[doug from upland]

The most exciting times at Dodger stadium were easily the times when Maurice Morning Wills, Maury Wills, was in his base-stealing prime. One year he stole 104 bases. I think it was 1962 when we lost to the Giants in a playoff. He would get on base and 50,000 would chant "Go, go, go." The stadium rocked and the pitcher was really rocked. He was caught less that 10 times as I remember. It got so bad and was so painful to slide so many times that he had to go to a hypnotist to overcome the problem.

[pariah]

One year he stole 104 bases.

Breaking Ty Cobb's 'unbreakable' record of 96. Wills changed the entire face of baseball by reviving the running game, but gets absolutely no credit for it, as far as I can see. Too bad he will be remembered as somebody who got lost in the world of drugs...