Willie Mays: The Life and Legend

"For two decades, during baseball's golden era in America in the 1950s and '60s, Willie Mays was the game's incandescent star, a marvelous natural athlete who played the game like no one had before. He hit prodigious home runs, ran down fly balls with boyish abandon and made some of the most astonishing throws in baseball history. The combination of his on-field exploits and native charm captivated the nation and transformed the young black man from the segregated South into an American icon. . . . "