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But the Giants had to play through without Willie; his draft number came up. Mays applied for a deferment on the ground that he was the principal support of his mother and a passel of nine half-brothers and sisters back in Alabama; it was not granted. He flunked his...
A Style of His Own. The Giants' sad showing in Willie's absence, and their winning performance when he got back, established him as a big-leaguer with a promising future. "A natural-born ballplayer," said Leo Durocher. In the case of Mays, Durocher was close to the...
At Fairfield Industrial High School, Willie picked up the nickname "Buckduck," and specialized in a course in cleaning and pressing. There was no baseball team, but Willie at 14 was already good enough to play with steel-mill clubs and independent semipros. When Willie was 16, Kitty Cat called up...
Ground Broken. Young, impressionable, little-tutored in the ways of the world, Willie Mays might not have been a wise gamble had he come along a few years before. But by the time the Giants signed him, the ground was well broken for Negroes in the majors. The Brooklyn Dodgers...
Willie started with the Giants' farm club in Trentom, N.J. in the Class B Inter-State League. By the next spring (1951), he was up to Triple A ball in Minneapolis. Willie was working overtime on his hitting. He collected pictures of his favorite ballplayer, Joe DiMaggio. He studied...