In Rickey Henderson, Pete Rose, Willie Mays and Fernando Valenzuela the sport of baseball lost four of its most electric ...

Jerry West walks onto the court during the NBA ... The Lakers went on to their 28th straight win, beating the Rockets 137-115 [AP Photo] Mays was a beloved African-American professional baseball ...

Many believe Willie Mays is the greatest of all-time ... it wasn’t only baseball that took heavy loss – basketball greats Jerry West and Bill Walton died as did football’s once-favorite ...

Jerry West, 86. Selected to the Basketball Hall of Fame three times in a storied career as a player and executive, his silhouette is considered to be the basis of the NBA logo. Willie Mays ...

June 28: Orlando Cepeda Mays wasn’t the only groundbreaking Giants legend to die this year. One of baseball’s first great Puerto Rican players, Cepeda rose from humble origins to stardom while ...

Other noteworthy sports figures who died include: basketball players Jerry West and Dikembe Mutombo; baseball players Willie Mays and Fernando Valenzuela; and gymnastics coach Bela Karolyi.

Character: the inaugural Roberto Clemente Award winner. It’s easy to call Mays the greatest two-way player ever, but you can also probably remove the “two-way” from that. Mays wasn’t the ...

It was the summer of 1969, and Jerry West couldn’t sleep. He was one of the greatest basketball players on Earth, an athlete ...