The Say Hey Kid’s first season in the bigs was shaping up to be an awful one. He’d gotten no hits. He was a rookie with the worst record in the league. Period. After 26 plate appearances he’d hit the ball only once.
Just days before being honored in his hometown for Major League Baseball's Field of Dreams game at Rickwood Field, legendary outfielder Willie Mays passed away "peacefully" at his home in San Francisco, Calif.
Baseball legend Willie Mays announced that he would not be making the trip back home this week to watch Major League Baseball's Field of Dreams game at Rickwood Field in Birmingham.