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...beyond these four, now that academic probation has claimed last year's shortstop Jeff Grate -- "you can't imagine how much that hurts." O'Donnell said -- there is no experienced hitting talent...
Some trades might have been honest efforts to improve a ball club. The deal that sent Maury Wills to the Pittsburgh Pirates seemed like spite-but might have been bright. Four years ago, Shortstop Wills set a major-league record by stealing 104 bases, and in the two seasons that he has been team captain of the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Dodgers have won two National League pennants. The most common story was that Wills had angered Owner Walter O'Malley by quitting the Dodgers' post-season tour of Japan. Yet O'Malley is one of baseball...
...Angeles Dodgers surprised everybody yesterday by trading shortstop Maury Wills not to the New York Yankees but to the Pittsburgh Pirates for third baseman Bob Bailey and shortstop Gene Michael...
...beat the Giants 3-1; but against the Atlanta Braves, he gave up six runs in four innings. The Los Angeles Dodgers had all they could do just to show up for a game. In addition to Sandy Koufax and his arthritic pitching arm, the Dodger sick list included Shortstop Maury Wills (damaged knee ligament), Pitcher Don Sutton (pulled arm muscle), and Outfielder Lou Johnson (bruised shoulder...
Injuries have played a part, of course. Pitcher Whitey Ford underwent surgery last month for a blocked artery in his shoulder. Shortstop Ruben Amaro tore his knee ligaments in the first week of the season. Mickey Mantle has missed 42 games with assorted aches and pains, and Roger Maris has been playing for three months with a torn leg muscle so painful that he cannot run out the infield grounders he now hits so consistently. Still, Yankee teams have been hard hit before: the 1949 club, for example, survived a succession of 71 separate injuries and won a pennant...