BREAKING: Legendary Dodger base-stealing wizard Maury Wills died last night at 10:15 p.m. at his home in Sedona, AZ, the team announced. Wills was 89.
Wills, who revolutionized baseball in the 1960s with his base-running exploits, served as a base-running and bunting instructor for the Dodgers' Major League and minor league players for many years during spring training.In 2010, Wills was voted as the fifth-greatest Los Angeles Dodger of all-time by readers of the Los Angeles Times.
Wills first came to Spring Training with the Dodgers in 1951 at age 18 and worked his way up through the farm system, making his Major League debut with Los Angeles on June 6, 1959. He played 14 Major League seasons with the Dodgers, Pirates and Expos and had a career batting average of .281 with 586 stolen bases, the 20th-highest total in Major League history.
Wills played in the minor leagues from 1951 to 1959 and stole 281 bases there before reaching the big leagues with the Dodgers.
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