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Column: Baseball legend Willie Mays instrumental in California fight against housing discrimination
SACRAMENTO — As a ballplayer, Willie Mays was arguably the greatest of all time — baseball’s GOAT. But he also starred in another endeavor — as an important California civil rights pioneer. Mays never wanted to be an activist about anything off the …