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    Bill Plaschke: Maury Wills stole Dodger fans' hearts. Changed the game. Not enough for Hall of Fame.

    by Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times Sep 20, 2022 4 minutes
    Los Angeles Dodgers coach Maury Wills feeds the pitching machine for bunting drills during spring training at Camelback Ranch--Glendale in Phoenix on Feb. 22, 2017.

    LOS ANGELES — He stole bases. He stole championships. He stole a city's heart.

    Yet, for all his accumulated riches, Maury Wills often lamented the one shiny object that was forever out of his reach.

    He couldn't steal his way into Cooperstown. The inventor of the modern stolen base unbelievably couldn't sprint and slide into baseball's Hall of Fame.

    The baseball writers rejected him for 15 consecutive years. The veteran's committee turned him down for 10 more years.

    It hurt and haunted him until his death Monday at age 89.

    "Why won't they let me in the Hall of Fame?" he asked me once during a quiet moment at Dodger Stadium. "What more did I have

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