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  Don Wilson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Don_Wilson   (180 words)

  
 Current Biography Excerpts: Baseball
Since becoming an everyday player in 1983, his second season in the majors, Boggs has averaged 101 walks per year, and his career on-base percentage (the frequency with which a batter reaches base via hit, walk, or being hit by the pitch) is an astounding.437.
Strictly a baseball player for one season, Jackson stunned the sports world in 1987 by signing a five-year contract with the Los Angeles Raiders of the NFL, announcing that he intended to play pro football in the fall while continuing to play baseball in the spring and summer.
In one of the most lopsided trades in the history of professional baseball, in 1982 the Phillies sent the veteran Larry Bowa and the young prospect Sandberg, whose future was thought to be limited to duties as a utility infielder, to the Chicago Cubs in exchange for a young shortstop.
www.hwwilson.com /currentbio/baseball.html   (8554 words)

  
 Don Wilson Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac
Don Wilson was born on Monday, February 12, 1945, in Monroe, Louisiana.
Wilson was 21 years old when he broke into the big leagues on September 29, 1966, with the Houston Astros.
His biographical data, year-by-year hitting stats, fielding stats, pitching stats (where applicable), career totals, uniform numbers, salary data and miscellaneous items-of-interest are presented by Baseball Almanac on this comprehensive Don Wilson baseball stats page.
www.baseball-almanac.com /players/player.php?p=wilsodo01   (306 words)

  
 Lindsey Wilson College
Former men's soccer player Leighton Main and former baseball player Ray Torres were inducted into the Hall of Fame at a Saturday night ceremony at Roberta D. Cranmer Dining & Conference Center.
Torres was the first former Lindsey Wilson baseball player to be inducted into the Hall of Fame.
While at Lindsey Wilson, Torres was the second Blue Raider to be named an NAIA first-team All-American in baseball.
www.lindsey.edu /index.cgi?id=12730   (551 words)

  
 AaronGleeman.com
On a semi-unrelated note: I think Prior and Mark Teixeira will be two of the best players of their generation and they were both taken after the Twins selected Joe Mauer with the #1 pick in the 2001 draft.
Wilson is also a great defensive player and he's still only 25 years old, so he's got a chance to make himself a useful hitter yet.
According to Baseball Prospectus' "Runs Above Replacement Level," he was the best shortstop in the National League and the 5th best in all of baseball (behind the big 4 in the AL).
www.aarongleeman.com /2003/03/aarons-baseball-blog-2003-season_29.html   (4564 words)

  
 Don Wilson - Statistics - The Baseball Cube   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
A player with a centile of 15 means that 15% of the players have a higher salary.
A glut of players will be making the minimum and so it is unfair to represent some of these players within the range of 80 to 100 when they all earn the same.
The true formula of the centile is to count the number of players with a posted salary during the season and divide by 100.
www.thebaseballcube.com /players/W/don-wilson.shtml   (1066 words)

  
 CSRA Crusaders Baseball
Wilson as a toddler would hang out while his mother began lessons with his sister.
He is an avid baseball player and longtime Fermata Club swimmer.
Wilson is considering a career as a systems engineer, but after finishing his undergraduate work, he hopes to train as a Navy Seal while fulfilling his military obligation.
home.comcast.net /~crusadersbaseball/wilsonmiles.htm   (506 words)

  
 Honolulu Star-Bulletin Sports /2005/03/30/
Wilson slugged five home runs in Saint Louis' first five preseason games this year and has kept his hot bat going for the ILH season.
Wilson is the latest in a long line of recent Crusader baseball standouts.
Wilson looks to continue his career, but is more immediately concerned with the Crusaders' play.
starbulletin.com /2005/03/30/sports/story2.html   (1296 words)

  
 ESPN.com - Mays was Mr. Everything
When the Giants moved to San Francisco in 1959, I was a high school baseball player in Oakland and went to Seals Stadium to watch them play.
I have seen players hit game-tying home runs in the ninth inning, but they never looked like hitting a home run was their goal.
On the baseball field, he always looked like he was having fun because you could see the joy on his face.
sports.espn.go.com /espn/print?id=1191373&type=columnist   (1382 words)

