| When I played, little switch-hitting guys like Maury Wills were more popular. |
| Maury doffed his fedora and ran a hand through his scarecrow hair and told me that he had lived in terror as a boy because his father was a drunk. |
| In lieu of a cheap Chinese army slicker that Maury thought too expensive, he bought himself an enormous white plastic gunnysack. |
| To see this dynamic at work, take, for instance, the nineteenth-century earth science of the American naval astronomer and hydrographic innovator Matthew Fontaine Maury. |
| Maury entered the US Navy in 1825, but an accident in 1839 partially disabled him, so he left active sea duty. |
| Out of the darkness to the north came Maury Stafford with a scouting party. |
