Michael Mays entered the Fairfield home of his father's youth for the first time since he was a youth. He wants it to be a youth sports center.
Willie Mays' childhood home in Fairfield has fallen into severe disrepair and is hidden by an overgrowth of bushes and trees.A step into his father’s childhood home. For the first time since he was a child.the greatest baseball player ever
He last visited the house in June, the same month, the same month his father died at the age of 93 two days before Major League Baseball celebrated Mays and other Negro League Stars at Rickwood Field. At the oldest ballpark in America where the 17-year-old kid from Westfield, Alabama, a city that no longer exists, made his pro-ball debut.
A clubhouse and more. “Call it a local youth sports resource center,” he says. “It’s where the Mays league will be run from, but at the same time, you can come here and find out about the football program, basketball programs. It’s a community sports center.”
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