1987 — Mike Tyson beats Pinklon Thomas by TKO in round 6 in Las Vegas to retain WBC/WBA heavyweight boxing titles. 1993 — Emerson Fittipaldi wins his second Indianapolis 500, by 2.8 seconds.

2002 — Detroit advances to the Stanley Cup finals for the fourth time in eight years with a 7-0 win over Colorado in Game 7 of the Western Conference finals. Colorado becomes the first NHL team to ...

1951 — Willie Mays, a highly touted rookie for the Giants, went 0-for-5 in his debut against the Philadelphia Phillies. 1982 ...

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Other inductees, and their primary schools, are Ron Bell, Marist; James Bland, Randolph-Clay; Willie ... Died in 2006. Chantay Frost: Won girls state titles at Columbia (2010, 2012, 2013) and Mays ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Willie Mays may have died Tuesday at his home in the Bay Area, but everywhere you turned Wednesday, everything you felt, everyone you talked to, Mays was everywhere in his ...

Willie Mays, the "Say Hey Kid" of 1950s and 1960s Giants fame, a home run slugger and center field star for most of his 23-year Major League Baseball career, died Tuesday at 93 after a short ...

Bob Veale, the towering, hard-throwing left-hander from Birmingham who was an All-Star pitcher with the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1960s, has died ... Klima for his 2009 book Willie’s Boys ...

Lewis died on February 27 of a heart attack in his Los Angeles home. Regarded as one of the greatest baseball players who ever lived, Willie Mays was astounding ... retired in 2009, after playing ...

has died. He was 93. (AP Photo, File) Willie Mays, 93. The electrifying “Say Hey Kid” whose singular combination of talent, drive and exuberance made him one of baseball’s greatest and most ...

He was enshrined into the Hall of Fame in 2009, his first year ... Ken Holtzman and Vida Blue also have died since January 2023. It was just six months ago that Willie Mays, the greatest player ...

Harrelson died after a six-year battle with Alzheimer ... Cepeda rose from humble origins to stardom while hitting behind Mays and Willie McCovey in the Giants lineup. A trade later landed him ...