baseball league where a woman took the field alongside men. But as the Negro Leagues were the result of MLB’s exclusionary practice, so too did the Negro Leagues exclude and diminish the impact of the women who were a part of them.