Wes Parker

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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.

Parker batted a career high of .319 in 1970, 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. Parker was a Cincinnati Reds broadcaster in 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.[1]

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.[2]

Parker was one of relatively few non-pitchers in MLB history who switch-hit while throwing left-handed.

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.

[edit] See also

• List of Major League Baseball doubles champions

[edit] External links

• Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference

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