Willie's Time: Baseball's Golden Age

by Charles Einstein

Book Overview

To a generation of fans, Willie Mays was the greatest ballplayer they had ever seen. The prowess and speed of the Say Hey Kid were unmatched on the diamond before his time, prompting Joe DiMaggio to label him, "the closest you can come to perfection." He was the first player to hit fifty home runs and steal twenty bases in a single season. Mays played for the New York Giants (1951-1957), San Francisco Giants (1958-1972), and New York Mets (1972-1973),...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080932573X
• ISBN13: 9780809325733
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

the best

I love baseball books so much that I have to force myself to read something more "substantive" Of the hundreds of baseball books I've read, this is the best. It's as much about history, and sociology, as it is about Willie, and that's what makes it so special.

Mays is the greatest, and this book is a masterpiece

Buy it if you are a fan of baseball. It is a masterpiece. Willie Mays is, unquestionably, the greatest baseball player in major league baseball history. This book is also a "walk through history" of baseball and baseball players in the time Mays played. Buy it. You will not be disappointed.

An underappreciated treasure

If you can find this book, get it and enjoy it. It is a wonderful book about Mays, baseball, and the America in which he lived. It works as biography and baseball and history, delivering big in all ways.