Maury Wills

Maury Wills was born on Oct 02, 1932 in USA. Maury Wills's big-screen debut came with The Odd Couple directed by Gene Saks in 1968, strarring Maury Wills (uncredited). Maury Wills is known for The Sandlot directed by David Mickey Evans, Art LaFleur stars as The Babe and Tom Guiry as Scotty Smalls. The upcoming new movie Maury Wills plays is The Sandlot which will be released on Apr 07, 1993.

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