Maury Wills didn’t bring any notes to the podium. He doesn’t need notes to recall the story of how he signed his first contract with the Dodgers at age 17 — whether he’s giving a tour of Dodger Stadium or speaking before a thousand people at the Professional Baseball Scouts Foundation banquet like he was Saturday.
Wills, who received the PBSF’s Player Lifetime Achievement Award, is 83 years young and weeks away from re-joining the Dodgers in spring training as a coach.
He still remembers the day that a Brooklyn Dodgers scout, Rex Bowen, was impressed enough by his performance at a baseball camp to sign him out of high school in Washington, D.