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.

Like other progressives, he rode a backlash against the patronage politics of then-Mayor Willie Brown.

Like the other Outlaw artists in the business at the time ( Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, David Allan Coe, Hank Williams Jr .), Tucker was able to combine qualities of Country and Rock music into her voice to make the Outlaw sound that was popular at the time.

Like her second album, it included collaborations with artists Rodney Crowell and Willie Nelson.

** You Cannot Live as I Have Lived and Not End Up Like This: The Thoroughly Disgraceful Life and Times of Willie Donaldson ( Ebury Press, 2007 ) ISBN 978-0-09-191386-1

# " No Business Like Love Business " ( Brad Shapiro, Clarence Reid, Steve Alaimo, Willie Clarke )

* New York Times: His Car Smelling Like French Fries, Willie Nelson Sells Biodiesel ( by Danny Hakim.

Like Robinson, Willie Mays refused to sign with the Dodgers after the season, and was traded to the New York Mets, the National League successor to both the Giants and Dodgers in New York.

Like the Vikings, the Chiefs also had an outstanding defensive line, which was led by defensive tackles Buck Buchanan and Curley Culp, and defensive ends Jerry Mays and Aaron Brown.

Like most multi-purpose stadiums, the outfield seats were far from the field.

Like Luis, I can't see something like this happening to me.

`` Like enough we'll all be up on top by sundown ''.

Like a man making a deep dive, Greg took full breath and plunged back into the valley.

Like as if it were built of books ''.

Like a mischievous boy expecting punishment, Matsuo awaited reaction from the jungle.

Like his late colleague, Mitropoulos, he reads mystery stories, in particular Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Like Pilate, they had washed their hands.

Like his friend and contemporary August Strindberg he had little patience with collective mediocrity.

Like Napoleon, he was the worst of losers.

Like Holmes, the American private eye rejects the social conventions of his time.

Like Lincoln, he can distinguish his relation to God from the constitutional responsibilities a questionable decision exacts of him.

Like Roosevelt, he can distinguish an attitude toward a Russian leader he may share with a host of Americans from the responsibilities diplomatic convention may impose upon him.

Like Burnet, he deplores the indifference of the people in the face of the crisis.

Like Green, Trevelyan aimed to write a history not of `` English kings or English conquests '', but of the English people.

Like most major works of synthesis, The History Of England is informed by the positive views of a first-class mind, and this is surely a major work.

Like his volume on Wycliffe, the work was accompanied by the publication of a selected group of documents, in this case illustrative of the history of Queen Anne's reign down to 1707.

Like all Russians he was an emotional man, and in him the emotions warred.

Like ours, the economy of the space merchants must constantly expand in order to survive, and, like ours, it is based on the principle of `` ever increasing everybody's work and profits in the circle of consumption ''.

Like everything else in Rome, ruins and monuments alike, that house is lived in.

Like every Southerner I can't escape the romantic tradition of brave defeats, forlorn lost causes.

Like most Democratic spokesmen, Carvey predicts 1962 will be a tremendously `` partisan year ''.

Like Mrs. Dalloway, with her regrets about Peter Walsh, he had his moments of melancholy over a youth too well spent.

Like the bell at Mass, the doorbell was pitched too high.

Like a particle drawn to a magnet he returned to that which was pressing so hard in his mind.

Like Eliot, in my fantasies, I had a proud bearing and, with a skill that was vaguely continental, I would lead Jessica through an evening of dancing and handsome descriptions of my newest exploits, would guide her gently to the night's climax which, in my dreams, was always represented by our almost suffocating one another to death with deep, moist kisses burning with love.

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.

( 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 ; ;

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.