Maurice Wesley Parker III was born on November 13,1939 and is a former first baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the Los Angeles Dodgers from 1964 to 1972.
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16 Facts About Wes Parker
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Wes Parker was the last Los Angeles Dodger to accomplish that feat until Orlando Hudson did so against the San Francisco Giants on April 13,2009.
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Wes Parker is the only member of the team who is not in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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Wes Parker is the only Dodger to have received the All-Time Gold Glove Team award.
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Wes Parker said that he enjoyed his interactions with the kids more than he did playing the games for which he was paid.
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The abstention was Wes Parker, who felt a deep appreciation for everything the Dodgers had done for him.
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Wes Parker worked as a television color analyst for the Cincinnati Reds in 1973, then played in Japanese professional baseball in 1974.
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Wes Parker subsequently pursued an acting career, and appeared in a number of television roles in the 1970s.
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Wes Parker eventually gave up acting, saying it did not fit his introverted personality.
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Wes Parker attended Claremont McKenna College, transferred to USC, and graduated from USC with a B A in history.
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Wes Parker served as a voice of faith for the ministry of television preacher Dr Gene Scott.
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Wes Parker explained that it was Scott's intelligent and fact-based approach to teaching that earned his respect and allowed him to build faith.
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Wes Parker stated that his earlier exposures to Christianity had no effect, because they were mostly based on simplistic platitudes such as "God is love" which he found unconvincing.
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