Maurice Wesley Parker (born November 13, 1939 in Evanston, Illinois) is a former first baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the Los Angeles Dodgers from 1964 to 1972. November 13 is the 317th day of the year (318th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 48 days remaining. ... 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Arch, the main entrance to the Evanston campus of Northwestern University Evanston (elevation 600 ft. ... The position of the first baseman First base, or 1B, is the first of four stations on a baseball diamond which must be touched in succession by a base runner in order to score a run for that players team. ... Major League Baseball (MLB) is the highest level of play in professional baseball in North America. ... The text below is generated by a template, which has been proposed for deletion. ... 1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ...
Parker batted a career high of .319, and won the National League Gold Glove Award award for first base every year from 1967 to 1972. He was also part of the 1965 Dodgers World Series team. In American baseball, the Rawlings Gold Glove Award, usually referred to simply as the Gold Glove, is the award annually given to the Major League player judged to be the most superior individual fielding performance at each position (in each league), as voted by the managers and coaches in each... 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... 1965 was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ...
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Baseball-Reference.com (http://www.baseball-reference.com/p/parkewe01.shtml) - career statistics and analysis
Parker, whom Gammons describes as the most intense wrestler on the team, relishes the weekly scrum with his teammate.
Gammons and Parker may have split their intense weekly practice series down the middle, but against competitors from other schools Natick's dynamic duo was nearly perfect during the regular season, where the team went 20-1 while capturing its 10th Bay State Conference championship in 11 years and its second consecutive Division 2 South sectional title.
Gammons and Parker are hoping their extra work together pays off this weekend at the All-State Meet, where both wrestlers insist they'll need to be at their very best to bring home state titles.
Parker doubled in the second off Mets left-hander Ray Sadecki, homered off Sadecki to lead off the seventh, and singled to lead off the eighth against Cal Koonce before tripling in the 10th against Jim McAndrew.
Parker was a good player for his entire career, but 1970 was the only season in which he was a great player.
Parker's exit left a hole at first base, which was filled in the middle of the 1973 season by Steve Garvey.
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