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.

Horse racing's most famous jockey, Willie Shoemaker, was a resident and attended El Monte High School, until he dropped out to work in the nearby stables.

* Willie Roaf, NFL Hall of Fame player, attended Louisiana Tech

Governor Jerry Brown, Lieutenant Governor Mervyn Dymally, and Assemblyman Willie Brown, among others, attended a large testimonial dinner in honor of Jones in September 1976.

In September 1977, Willie Brown served as master of ceremonies at a large testimonial dinner for Jones attended by Governor Jerry Brown and Lieutenant Governor Mervyn Dymally and other political figures.

As a show of support, Willie Brown spoke out against enemies at a rally at the Peoples Temple, also attended by Harvey Milk and Art Agnos.

Also likely, Mrs. Astor had noted the rising social profile of the Vanderbilt family, led by Alva and Willie, and viewing them as useful allies in her efforts to keep New York society exclusive had called formally on the Vanderbilts prior to Alva's lavish ball which Mrs. Astor herself attended.

The funeral in Jim's boyhood town of Antioch, California on July 19 was attended by 300 people, including Mayor Willie Brown, ex-District Attorney Terence Hallinan, and many O ' Farrell ecdysiasts.

In San Jose, California, Martin attended a talent show as " Boxcar Willie " and performed under the nickname for the first time.

Although it was raining, the ceremony was attended by approximately 30, 000 people ( including notable figures such as Willie Mays, Robin Williams, and Barbra Streisand ) and included a 20-minute speech made by Clinton, who had recently undergone bypass surgery.

Ohs political involvement was sparked when he attended Willie Nelson's Farm Aid conference in St. Louis in September 1986.

After the breakup of the Route 11 Boys, Secor attended Ithaca College and brought Fuqua up to New York State, where they met Willie Watson through mutual friend Richie Stearns.

" In its short existence, the Foundation has hosted a Great Spaces Open House at the Stadium that was attended by over a hundred people, two Legends Baseball Camps led by former major leaguers Steve Trout, Rick Honeycutt, Willie Wilson, and Jay Johnstone, and on December 14, 2009, Engel Stadium was approved as a site on the National Register of Historic Places.

It was named for Maggie Lena Walker, the first woman and African-American to operate a bank in the United States and was once attended by African American tennis pro Arthur Ashe, as well as pro football Hall-of-Famer Willie Lanier, and NBA great Bob Dandridge.

Willie Parker was born in Clinton, North Carolina, attended Clinton High School, and was a letterman in football.

Boys no longer bothered learning to bunt and even school kids scorned to `` choke up '' on a bat as Willie Keeler and the famous hitters of another day had done.

Willie Conway goes home for his high school class reunion.

After leaving school he devoted himself to working with the mafia-associated Fulton-Rockaway Boys gang, where he met and befriended fellow future Gambino mobsters Angelo Ruggiero and Wilfred " Willie Boy " Johnson.

The first school in Wabbaseka was named Willie K. Hocker High school and existed until racial integration in the late 1960s at which time it merged with Wabbaseka High School located in a different location.

The author Willie Morris described the audience at Dupree's final high school game as " the most distinctive crowd I had ever seen ... four thousand or so people seemed almost an equal of mix of whites, blacks, and Indians ... "

Wichita State University was also the first Division 1-A school to hire a black head coach in College Football, Willie Jeffries in 1979.

Ingrams was educated at the independent preparatory school West Downs in Winchester, Hampshire, followed by Shrewsbury School, where he met Willie Rushton and edited the school magazine.

He dropped out of school to work as a legislative consultant to California State Assembly Speakers Leo McCarthy and Willie Brown.

Groundskeeper Willie became Bart's teacher because, according to Principal Skinner, Groundskeeper Willie's shack is the only place on school grounds " outside all laws of Man and God.

Also, in this episode Principal Skinner gives Groundskeeper Willie an elementary school diploma for snitching on Bart.

In 2006, Groundskeeper Willie was named the fourth best peripheral character in the history of the show by IGN, who said " high-points for the character were being trained to be civilized, wrestling a wolf that was let loose in the school and becoming a substitute for the French language teacher-' Bon jourrr!

In fact, the school would not have survived the crucial first few years without the devoted aid of his good friend and assistant headmaster Thomas MacDonagh, and the solid dedication of Pat's brother Willie.

Its aim was to promote rugby at school level in an attempt to regain ' the glorious days of Gwyn Nicholls, Willie Llewellyn and Dr E. T.

He is discovered by government official Willie Lumpkin, and subsequently recruited into a child prodigy think tank / school located in the upper floors of the Baxter building.

The son of a veteran of the Spanish Civil War and a housewife, Willie is the daily victim of three school bullies.

However, Willie is still bullied at school by Big Boy Wilkinson, Henjie Henick and Spit McGee, until Dink sends him a German helmet and belt from the front line.

She entered amateur singing contests as a child, and while at school worked as a back-up singer then band member with Willie Revillame.

Only some students, including the classmates of Bart and Lisa, show up while Skinner and Willie are the only faculty members at the school that day.

When the kids try to leave school, however, snow has piled up, trapping the kids inside with Skinner and Groundskeeper Willie.

The Green Bay Packers had left Defensive End Willie Davis, who went to school at Grambling.

The " Cha Cha Slide " is a song often played at dance clubs, school dances / proms, parties, ice and roller skating rinks, bar mitzvahs and weddings in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the United Kingdom ( the song reached number one in the latter country in 2004 ), created by Chicago's DJ Casper ( Willie Perry aka Mr. C the Slide Man ).

Racing to the school with the mountain bikes to avoid a potential lawsuit, Skinner tells Willie if the bullies are dead, they make for Mexico.