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When baseball's Giants moved from New York to San Francisco, Negro Batting Star Willie Mays decided that he might as well move too. He and his attractive wife Marghuerite shopped around, finally decided on a modern threebedroom house on a hillside in San Francisco's well-pruned Sherwood Forest district. After discussing the price-$37,500 -dismayed Willie learned that his neighbors-to-be, all white, did not want the Mayses. Their presence would "depress property values." Last week, after San Francisco's Council for Civic Unity and Mayor George Christopher denounced the Sherwood Foresters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 25, 1957 | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

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