Long before becoming a teenage phenom for the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro American League or a 24-time All-Star in New York and San Francisco, Giants legend Willie Mays was a polite kid from a mining community in .
Raised by his father, Cat Mays, and two aunts, young Willie became a football, basketball and baseball star at Fairfield Industrial High School, where he was a pupil of a young English teacher named Angelena Ray.
'Oh yes, I remember Miss Ray,' a much older Mays later told the teacher's daughter, the 66th Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who repeated the story on X. 'She would say, ''Son, you're going to be a ballplayer, so if you need a little time out of class, you go right ahead and take it.'''
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