Thirty-seven of them were hit in the Coliseum. Wally Moon hit a total of 49 home runs between 19. They were called Moon-shots by the media, and they soon became part of the Dodger baseball lexicon. Moon, a lefty, knew his future wasn't toward right field, so he invented the cleverly efficient inside-out stroke that allowed him to hit pop flies over the short left field scree. Right field was death on left-handed hitters. Moon led all Dodger position players in bWAR, with 5.5, and helped cement the status of a franchise.
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Louis Cardinals, beginning in 1954 when he was named the National League Rookie of the Year. Wally Moon also made Buzzie Bavasi a prophet, as the Dodgers went from finishing next-to-last in the National League in '58 to winning their first World Series in Los Angeles in '59, due in large part to their star left fielder's stellar season. Moon was 24 years old when he broke into the big leagues on April 13, 1954, with the St. He batted left-handed and threw right-handed.
Louis Cardinals (19541958) and Los Angeles Dodgers (19591965). Wally Moon, the wiry outfielder with the old-school crew cut who helped take the Dodgers to the World Series three times and became a crowd favorite for his towering Moon shots, has died. Moon played his 12-year career in the major leagues for the St.
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Moon spent the first five seasons of his Major League career with the St. Wally Moon was born on Thursday, April 3, 1930, in Bay, Arkansas. Wally Moon Wallace Wade Moon 1 (Ap February 9, 2018) was an American professional baseball outfielder in Major League Baseball. The right center field fence was 440 feet from the plate, while deep center field was 420 feet away. Wally Moon, an All-Star outfielder for the Dodgers in 1959 whose Moonshot home runs at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum became legend, passed away on Friday. Although the right-field foul pole was only 301 feet from the plate, the field opened up rapidly, to a cavernous 390 feet, just 15 feet inside the foul pole. in the infamous Coliseum, with its 250-foot left-field wall surmounted by a 40-foot-high screen. Baseball player Wally Moon profile: Wally Moons birthday is on April 3rd 1930 in Arkansas,, who was born in Aries, and Chinese Zodiac is The Horse. The native of Bay, Arkansas, played his first three years in L.A. "Wally Moon patrolled the outer garden for Los Angeles for seven years, helping the Alston-men win three World Championship trophies ( 1959, 1963, 1965) along the way.
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