How Willie Mays Handled Being A Black Superstar In A Racist Era

“Shut up!” insisted Willie Mays, the baseball legend who died last Tuesday at age 93. “Just shut up!” It was the summer of 1964, and Mays had convened all of the Black and Latino players on the San Francisco Giants in a hotel room in Pittsburgh. A newspaper column had quoted their manager, Alvin Dark, making racist comments about their intellectual and cultural deficiencies.

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