Mays

HAGERSTOWN, Md. — On June 23, 1950, a 19-year-old Negro Leagues standout named Willie Mays skipped his high school prom and boarded a train for Maryland. The next day, in the former slave-trading stronghold of Hagerstown, Mays would make…

Mays hit 52 home runs in 1965, joining Ruth, Jimmie Foxx, Ralph Kiner and Mantle as the only players at that time to have hit at least 50 in a single season more than once. On May 4, 1966, Mays surpassed the National League record for…

Two weeks ago, an epic display of auroras danced across the night sky from the United States to Jamaica to South Africa. Now, space scientists are saying the solar storm event was the most impressive in decades and, by some measures,…

10 May 2024, Brandenburg, Falkenhagen: Light green and slightly reddish auroras glow in the night ... sky in the district of Märkisch-Oderland in East Brandenburg. The northern lights (aurora borealis) are produced by a cloud of…