And so it was over the weekend what with 40-year-old Warren Spahn pitching his no-hit masterpiece against the Giants and the Giants' Willie Mays retaliating with a record-tying 4-homer spree Sunday.

The two top talents of the time, Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays, have hit the ball harder and more successfully so far this early season than at any period in careers which, to be frank about it, never have quite reached expectations.

Like the Yankees' slugger, Mays, the terror of the Giants, has had seasons that would be considered the ultimate by most players, but not by -- or for -- Willie.

( 2 ) Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants borrowed a teammate's bat and became the ninth big leaguer to stroke four home runs in a game ; ;

Like Willie Mays in the outfield.

He is one of ten San Francisco Giants to appear on the cover, along with Kelly Downs, Rick Reuschel, Willie Mays ( nine times ), Alvin Dark, Juan Marichal, Will Clark, Tim Lincecum ( twice ), Brian Wilson, and Buster Posey.

The series was notable for Willie Mays ' over-the-shoulder catch off the bat of Vic Wertz in Game 1.

In 1949, Larry Doby also recommended Greenberg scout three players Doby used to play with in the Negro leagues: Hank Aaron, Ernie Banks, and Willie Mays.

That's the only thing that kept Willie Mays and me from being teammates – fifty dollars.

On July 31, 1969, Aaron hit his 537th home run, passing Mickey Mantle ; this moved him into third place on the career home run list, after Willie Mays and Babe Ruth.

During the strike-shortened season of 1972, Aaron tied and then surpassed Willie Mays for second place on the career home run list.

* 1931 – Willie Mays, American baseball player

On August 15, Thome hit 599th and 600th homerun at Comerica Park to become the eighth player in Major League history to hit 600 homeruns, joining Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, Ken Griffey Jr., and Alex Rodriguez.

Lee, a longtime fan of baseball, donated 200 baseballs signed by famous Negro League players, including Willie Mays, Hank Aaron and Josh Gibson, to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in June 2008.

The day after their doubleheader loss, the Pirates traveled to New York's Polo Grounds, where Roberto, having just achieved some measure of vindication against the team that let him get away, now had a chance to compete against his two great baseball heroes, both his boyhood idol Monte Irvin and his recently acquired friend and mentor ( not to mention teammate, with the 1954-55 Caribbean Champion Santurce Crabbers ), Willie Mays, both of whom now patrolled the outfield of the defending World Champion New York Giants, with whom the Pirates now began a four-game series, hoping to pick up their first win of 1955.

On May 6, Giants ' center fielder Willie Mays celebrated his 29th birthday with his first home run in the team's new stadium, Candlestick Park, a 350-foot line drive to right field which barely eluded the grasp of a leaping Roberto Clemente.

In the end, however, after the American League had rallied late to tie and jumped ahead in the tenth, Clemente would top off the NL's come-from-behind win with a walk-off single off Hoyt Wilhelm, as Willie Mays scampered home with the fifth and deciding run in a wild, windswept affair.

Speaking with reporters after the game, Clemente took the opportunity to pay tribute to his illustrious opponent, longtime role model and onetime mentor, Willie Mays.

To me, Willie Mays is the greatest who ever played.

These include tying the record for most Gold Glove Awards won among outfielders with twelve, which he shares with Willie Mays.

On August 22, 2007, as part of the Golden Anniversary of the Rawlings Gold Glove Award, Clemente was selected to the All-Time Rawlings Gold Glove Team, joining his onetime mentor, Willie Mays, and his indirect disciple, Ken Griffey Jr .,.

Sosa became only the fifth man in history, following Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, and Barry Bonds, to hit 600 regular season home runs.

As the New York Giants, they won 14 pennants and 5 World Championships, from the era of John McGraw and Christy Mathewson to that of Bobby Thomson and Willie Mays.

Durocher remained at the helm of the Giants through the 1955 season, and those eight years proved to be some of the most memorable for Giants fans, particularly because of the arrival of Willie Mays and arguably the two most famous plays in Giants ' history.

