SLIDESHOW: Willie Mays -- A Life in Pictures Mays called it a career after 22 seasons with 660 home runs, which was the third ...

White America knew Willie Mays before they had heard of Martin Luther ... He was the perfect standard bearer when the images transitioned from black-and-white to living color.

Willie Mays, at the public entrance; home runs that splash into McCovey Cove (named after another Hall of Fame Willie); an 80-foot Coca-Cola bottle with playground slides and miniature baseball ...