Wes Parker

Wes Parker

Infobox MLB retired
name=Wes Parker


position=First baseman
bats=Switch
throws=Left
birthdate=birth date and age|1939|11|13
city-state|Evanston|Illinois
debutdate=April 19
debutyear=by|1964
debutteam=Los Angeles Dodgers
finaldate=October 1
finalyear=by|1972
finalteam=Los Angeles Dodgers
stat1label=Batting average
stat1value=.267
stat2label=Hits
stat2value=1,110
stat3label=Runs batted in
stat3value=470
teams=
* Los Angeles Dodgers (by|1964-by|1972)
highlights=
* 6x Gold Glove Award winner (1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972)
* World Series champion (1965)
* 1972 Lou Gehrig Memorial Award

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 by|1964 to 1972.

Parker batted a career high of .319 in 1970, and won the National League Gold Glove Award award for first base every year from by|1967 to by|1972. He was also part of the by|1965 Dodgers World Series team. Parker was a Cincinnati Reds broadcaster in by|1973.

On August 21, 2007, Parker was named to the Major League Baseball All-time Gold Glove Team, and is the only eligible member of the team who is not in the Baseball Hall of Fame. [http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07234/811341-63.stm]

In 1972, Parker retired from the Major League Baseball and played in a Japanese professional baseball team in 1974, which was his last year of baseball career. After the retirement, Wes Parker became an actor and participated in a number of movies. [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0662696/]

He appeared in episode #17 of The Brady Bunch, "The Undergraduate" (1/23/70), as the boyfriend of Greg Brady's math teacher, on whom Greg has a such a huge crush that he is distracted in his studies. Parker promises Greg two tickets to Opening Day if he scores an "A" on the next test.

On a personal note, it was widely believed that Wes Parker was briefly married at one point, but this has never been confirmed. Parker did have a son in 1967, Tyrone Devoe, from a relationship he had with an acting coach and Broadway actress Patricia Randall, but has never been present in his life.

ee also

* List of Major League Baseball doubles champions

External links

*baseball-reference|id=p/parkewe01


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