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Maury Wills

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Maury Wills was a star football quarterback and baseball pitcher for Cardozo High School (Washington, D.C.), and was signed to a contract by the National League Brooklyn (later Los Angeles) Dodgers in 1950. He batted both right- and left-handed and threw right-handed. He played for their minor league teams (1951-59) as a second baseman before he was called up to the parent club in 1959, where he played shortstop until he was traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates (1967-68) and drafted in the expansion of the league by the Montreal Expos (1969). He was traded back to the Dodgers in that year and played with them until his retirement in 1972
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Broke Ty Cobb's single season record for stolen bases (96) in 1962 with 104 steals and won the National League's Most Valuable Player award.
Member of 1959, 1963 and 1965 World Series Champion Los Angeles Dodgers teams. Member of 1966 National League Champion Los Angeles Dodgers team.
MVP of 1962 MLB All-Star Game.
1962 National League MVP for playing in all 165 Games and leading League in At Bats (695), Triples (10), Stolen Bases (104) and Singles (179). Also had 130 Runs, 208 Hits, 13 Doubles, 6 Home Runs, 48 RBI, 51 Walks, .299 Batting Average, .347 On-base percentage, .373 Slugging Percentage, 259 Total Bases, 7 Sacrifice Hits, 4 Sacrifice Flies and 1 Intentional Walk. The reason there were 165 games in his 1962 season is because both the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Francisco Giants ended the 1962 season with identical win-loss records of 101-61. So there was a special 3 game series set-up at the conclusion of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1962 regular season to determine the winner of the National League (NL) pennant.
Los Angeles Dodgers All-Time Stolen Base Leader (490).

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