The first in an occasional series of profiles on once-iconic Southern California athletes who have flourished in their post-playing careers. Maurice Wesley Parker III has been on this earth 85 years.

Willie McCovey doesn’t check any of those boxes. Still, the 1960 Topps rookie card of the San Francisco Giants slugger (#316), which turns 65 in 2025, is in my collection because it was a grail ...

Wills was the son of Dodgers great Maury Wills and was expected to be a star. He was not. Wills had five average-to-good seasons with the Rangers then was unloaded on the Cubs in 1982. He played one ...