 As a big leaguer, he batted .221 with 136 career hits (14 doubles, five triples and 14 home runs).He died in Durham, North Carolina, at age 64 in 1977.Years after he left baseball, however, Maynard would be remembered in a story often told by Tommy Lasorda, the Baseball Hall of Fame manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers, to his players at spring training.