In game one of the 1954 World Series at the Polo Grounds against the Cleveland Indians, Willie Mays made " The Catch "— a dramatic over-the-shoulder catch of a fly ball by Vic Wertz to deep center field.

A Tom Swift media project finally came to fruition in 1983 when Willie Aames appeared as Tom Swift along with Lori Loughlin as Linda Craig in a television special, The Tom Swift and Linda Craig Mystery Hour, which aired on July 3.

It also appeared in Wee Willie Winkie and Other Stories in 1895, and in numerous later editions of that collection.

Pete as he appeared in Steamboat Willie

Pete then appeared as Mickey Mouse's enemy beginning with the cartoons The Gallopin ' Gaucho and Steamboat Willie, ( both 1928 ).

Willie the Giant is a giant that appeared in the Disney cartoons Mickey and the Beanstalk ( from the film Fun and Fancy Free, voiced by Billy Gilbert ) and Mickey's Christmas Carol ( voiced by Will Ryan ).

Cropper and Dunn, along with drummer Willie Hall, also appeared in the 1980 movie The Blues Brothers starring Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi.

* Bill Mauldin, noted cartoonist and author of the Willie and Joe series which appeared in the American Army newspaper Stars and Stripes, was at Anzio, serving with the 45th Infantry Division.

The bird has been depicted on postage stamps in Palau and the Solomon Islands, and has also appeared as a character in Australian children's literature, such as Dot and the Kangaroo ( 1899 ), Blinky Bill Grows Up ( 1935 ), and Willie Wagtail and Other tales ( 1929 ).

In the 1980s, Cannon, who is also a singer / songwriter, appeared in Honeysuckle Rose ( 1980 ) with Willie Nelson, Author!

Slim first appeared outside the United States in 1960, touring with Willie Dixon, with whom he returned to Europe in 1962 as a featured artist in the first of the series of American Folk Festival concerts organized by Dixon and promoter Willie Dixon that brought many notable blues artists to Europe in the 1960s and 1970s.

In 1998, he produced and appeared on Willie Nelson's album Teatro.

That same year, he appeared opposite another actor, Willie Aames, in the film Zapped !, and recorded an album for RCA ( he also recorded a 2nd album The Boys Are Out Tonight the following year ).

George Takei appeared on the TV series Secret Talents of the Stars as a country musician ; the lone song Takei would perform before the series's cancellation was the Willie Nelson song " On the Road Again.

On March 20, 2007, he appeared on The Colbert Report to mediate in what Stephen Colbert ( or rather, his television alter-ego ) saw as Willie Nelson infringing on his ice cream flavor time.

Willie appeared on the scene in the 1980s.

Every great boxer of the time — Rocky Marciano, Sugar Ray Robinson, Archie Moore, Rocky Graziano, Willie Pep and many others appeared on one or more of its broadcasts.

Promoter Willie Gilzenberg, and first WWWF " President " appeared on Washington, D. C. TV in April 1963 ; and announced that Rogers had been the victor in a wrestling tournament which took place in Brazil, effectively making him the first WWWF title holder.

He also had a song called " Willie Bounce " that appeared on several mixtapes in early 2006.

In 1986, Meo was one of five players under Barry Hearn's management ( along with Davis, Terry Griffiths, Willie Thorne and Dennis Taylor ) who appeared on " Snooker Loopy ", a hit single about the game recorded by Chas & Dave.

Murphey's friends, John Denver, Willie Nelson, Charlie Daniels, and Steve Weisberg appeared on the album.

Willie also appeared in the " Romford Rap " video with the rest of the " Matchroom Mob ".

Since the death of Willie Rushton guest panellists have appeared, and the two team members occasionally sing together, presumably to compensate for the unsteadiness of a guest's voice.

Pitts appeared on Al Green's Grammy nominated record I Can't Stop, produced by Willie Mitchell, as well as Cyndi Lauper's Grammy nominated Memphis Blues.

In 1965, Northrup had a. 205 batting average as he appeared in 54 games in the Detroit outfield, competing for playing time with Al Kaline, Don Demeter, Gates Brown, and fellow rookie Willie Horton.