LOS ANGELES — Maury Wills, who worked hard to achieve stardom with the Los Angeles Dodgers, then worked just as hard to regain dignity and standing within baseball through sobriety, has died, the team announced Tuesday.
Wills died Monday night at his home in Sedona, Ariz. He was 89.
A light-hitting shortstop who spent nearly a decade in the minor leagues, Wills honed his limited skills, studied pitchers’ tendencies and learned to switch-hit, earning a shot with the Dodgers, then helped take them to three World Series titles in four tries while re-introducing base-stealing to baseball as a major offensive weapon.
