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Maurice Morning Wills (October 2, 1932 – September 19, 2022) was an American professional baseball player and manager.He played in Major League Baseball as a shortstop from 1959 to 1972, most prominently as an integral member of the Los Angeles Dodgers teams that won three World Series titles between 1959 and 1965.
In the modern era, Ty Cobb set a single-season mark of 96 stolen bases in 1915 [27] that lasted until it was broken by Maury Wills with 104 in 1962. A new modern mark was set by Lou Brock with 118 in 1974, and again by Rickey Henderson with 130 in 1982. Henderson and Vince Coleman are the only players to record three 100-steal seasons in the ...
Maury Wills was the National League Most Valuable Player (MVP) in 1962, stealing a new single-season topping 104 bases in those record 165 games to break the old modern mark of 96, set by Ty Cobb in 156 games in 1915.
Wills revived the stolen base as a baseball strategy after breaking Ty Cobb's single-season record in 1962 Maury Wills, Base-Stealing Machine for Los Angeles Dodgers’ World Series Teams, Dies at ...
Maury Wills, who revolutionized ... Willie Mays for the league’s most-valuable-player award in 1962, when he mesmerized the baseball world by setting a record with 104 stolen bases, eclipsing ...
Sep. 21—Maury Wills, a record-setting base stealer with Los Angeles Dodgers, Spokane Indians Rim of Honor recipient and Seattle Mariners manager, died at the age of 89, the Dodgers announced on ...
The winner of the MVP was Davis's teammate Maury Wills, who set the all-time Dodger record of 104 stolen bases. This was also a major league season record until it was broken in 1974 by Lou Brock. Wills also led the league in playing in all 165 of the Dodgers' games (including their three-game playoff with the Giants) and with 695 at-bats. The ...
However, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, base-stealing was brought back to prominence primarily by Luis Aparicio and Maury Wills, who broke Cobb's modern single-season record by stealing 104 bases in 1962. Wills’ record was broken in turn by Lou Brock in 1974 and Rickey Henderson in 1982.