Willie Mays Honor Roll

By JT

Willie Mays

Selected to the Hall of Fame in 1979
Named NL Rookie of the Year by Baseball Writers' Association of America (1951)
Named NL Rookie of the Year by The Sporting News (1951)

Named All-Rookie by The Sporting News (1951)

Player of the Decade for the 1960s by The Sporting News

Named NL Most Valuable Player by Baseball Writers' Association of America (1954, 1965)
Named Major League Player of the Year by The Sporting News (1954)
Named NL Player of the Year by The Sporting News (1954, 1965)

Silver Bat Award (Bud Hillerich Award) (1954)

Sporting News

Named outfielder on The Sporting News Major League All-Star Team (1954 and 1957-60)
Named outfielder on The Sporting News NL All-Star Team (1961-66)

Associated Press

Named outfielder on the Associated Press Major League All-Star Team (1954-55, 1958-60, 1962-66)
Named second-team outfielder on the Associated Press Major League All-Star Team (1956-57, 1961)

(Awards began in 1947)

United Press International

Named outfielder on the UPI Major League All-Star Team (1962-65)
Named second-team outfielder on the UPI Major League All-Star Team (1961, 1966)
Named outfielder on the UPI National League All-Star Team (1955, 1957-60)
Named second-team outfielder on the UPI National League All-Star Team (1956)

(NL team began in 1955, MLB in 1961)

Named All-Star Game Most Valuable Player (1963 and 1968)
Named to the NL All-Star team (1954-73)

Won Major League Gold Glove (1957)
Won NL Gold Glove (1958-68)

Year by Year

Named to a Major League All-Star Team
1954 (AP, TSN)
1955 (AP)
1956 (Second-team AP)
1957 (TSN)
1958 (AP, TSN)
1959 (AP, TSN)
1960 (AP, TSN)
1961 (Second-team AP, UPI)
1962 (AP, UPI)
1963 (AP, UPI)
1964 (AP, UPI)
1965 (AP, UPI)
1966 (AP)

Named to a National League All-Star Team

(UPI began in 1955)
1954 (MLB)
1955 (UPI, MLB)
1956 (Second-team UPI, MLB)
1957 (UPI, MLB-S)
1958 (UPI, MLB-S)
1959 (UPI, MLB-S)
1960 (UPI, MLB-S)
1961 (TSN, MLB-S)
1962 (TSN, MLB-S)
1963 (TSN, MLB-S)
1964 (TSN, MLB-S)
1965 (TSN, MLB-S)
1966 (TSN, MLB-S)
1967 (MLB)
1968 (Second-team TSN, MLB-S)
1969 (MLB)
1970 (MLB-S)
1971 (MLB-S)
1972 (MLB-S)
1973 (MLB) 

Named to the de facto MLB Baseball-Reference WAR All-Star Team
1954 First-team center field (rank 1^st)
1955 Second-team center field (rank 2^nd)
1956 Second-team center field (rank 2^nd-t)  (3^rd incl pitchers)
1957 Second-team center field (rank 2^nd)
1958 First-team center field (rank 1^st)
1959 First-team center field (rank 3^rd)

1960 First-team center field (rank 1^st)

1961 Second-team center field (rank 4^th)

1962 First-team center field (rank 1^st)
1963 First-team center field (rank 1st)  (2^nd incl pitchers)
1964 First-team centerfield (rank 1^st)
1965 First-team center field (rank 1^st)
1966 First-team cente rfield (rank 1^st)  (3^rd-t incl pitchers)
1967
1968 Second-team center field (rank 10^th) (16^th-t incl pitchers)
1969
1970
1971 Second-team center field (10^th) (17^th incl pitchers)
1972

1973
 
 

 
Named to a de facto National League WAR All-Star Team
1954 First-team center field (rank 1^st)
1955 First-team center field (rank 1^st)
1956 First-team center field (rank 1^st-t)
1957 First-team center field (rank 1^st)
1958 First-team center field (rank 1^st)
1959 First-team center field (rank 3^rd)

1960 First-team center field (rank 1^st)
1961 First-team center field (rank 2^nd)

1962 First-team center field (rank 1^st)
1963 First-team center field (rank 1st)  (2^nd incl. pitchers)
1964 First-team center field (rank 1^st)
1965 First-team center field (rank 1^st)
1966 First-team center field (rank 1^st)  (3^rd-t incl. pitchers)
1967
1968 Second-team center field
1969
1970 Second-team center field
1971 First-team center field (rank 3^rd) (6^th incl. pitchers)
1972
1973