Willie Mays is known for playing baseball. Now a retired Hall of Famer, Mays is in the top ten players for career home runs. His exceptional career led to over 20 appearances at the All-Star Game.

No. In Game 1 of the 1954 World Series, the New York Giants' center fielder made a great throw to the infield that prevented two Cleveland Indians baserunners from making huge advances on the basepaths. The Giants went on to win the contest 5-2 in 10 innings and eventually swept the Indians in four games.

Babe Ruth was about 7 years old when he started to play baseball at the school his parents placed him in. St. Mary's Industrial School (Baltimore), an institution for underprivileged boys is were he learned to play baseball, and he was good. He began to play semiprofessional ball in Pennsylvania and was signed by the Baltimore Orioles (International League) in 1914. That same year he was sold as a pitcher to the Boston Red Sox of the American League.

Willie Mays goes by The Say Hey Kid, and Buck.

A 1952 Andy Pafko card is word $1,100

He charges $5 to $10 to sign his name to something, and has done so tens of thousands of times. Sure sounds like someone who can write. Thus he is not illiterate. Not sure why you would think so.

He missed much of the 1952 baseball season and all of the 1953 season because of Army duty.

He was on the winning side many times. But in 1968 at the Houston Astrodome, Willie Mays pretty much won the All-Star Game for the National League all by himself.

Mays led off the game in the first inning and singled off pitcher Luis Tiant. An errant pickoff throw by Tiant allowed Mays to reach second. Then a wild pitch sent Mays to third. He scored when Willie McCovey grounded into a double play. That was the only run of the game. The National League won 1-0 and Mays was named the game's Most Valuable Player.

He hit 52 home runs during the 1965 season, his second MVP year.

Since 1972, he has headed the Say Hey Foundation, which is designed to help underprivileged children.

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13, the third most a pitcher gave up to Mays. He hit more HRs off of Warren Spahn (18) and Vernon Law (15).

Mays, who was elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame in 1979, is alive and well, and celebrated his 86th birthday on May 6, 2017.

As of May 6, 2017, Mays is fifth on the all-time home run list with 660. He had a lifetime batting average of .302 and is one of 29 players to have 3,000 career hits.

Mays was arguably the greatest ballplayer of his generation. As an all-around ballplayer, he was superior to Mantle or Williams. He did everything well. Like Joe DiMaggio before him, Mays was an excellent fielder, a superb base runner, a great power hitter and one who retired with a lifetime batting average above .300. There have not been that many major league players who have excelled both defensively and offensively. Mays could do it all.

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Willie Mays is alive and well, and celebrated his 86th birthday on May 6, 2017.

Willie Mays played 22 seasons between 1951-1973 for the Giants (1951-1952, 1954-1972) and Mets (1972-1973). Mays was drafted into the US Army in 1952 and missed most of that season and all of the 1953 season.

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None today as Willie Mays has been retired since 1973. When Mays did play in the Major Leagues, Willie played for the New York Giants from 1951 thru 1957, moved with the team to San Francisco and played for the Giants from 1958 thru part of 1972 and then was traded to the New York Mets on May 11, 1972 and played with the Mets in 1973 as well. Mays also played for the "Birmingham Black Barons" of the Negro Leagues in 1948-9 prior to having his contract bought by the Giants in 1950 after he graduated high school.

You can write him at the following address:

c/o The San Francisco Giants

AT&T Park

24 Willie Mays Plaza

San Francisco, CA 94107

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First of all, let's make certain we restrict the discussion to ONE THING ONLY: who was a better BASEBALL PLAYER. Robinson is clearly a far more admirable person, and had a greater positive impact on baseball -- indeed, on American society in general. But that wasn't the question asked.

For a total MLB career, there can be no doubt but that Ruth was better. Robinson played for a total of ten seasons. Ruth played more seasons than that just for the New York Yankees -- and it would no problem to find ten such seasons in which Ruth was better than Robinson in just about every statistical category.

Let's start with lifetime career AVERAGES (in all of the following, Ruth's stats are listed first, Robinson second).

BA: .342, .311 (in other words, Robinson's BEST year was only as good as Ruth's CAREER average)

On-base percentage: .474, .409 (ditto, except that the latter's best seasonal average wasn't even AS GOOD AS Ruth's career)

Slugging average: .690, .474 (ditto, and this to add: Robinson's BEST year was 150 points less than Ruth's CAREER)

OPS: 1.164, .883 (ditto)

It's true that Ruth played more years than Robinson. So, to be fair, we'll only add up stats from his first twelve years with the Yankees. That means we won't use 1919, the year Ruth set the record for most home runs in a season; or 1932 (and onward), the year he hit 41 homers.

At bats (remember that Robinson often batted lead-off): 5936, 4877

Runs: 1664, 947 (Ruth bested Robinson's BEST year in nine seasons)

Hits: 2119, 1518 (Robinson had more than 185 hits in a season only once; Ruth did it six times)

2Bs: 373, 273

3Bs: 94, 54 (yes, Ruth had far more triples than Robinson)

HRs: I'll skip this stat

RBIs: 1647, 734 (Ruth bested Robinson's best year in ten seasons)

Stolen bases: 84, 197 (about the only stat for which Robinson out-did Ruth)

Walks: 1276, 740 (Ruth bested Robinson's best year in thirteen seasons)