Willie. Throughout his baseball career, Mays earned the nickname, “The Say Hey Kid.” In 1956, Mays married Marghuerite Wendell Chapman, and the former spouses adopted a son named Michael.

Willie Mays, whose prodigious power ... He thanked New York baseball fans: “When they like you, they love you.” Mays married ...

Willie Mays, former New York Giants player, on Aug. 18, 1954. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images Mays was married twice, the second time in 1971 to wife May Louise Mays. The two remained together until ...

In 2015 Obama presented him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Willie Mays married Marghuerite Wendell Chapman in 1956; they adopted a son, who survives him, but divorced in 1963; he married ...

(Willie Sr. and Annie never married.) By the time he was 5, Mays would play catch with his father on the farmland near their home. Willie Sr. taught his son each position, one-by-one starting with ...

Michael was adopted by Willie Mays and his ex-wife, Marghuerite Wendell Chapman, in 1959. Willie was then married to Mae Louise Allen for more than 40 years. Not much is publicly known about ...

She married there and had 10 children, but Mays kept in touch with her into his major league playing days. His father moved with him to Fairfield, another Birmingham suburb, when Willie was still ...