Wills' 97th stolen base had occurred after his team had played its 154th game; as a result, Commissioner Ford Frick ruled that Wills' 104-steal season and Cobb's 96-steal season of 1915 were separate records, just as he had the year before (the American League had also increased its number of games played per team to 162) after Roger Maris had broken Babe Ruth's single season home run record. So, just kind of trotting out on to the field that night, I was thinking about him. It ran for five years on CBS and paid her legal bills as she fought her late husband's business partners to recover her losses. In the 1967 season, he played in 149 games while having 186 hits, 29 stolen bases (his lowest since having 35 in 1961) and 45 RBIs for a .302 batting average. Most days she just wants to be left alone. “And, yes, we were lovers.” 16 The two met at Dodger Stadium and began dating, according to Wills. Twenty-four hours later he was back at second base. This gave him a career record of 26-56 for a winning percentage of .317, one of the worst ever for a non-interim manager. In 104 games, he hit safely 129 times while stealing 25 bases for a .297 batting average. 1972 was his final season, and Wills played 71 games for 17 hits and one stolen base and a .129 batting average. From 2008: Doris Day, the "Girl Next Door", Doris Day in a scene from the 1955 musical "Love Me or Leave Me. [26] He wrote in his autobiography, "In 3 1/2 years, I spent more than $1 million of my own money on cocaine. [5], Wills was born in Washington, D.C. Maurice, or Sonny as he was called at Cardozo Senior High School in Washington, first showed up as an All City pitcher in the local Washington Daily News. [28] The Dodgers organization paid for a drug treatment program, but Wills walked out and continued to use drugs until he began a relationship with Angela George, who encouraged him to begin a vitamin therapy program. Despite offers she never took on another TV show until 1985 when she agreed to a cable show devoted to pets. While playing for the Dodgers, Wills was a Gold Glove Award winner in 1961 and 1962, and was named a NL All-Star five times (5 seasons); selected seven times for the All-Star Game (2 games were played in 1961 and 1962). [8] He would play just 47 games for the team, getting 42 hits and 15 stolen bases on a .222 batting average. ", "Maury Wills - Crawdad Hole / Bye-Bye Blues - Glad-Hamp - USA - GH 2009", "Maury Wills Hits Home Run in Bow as Pitt Nitery Op. Cabaret singer Mary Cleere Haran created a one woman show dedicated to the songs of Doris Day. On her birthday a local radio station plays the songs she made famous...and Doris and her alter ego, Clara call in to say thanks. In the 1965 World Series, he played in all seven games and went 11-for-30 with three runs and three stolen bases in a hard-fought Dodger victory, his third and last World Series title. As far as a guy who put in some real time (as a manager), I don't think there's been anyone close to Wills.". Go! Baseball writer Rob Neyer, in his Big Book of Baseball Blunders, criticized Wills for "the variety and frequency of [his] mistakes" as manager, calling them "unparalleled." The most celebrated incident of Wills' tenure as manager occurred on April 25, 1981. The San Francisco Giants allegedly offered him a one-year deal, but Wills turned them down. He also managed in the Mexican Pacific League—a winter league—for four seasons, during which time he led the Naranjeros de Hermosillo to the 1970–71 season league championship. In 2009, Wills was honored by the city of Washington, D.C. and Cardozo Senior High School with the naming of the former Banneker Recreation Field in his honor. Behind-the-scenes for 17 years of her life was Marty Melcher, agent and husband number three. While Wills had broken Cobb's single season stolen base record in 1962, the National League had increased its number of games played per team that year from 154 to 162. Her second abandoned her. In the wake of his record-breaking season, Wills' stolen base totals dropped precipitously. Maury Wills is a 87 year old American Baseballer born on 2nd October, 1932 in Washington, DC. Wills batted first in the lineup for the inaugural game of the Expos on April 8, 1969. [31] The field was completely renovated and serves as Cardozo's home diamond. Eventually she won some of it back: "I just knew that justice would prevail," Day said at the time. During a search of the car, police found a vial allegedly containing .06 grams of cocaine and a water pipe. In Wills' first-full season in 1960, he hit .295 and led the league with 50 stolen bases, being the first National League player to steal 50 bases since Max Carey stole 51 in 1923. He called for a relief pitcher although there was nobody warming up in the bullpen, held up another game for 10 minutes while looking for a pinch-hitter and even left a spring-training game in the sixth inning to fly to California. "Because that's the real me. And the other side of my brain is saying, 'You're going to get thrown out, don't get thrown out.' He ordered the Mariners' grounds crew to make the batter's boxes one foot longer than regulation. "She spends time making food for the animals. Wills was well known as an abuser of alcohol and cocaine until getting sober in 1989. On October 14, 1968, he was drafted by the Montreal Expos from the Pirates as the 21st pick in the expansion draft. Also I heard that she had relationship with Sly Stone of the famous R&B Group Sly and the Family Stone. Right had gone very wrong. [9] On October 24, 1972, he was released by the Dodgers. The United States Tax Court supported the Commissioner and the tax case was brought up to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit where the decision was subsequently affirmed by it. 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On May 8, 1950, in a game against Phelps, Wills threw a one-hitter and struck out seventeen. I have heard that Doris Day had a long affair with Baseball legend Maury Wills, which was taboo back in the sixties, because he was black and she was white. 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MLB held two All-Star Games from 1959 through 1962. After receiving the Hickok Belt in 1962, Wills was determined by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue to have deficiencies in reported income and awards deductions. Though he continued to frighten pitchers once on base, he stole only 40 bases in 1963 and 53 bases in 1964. And her leading men came from the "A-list" of the day, says Kaufman, whose new unauthorized biography "Doris Day, The Untold Story Of The Girl Next Door," was released in June. However, the aforementioned Julio Cruz, himself an accomplished base stealer, credited Wills for teaching him how to steal second base against a left-handed pitcher. Under questioning from Kunkel, the Mariners' head groundskeeper admitted Wills had ordered the change. "'Calamity Jane' (was) probably my favorite movie," Day said in the interview. "Well, her first big hit was 'Sentimental Journey' which she recorded at the very end of the Second World War," Kaufman said. Copyright © 2020 CBS Interactive Inc.All rights reserved. After leading Seattle to a 20–38 mark to end the 1980 season, new owner George Argyros fired Wills on May 6, 1981 with the M's deep in last place at 6-18. Day made the money and by accident or design Marty squandered it all. "The only thing she ever really wanted was to have a happy marriage and a happy family life," Kaufman said. But Doris Day's reality, like that of that long ago America, was more complex and in some ways darker than the bubbling, everything's coming up roses public image. Wills claimed he was trying to help his players stay in the box. Her first husband beat her. 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