Willie Mays

For example, Willie Mays has openly admitted that the players of his era took "greenies" -- better known as the drug "speed" -- to maintain their energy and competitive edge over the course of the long professional baseball season. 

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Willie McCovey smoked a liner into second baseman Bobby Richardson's glove to end the series.  Willie Mays was on second and Mattie Alou was on third with the Yankees up 1-0, so had McCovey's shot gotten through, San Francisco would have won the World Series.

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's Earliest Rivalry?

    Like Alex Rodriguez and Barry Bonds, or Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays, or Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio, two of the best hitters of all time played at the same time in the early days of baseball.  By 1919, when Babe Ruth decided to rest his pitching arm (his career pitching record was 80-41 to that point) and take up hitting full time, Ty Cobb was already at the top of the sport.  His 10 batting titles between 1907 and 1918 were unmatched by anyone in history, he had already hit better than .400 in a season twice, he routinely led the league in on-base percentage, slugging percentage and hits, and he had led the majors in stolen bases six times.  The Georgia Peach was, simply put, the best player of his time.

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ises of futility against Marichal and his nearly vertical leg kick.  And no one knew that when Willie Mays threw Norm Larker out at the plate in the top of the fourth, that was the closest anyone would come to reaching that holy grail of destinations until the Say Hey Kid, himself, decided it should be so.

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