1. The correct name of my person is Willie Howard Mays Jr.
             2. His nickname was "The Say Hey Kid".
             4. He was born in Westfield, Alabama., just outside the major city of Birmingham.
             5. The names of his parents were not known, but his father's nickname was "Kitty Kat".
             6. He was the oldest of twelve in his family.
             7. The name of the town he lived in as a child was called Westfield.
             8. Both Mr. and Mrs. Mays were athletic. Mr. Mays played baseball on the all-black teams of the segregated south, as had his father before him. Mrs. Mays had been a champion sprinter in her school. When he was growing up, his father worked in a steel mill, and played on a semi-professional team sponsored by the mill. He began teaching young Mays to catch a ball even before he could walk. By 14, he had joined his father on the mill team.
             9. His high school had no baseball team, so he played basketball and football, but before he finished high school, it became clear that baseball would be his career.
             11. He graduated high school in 1950. No information given on the name of the school.
             15. This promising career of a professional baseball player was briefly interrupted when Mays was drafted into the Army. His team failed to win the pennant during the two seasons he was absent, but he returned to the Giants in 1954 to lead them into the World Series against the Cleveland Indians. Other than that he never had to work.
             16. He lived in many different areas, because he played baseball. Westfield, near Birmingham was the place where he grew up in Alabama. He was moved from Trenton, New Jersey to New York City also. Mays had traveled from Chattanooga, Memphis, and had been through all parts of the country. In New York, he had played with the New York Cubans. Mr. Mays had played against Philadelphia
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