 By spring 1947, Willie Mays is Birmingham baseball's worst kept secret. But rather than joining the Black Barons that year, Mays stays put with the Fairfield Gray Sox while still playing the odd game for the choo-choos and starring on the Fairfield industrial football team and going to high school. He's studying dry cleaning. Birmingham historian Bill Plott says there is a mounting air of destiny around Mays' future.