317 with a league-leading 52 home runs, becoming the second NL player to hit 50 more than once and setting a franchise record that stood until Barry Bonds hit 73 in 2001. He was again named the MVP in 1965 after hitting. By 1963, he was making over $100,000 a year, setting a record at the time with a $105,000 contract. 347, and again in 1962 after leading the Giants to another World Series with 49 home runs and 141 RBI. He was the runner-up for the MVP in 1958 after hitting a career-high. In 1955 he made a run at the Triple Crown, leading the league with 51 home runs and finishing second in batting and RBI. 300 and posting 100 runs batted in (RBI) ten times each. He led the NL in home runs four times and in slugging percentage five times while batting over. The Giants swept the heavily favored Cleveland Indians for the lone World Series triumph of his career, and the team's last title before relocating to San Francisco after the 1957 season.Ī 24-time All-Star, tying him for the second most in history, Mays became a perennial MVP candidate, finishing in the top six in the voting in eleven of the next twelve seasons. His over-the-shoulder catch of a Vic Wertz fly ball in Game 1 of the 1954 World Series is one of the most famous baseball plays of all time. After spending most of the next two years in the United States Army during the Korean War, he was named the NL Most Valuable Player (MVP) in 1954 after winning the batting title with a. Mays joined the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro American League in 1948, playing with them until the Giants signed him once he graduated from high school in 1950, then won the Rookie of the Year Award in 1951 after hitting 20 home runs to help the Giants win their first pennant in 14 years. Mays is the oldest living member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Mays played in the National League (NL) between 19 for the New York / San Francisco Giants and New York Mets. Regarded as one of the greatest players ever, Mays ranks second behind only Babe Ruth on most all-time lists, including those of The Sporting News and ESPN. (born May 6, 1931), nicknamed ' the Say Hey Kid' and ' Buck', is a former center fielder in Major League Baseball (MLB). Hit 4 home runs in one game on April 30, 1961.

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