You Never Heard of Willie Mays?! [Paperback]

Many believe baseball great Willie Mays to be the best player that ever lived. He hit 660 home runs (fourth best of all time), had a lifetime batting average of .302, and is second only to Babe Ruth onThe Sporting News's list of Baseball's 100 Greatest Players.

In Jonah Winter and Terry Widener's fascinating picture book biography, young readers can follow Mays's unparalleled career from growing up in Birmingham, Alabama, to playing awe-inspiring ball in the Negro Leagues and then the Majors, where he was center fielder for the New York (later San Francisco) Giants. Complete with sidebars filled with stats, here is a book for all baseball lovers, young and old.

The Say Hey Kid had style to spare, and so does this irrepressible book. —Booklist, Starred

“Winter’s heartfelt, accessible text is infused with immediacy and enthusiasm…. Magnificent biography.”  —The New York Times Book Review

Starred Review,The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, February 2013:
“Even adults who are indifferent to baseball will likely be so drawn into Mays’ story and Winter’s rousing text that they’ll want to gather up a crowd just to read this one aloud.”

Starred Review,Publishers Weekly, December 3, 2012:
“A must-have for baseball fans.”

Starred Review,Kirkus Reviews, December 1, 2012:
“An all-star gem to share with grandparents, parents, children, baseball fans and anyone else.”

Starred Review,Booklist, September 1, 2012:
“The Say Hey Kid had style to spare, and so does this irrepressible book.”Jonah Winter and Terry Widener collaborated on one previous picture book,Steel Town.Jonah is also the author ofYou Never Heard of Sandy Koufax?!, which received three starred reviews;Here Comes the Garbage Barge!, alC6