Former Las Angeles Dodgers base-stealing great Maury Wills, left, and a young Brady Exber, center, had a lifelong friendship that began when Exber’s dad, Mel, and the former Dodger captain became friends. Wills, who died Monday at age 89, gave the spikes in which he stole a baseball record 104 bases in 1962 to Mel Exber, who had them bronzed and put on display at the old Las Vegas Club in downtown Las Vegas that Exber founded. (Brady Exber).