The base-stealing former NL MVP, who passed away Monday night, also transformed the game. Shouldn’t that merit more Hall of Fame consideration?
It’s fair to say that Maury Wills influenced an entire generation of baseball fans in Southern California., and he, Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale will be remembered as the beating hearts of Dodgers teams that won two World Series and three National League pennants from 1963 through 1966, and could have won a fourth pennant in ’62.
That’s because he stole 104 bases in 117 tries – while playing every game, all 165, and nursing sore legs and hamstrings that were made sorer by each slide on the rock-hard Dodger Stadium infield. He scored 130 runs or 15.8% of the Dodgers’ season total. And in ’65, Wills stole 94 bases and scored 92 runs for a team that finished eighth in the NL and 15th in baseball in runs per game and still won its second World Series in three seasons.
It should be no wonder, then, that so many of us who grew up in that era of limits tend now to intersperse our outbursts of “Get off my lawn” with pleas of, “Why don’t they learn how to bunt?” I think it’s a persuasive argument, anyway. Not many others seem to agree; Wills was passed over again last winter by the Golden Era committee, receiving only three votes from the panel of 16, nine fewer than needed for induction.
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