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The Maury Wills Museum in Fargo, North Dakota, at Newman Outdoor Field, home of the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks, opened in 2001 and closed in 2017 when he retired. [67] [68] Wills died at his home in Sedona, Arizona, on September 19, 2022, at age 89, just two weeks shy of his 90th birthday. [69] [70]
Wills put up excellent numbers in 12 seasons with the Dodgers. His finest season came in 1962, when Wills hit .299/.343/.373, with 104 stolen bases.
Maury Wills, who revolutionized baseball with his ability to steal bases and was the MVP of the National League in 1962 for the Dodgers, has died. Maury Wills, legendary base stealer for Dodgers ...
Wills died Monday night at home in Sedona, Arizona, the team said Tuesday after being informed by family members. Wills played on World Series title teams in 1959, ’63 and ’65 during his first ...
Wills was a poker player and a friend of Benny Binion, the founder of the World Series of Poker and former owner of Binion's Horseshoe Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. Wills participated in the first World Series, held in 1970, and is seated in the center of the picture. [4] In 1959, he starred as Bije Wilcox in "The Bije Wilcox Story" on Wagon Train.
James Robert Wills (March 6, 1905 – May 13, 1975) was an American Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader. Considered by music authorities as the founder of Western swing, [1] [2] [3] he was known widely as the King of Western Swing (although Spade Cooley self-promoted the moniker "King of Western Swing" from 1942 to 1969).
William John Wills was born on 5 January 1834 in Totnes, Devon, England, [1] and he was the second of seven children born to William Wills (died 28 September 1889) and Sarah Mary Elizabeth Wills (née Calley, born 23 December 1800, baptized 12 March 1801 in Totnes, and died 19 February 1880). Wills lived at the family home at Ipplepen in Devon ...
Wills and Grossman divorced, and she married Martin Colbert. [3] [4] [5] On October 24, 1963, Wills died in a house fire with her grandmother, Nina Davis, and both children from her second marriage, sons Guy (age 7) and Larry (age 4) Grossman. The fire started due to the 30-year-old Wills smoking in bed.