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Chapter Three: Willie Howard Mays<br />
After Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn<br />
Dodgers, other major league teams asked<br />
talented African American players to join<br />
them. One of these players was center fielder<br />
Willie Mays.<br />
Willie Howard Mays, nicknamed the Say<br />
Hey Kid, was born in Alabama in 1931. The<br />
son of a baseball player, Willie Mays had<br />
played baseball since childhood. He began<br />
playing in the Negro leagues at the age of<br />
sixteen, when he was still in high<br />
school.<br />
Willie Mays joined the New<br />
York Giants in 1950. Willie Mays hit<br />
twenty <strong>home</strong> runs in his first year and<br />
was named Rookie of the Year .<br />
He made many famous plays in center<br />
field. In Pennsylvania, Mays sailed across the<br />
outfield, racing to catch a fly ball that was hit<br />
almost five hundred feet away. He lost his<br />
baseball glove, but he managed to catch the<br />
ball with his bare hand! What an effort!<br />
Willie Mays was a great player in the<br />
field. He was a powerful hitter at the plate<br />
and a very fast runner around the bases.<br />
Willie Mays’s talent helped lead the Giants to<br />
the 1951 World Series.<br />
Willie Mays scores again!<br />
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