If you haven’t had enough yet, we continue with our series on the professional baseball teams and players who played in the Tampa Bay area before the start of the Rays. There may not have been a major league team in the area, but there have always been...

Baseball Commissioner Ford C. Frick handed Walter O’ Malley a sacred and quite large key to Dodger Stadium in ceremonious fashion before play commenced. Shortstop Maury Wills commented on the new digs: “It’s the most gorgeous thing I’ve seen in my life.

If I had scoured Buscaino's website more carefully, I need not have wondered; All-time Dodger great Maury Wills is indeed a Buscaino backer, as you can see in the video above of him making calls on the candidate's behalf. I first encountered Wills (in...

We have that in common, because that's what I know best -- helping individual players, the team and everyone in the community of Los Angeles become winners." The prestigious Dinner Committee includes former Dodger greats Eric Karros and Maury Wills,...

First, he did well with the BBWAA, peaking with 43.1 percent of the vote. Here is a list of the best showings ever by candidates neither in Cooperstown nor currently on the BBWAA ballot: Name Top % Gil Hodges 63.4% Tony Oliva 47.3% Ron Santo 43.1%...

...1971: Joe Torre, St. Louis; 1970: Johnny Bench, Cincinnati.1969: Willie McCovey, San Francisco; 1968: Bob Gibson, St. Louis; 1967: Orlando Cepeda*, St. Louis; 1966: Roberto Clemente, Pittsburgh; 1965: Willie Mays, San Francisco; 1964: Ken Boyer, St. Louis;...