Willie Mays: The Life, The Legend Audiobook (Free)

The “enormously entertaining and wide-ranging” (Seattle Times) authorized, definitive, NY Times bestselling biography of Willie Mays, the most complete baseball player ever.

Willie Mays is arguably the best player in baseball history, even now revered for the passion he brought to the overall game. He started as an adolescent in the Negro Leagues, became a cult hero in NY, and was the headliner in Major League Baseball’s striking expansion to California. He was a mixture of power, acceleration, and about Willie Mays: THE LIFE SPAN, The Star stylistic bravado that enraptured enthusiasts for more than two decades. Now James Hirsch reveals the person behind the participant.

Mays was a transcendent shape who received standing up ovations in foe stadiums and who, through the turbulent civil privileges era, urged understanding and reconciliation. A lot more than his records, his legacy is usually defined from the real pleasure that he brought to fans as well as the adoring memories which have been handed to future generations so they might know the magic and beauty of the overall game. With meticulous analysis and sketching on interviews with Mays himself as well as with good friends, family, and teammates, Hirsch presents an excellent portrait of one of America’s most significant cultural icons.