Davey Lopes, base-stealing maestro, is dead at 80.

“Good base stealers have an attitude,” Davey Lopes said in 2016. “If the catcher threw me out, I would say, ‘What did I do wrong?’ I would never wonder what he did right.” (Facebook via National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum) By RICHARD SANDOMIR Davey Lopes, an All-Star second baseman for the Los Angeles Dodgers who was one of the most successful base stealers in baseball history, died last Wednesday in Providence, Rhode Island, near where he grew up. He was 80. A spokesperson for the...

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