Maury Wills

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 170 lb

BornOctober 2, 1932 · Washington, DC, USA

MLB debutJune 6, 1959

Final gameOctober 4, 1972

Seasons14 (1959–1972)

Los Angeles Dodgers 1959–1966; Pittsburgh Pirates 1967–1968; Los Angeles Dodgers 1969; Montreal Expos 1969; Los Angeles Dodgers 1970–1972

Percentile snapshot

1971 season — qualified batters

149

654

75.9

601

83.9

53.6

169

83.9

2.7

31.3

14.3

RBI

19.6

25.9

82.1

11.6

.281

67.9

OBP

.323

31.3

SLG

.329

15.2

OPS

.652

16.1

wRC+

92.0

24.1

OPS+

91.5

21.4

wOBA

.306

15.2

sWAR

2.4

38.4

of 113 qualified 1971 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

91.1

OPS+

89.3

21.9

sWAR

28.2

96.2

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.

Season by season

Batting

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1959	83	258	242	27	63	5	2	0	7	13	27	7	3	.260	.298	.298	.596	47.8	55.7	.267	-0.4
1960	148	559	516	75	152	15	2	0	27	35	47	50	12	.295	.342	.331	.673	81.1	82.4	.307	1.3
1961	148	687	613	105	173	12	10	1	31	59	50	35	15	.282	.346	.339	.685	86.5	82.7	.317	1.9
1962	165	759	695	130	208	13	10	6	48	51	57	104	13	.299	.347	.373	.720	99.8	97.7	.331	3.4
1963	134	580	527	83	159	19	3	0	34	44	48	40	19	.302	.355	.349	.704	116.1	111.5	.329	3.8
1964	158	685	630	81	173	15	5	2	34	41	73	53	17	.275	.318	.324	.641	91.2	89.0	.298	2.4
1965	158	710	650	92	186	14	7	0	33	40	64	94	31	.286	.330	.329	.660	96.7	94.6	.306	2.9
1966	143	643	594	60	162	14	2	1	39	34	60	38	24	.273	.314	.308	.622	84.6	82.2	.289	1.7
1967	149	664	616	92	186	12	9	3	45	31	44	29	10	.302	.334	.365	.700	103.3	100.3	.326	2.8
1968	153	685	627	76	174	12	6	0	31	45	57	52	21	.278	.326	.316	.642	99.6	95.2	.308	2.7
1969	151	690	623	80	171	10	8	4	47	59	61	40	21	.274	.337	.335	.673	97.2	94.2	.320	2.9
1970	132	578	522	77	141	19	3	0	34	50	34	28	13	.270	.333	.318	.651	84.2	80.5	.308	1.4
1971	149	654	601	73	169	14	3	3	44	40	44	15	8	.281	.323	.329	.652	92.0	91.5	.306	2.4
1972	71	152	132	16	17	3	1	0	4	10	18	1	1	.129	.190	.167	.357	-1.8	4.2	.179	-1.1

Career totals

1,942

299th-most career G

8,304

233rd-most career PA

7,588

208th-most career AB

1,067

296th-most career R

2,134

222nd-most career H

177

382nd-most career 3B

RBI

458

552

684

586

20th-most career SB

.2812

OBP

.3301

SLG

.3312

OPS

.6613

A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.

Best games

Batting

Date	Game	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1962-05-30	LAD @ NYM Gameday	6	3	4	0	0	2	2	0	10
1969-07-17	LAD @ SF Gameday	6	2	3	0	2	1	4	0	10
1962-07-25	LAD @ STL Gameday	5	3	3	0	1	1	1	0	8
1959-09-15	ATL @ LAD Gameday	5	3	5	0	1	0	1	0	7
1970-08-14	LAD @ CHC Gameday	5	2	5	1	0	0	1	1	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1967-05-11	ATL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1967-05-14	ATL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1967-05-20	PIT @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1967-05-30	HOU @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1967-06-30	ATL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.

Honors

2× Gold Glove1× All-Star Game MVP1× Most Valuable Player5× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.