Willie May's Life And Accomplishments

Willie Mays was born on May 6, 1931, and at the time black and white people were separated.Willie Mays was a professional baseball player. He was first exposed to baseball at the age of six months. He started off “playing’’ with his dad, which turned into practice. Winter wrote in his book Willie Mays, “William Howard’s father took two chairs and lined them next to each other. He places a baseball on one of them. His father asked, “See the ball? See it?”(AUTHOR’S LAST NAME AND PAGE) Willie would make an effort to try and reach the top the chair where the baseball was. After latching on to the ball, he would crawl/ waddle to his father and repeat. They sometimes go hours on end doing this. So as Willie grew, he came to the realization that becoming a professional baseball player was his dream. However, that dream almost disappeared when he learned he couldn’t because of segregation. That never stopped him, but instead encouraged him. He was so good at baseball that his friends urged him to try out for the best Negro League team the Black Barons. When he tried out and made it and as he was getting used to the team, he meet the manager Piper Davis who was like a father figure to him. After all, they did spend a lot of time together so becoming friends was natural. …show more content…
When Willie turned nineteen, Jackie Robinson had broken the color barrier in baseball. As people from the Negro Leagues were chosen to go many places Willie wondered what would happen the Negro League after most of the players were picked. Soon his question was answered the Negro league end. Willie was picked to play in Sioux City, Iowa, on the Giants' Class A team, but was shortly removed because of racial problems( his skin color). On the other, he was transformed into a Trenton, New Jersey, to play in a Class B Interstate