Willie’s Time: A Memoir.

EINSTEIN, Charles [Willie Mays].

Item Number: 131504

New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1979.

First edition of Einstein’s anecdotal account of Willie Mays’ unparalleled major league career. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers. Signed by Willie Mays on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Graphic Promotion Associates.

With the flat-out speed and easy grace of Willie chasing a drive to deep center, Einstein deftly replays some of the most dramatic moments Mays spent on the field - from the Miracle Giants of 1951 to 1973's Amazing Mets - providing rich and joyous tidbits of Ruth, DiMaggio, Aaron, Satchel, Paige, and others along the way. Here is the Hall of Famer who owned more individual playing records that any other, the star who was a greater crowd attraction than Babe Ruth, the showman of whom Ted Williams said simply, "They invented the All-Star Game for him."