“The Eyes of Willie McGee: A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in the Jim Crow South” By Alex Heard Harper, 416 pages, $26.99 What begets a work like ‘The Eyes of Willie McGee,&#8… ...

He led the league in humble. Every year. Willie McGee, the great Cardinal, was just the most-humble player in baseball. It's almost like he's so humble, fans forget how good ...

Willie McGee is set to step down as St. Vincent-St. Mary Athletic Director in July to take a job with the LeBron James Family Foundation.

As the second half of the Triple-A International League schedule is well underway, the Nashville Sounds are playing sweet music on the diamond. The post Nashville Sounds: MiLB Brewers In 1st Half ...

What’s the biggest snub in New York Mets history? Is it Keith Hernandez’s lack of presence in the Hall of Fame? Tom Seaver as the 1971 Cy Young winner? Plenty o ...

There’s a photo I can’t wait to see every year when spring training begins for the St. Louis Cardinals. At some point, Willie McGee and Ozzie Smith will stand together by a batting cage and ...

The Eyes of Willie McGee A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in the Jim Crow South Alex Heard Harper: 404 pp., $26.99 In Jim Crow’s dark closet, countless skeletons lie moldering and forgotten ...

In 1945 in Laurel, Mississippi, a black man named Willie McGee was accused of raping a white woman named Willette Hawkins. Despite inconsistencies in the trial testimony that suggested that ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo–Willie McGee helped lead the St Louis Cardinals to the 1982 World Series Championship. And Wednesday night he was helping out the Missouri State baseball Bears. The iconic St … ...

To Communists all over the world, “the case of Willie McGee” had become surefire propaganda, good for whipping up racial tension at home and giving U.S. justice a black eye abroad. Stirred up ...

McGee might not belong in your Hall of Fame, but the former Cardinals fan favorite is the crown jewel of mine.

Heard, a Mississippi native, does a deft job of untangling the Magnolia State's snarled web of race, sex and politics in the tragic tale of Willie McGee. In the end, however, the truth about McGee ...