{"id":1693,"date":"2014-12-11T09:23:06","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T16:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1693"},"modified":"2018-10-18T13:09:29","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T20:09:29","slug":"mays-willie-howard-1931","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1693","title":{"rendered":"MAYS, WILLIE HOWARD, 1931-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Professional baseball center fielder. Born&#8211; May 6, 1931, Westfield, Ala. Parents&#8211; William Howard Mays and Annie Satterwhite. Married&#8211; Margherite Wendell Chapman, 1956. Children&#8211;one.\u00a0 Married Mae Louise Allen, November 27, 1971.\u00a0 Education&#8211; Fairfield High School, graduated 1950. \u00a0Served in U.S. Army, 1952-54. Employed by Birmingham Black Barons Baseball Team, 1948-1950; New York Giants Baseball, Trenton, N.J., 1950-1951, Minneapolis, 1951, New York Giants and\u00a0San Francisco Giants, 1951-1972; New York Mets, 1972-1973.\u00a0 Worked for\u00a0Park Place\u00a0Casino, Atlantic City, 1979-85. Special Assistant to the President of the San Francisco Giants, after 1986. Batted 660 homeruns; received 12 Gold Glove Awards.Holds numerous records for baseball achievements; among other honors,\u00a0named National League&#8217;s Most Valuable Player, 1954, 1965; Baseball&#8217;s Player of the Year in 1954 and Player of the Decade, 1970; Hickok Belt, 1954; Male Athlete of the Year, Associated Press, 1954. Elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame on his first year of eligibility, 1979. Placed second on <em>The Sporting Life <\/em>List of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players. Received honorary doctorates from Yale, Dartmouth, and San Francisco State.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Marquis who&#8217;s who online<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Say Hey; the Autobiography of Willie Mays. New York; Simon and Shuster, 1988.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Born to Play Ball. New York; Putnam, 1955.<\/p>\n<p>Danger in Center Field. Larchmont, N.Y.; Argonaut Books, 1963.<\/p>\n<p>My Secrets of Playing Baseball. New York; Viking, 1967.<\/p>\n<p>Say Hey!: The Autobiography of Willie Mays.\u00a0 Simon and Schuster, 1988.<\/p>\n<p>Willie Mays; My Life in and Out of Baseball. New York; Dutton, 1966.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Professional baseball center fielder. Born&#8211; May 6, 1931, Westfield, Ala. Parents&#8211; William Howard Mays and Annie Satterwhite. Married&#8211; Margherite Wendell Chapman, 1956. Children&#8211;one.\u00a0 Married Mae Louise Allen, November 27, 1971.\u00a0 Education&#8211; Fairfield High School, graduated 1950. \u00a0Served in U.S. Army, 1952-54. Employed by Birmingham Black Barons Baseball Team, 1948-1950; New York Giants Baseball, Trenton, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-m-o"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1693"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8968,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions\/8968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}