Word: shortstops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most obvious indication that the team has improved is that Shepard will have his two top pitchers and five of his eight starters back from last year. Gone are shortstop Tom Bilodeau, second baseman Skip Falcone, and catcher Gary Miller, all good defensive players but only fair hitters...
Maury & Mudcat. There were no instant heroes. The Series belonged to the pros, the ballplayers who put their teams there in the first place-and they professed elaborate calm. "I just had an average day," shrugged Dodger Shortstop Maury Wills after the fifth game, in which he stole a base, scored two runs, and rapped out four hits to tie a Series record. "I'm still no Maury Wills " insisted Centerfielder Willie Davis, who stole three bases in one game. "I had a hell of a good time," said Rightfielder Ron Fairly, only...
...pennant would be to wake up. The only man on the club who was batting as high as .290 was a pitcher, and the team's top slugger had hit only 12 home runs all year. (Not counting "Dodger homers," in which, as explained last week by Shortstop Maury Wills: "I get a base on balls, take second on a sacri fice, steal third, and come home on a fly ball.") But just the night before, the Dodgers had won their twelfth straight game, as Sandy Koufax shut out Cincinnati on two hits, 5-0, running his own season...
...Giants' lead to 3½ games over Cincinnati, only two games over the incredible Los Angeles Dodgers, who won their sixth straight in typical Dodger fashion; trailing the Milwaukee Braves 6-1, they fought back to tie the score, won the game in the 11th inning when Shortstop Maury Wills beat out a bunt, stole his third base of the game (and 88th of the season), and scored on Lou Johnson's two-out single...
Born. To Maury Wills, 32, base-stealing Dodger shortstop (84 as of last week), and Gertrude Elliot Wills, 31: their sixth child, fourth daughter; in Spokane, Wash...