Maury Wills(1932-2022)
- Actor
Maury Wills was a star football quarterback and baseball pitcher for
Cardozo High School (Washington, D.C.), and was signed to a contract by
the National League Brooklyn (later Los Angeles) Dodgers in 1950. He
batted both right- and left-handed and threw right-handed. He played
for their minor league teams (1951-59) as a second baseman before he
was called up to the parent club in 1959, where he played shortstop
until he was traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates (1967-68) and drafted in
the expansion of the league by the Montreal Expos (1969). He was traded
back to the Dodgers in that year and played with them until his
retirement in 1972