  
 Stats Geek: Pirates should wait before signing Jack Wilson to long-term deal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Wilson also leads the league in triples, is sixth in batting average and tied for ninth in total bases.
Wilson is not merely slapping singles like the second coming of Matty Alou, he's rattling some walls.
Wilson hit above.300 his first two seasons in the low minors and was hitting.294 (with a.368 OBA and.452 slugging percentage) in Class AA when he was traded to the Pirates in 2000.
www.post-gazette.com /pg/04195/345514.stm   (697 words)

  
 ESPN.com: MLB - September 2001 Archives
Incidentally, though the war ended in 1918, the baseball owners cut back the 1919 schedule by 14 games because they feared that the public wouldn't yet be interested in so trivial a pursuit as "base ball" (as it was known then).
Baseball is not a totem feast or a mechanics laboratory or a microcosmic subculture, but it is more than just another form of entertainment.
Baseball comes to us in the spring, when we all need healing and new life, and it reminds us of a green time in our lives.
espn.go.com /mlb/s/2001/0905/1248204.html   (9660 words)

  
 BIOPROJ.SABR.ORG :: The Baseball Biography Project.
Trading for a slugger and turning him into a line drive hitter is somewhat analogous to trading for a player and converting him to a different position: for the strategy to fully succeed, the player has to have the right attitude about it.
The duo was one of baseball's first pair of interracial roommates, the first with a team based in the south.
You could argue that Blefary played the most significant role in integrating the game of any white player in baseball history, but the case is hard to make simply because his role has been so minimally documented.
bioproj.sabr.org /bioproj.cfm?a=v&v=l&pid=1179&bid=88   (5284 words)

  
 Baseball Toaster : Bronx Banter : Splitting the Difference
The right-handed Wilson has 235 career innings in the major leagues and a 5.35 ERA to go with them, so there's a good deal of wishful thinking going on here, but one thing he's always had has been excellent control.
Wilson looked pretty sharp there, his curve had a lot of bite on it.
But taking a snapshot of 2004, it was inconceivable that the Yankees would turn their backs on RJ and Pavano completely...it just wasn't the culture of the organization to show that kind of restraint.
bronxbanter.baseballtoaster.com /archives/423273.html   (5805 words)

  
 Houston Astros
In the wacky, strike-shortened 1972 season the 'Stros finished a surprising second, due in large part to the efforts of pitchers Don Wilson and Larry Dierker, and everyday players Lee May, Doug Rader, Jimmy Wynn, Bob Watson, and Cesar Cedeno.
The first part of the 1980s were disappointing as talented players Jose Cruz, Dickie Thon, and Bill Doran failed to push the team over the top.
Dierker resigned after complaining that modern players were "too hard to motivate." The Astros skipper retired as the most successful in Houston history, winning four division titles and 55% of his games in five years.
www.thebaseballpage.com /present/fp/nl/hou.htm   (928 words)

  
 USATODAY.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Craig Wilson: Well, there's an old saying that says something like, "I would have written you a shorter letter, but I didn't have the time." Writing short and crisp is hard.
Dallas, TX: I know that symphony players have to support their families, but scrabbling for more money because they play more of the time is so artless.
Craig Wilson: I chatted with his aunt shortly after that column ran, but haven't talked to anyone in the family in a few years.
cgi1.usatoday.com /mchat/20040408001/tscript.htm   (3690 words)

  
 WILSONDAILY.COM
John Lancaster carried the nicknames of Sponk, Chops and, later in college, L.A. Don Wilson was known by his close friends as Gonder, a play on the name of major league baseball player Jesse Gonder, as Don's first name was Jesse.
Auriol Carnahan, a baseball teammate of mine, became Wes Carnahan when his wife said she preferred being married to a Wes instead of an Auriol.
Although not directly related to nicknames, fellow Daily Times employee Billie Taylor is the wife of Billy Taylor, a situation which must have made for some interesting encounters during their 40-year marriage.
www.wilsondaily.com /LIfe/Family/284294170135338.php   (423 words)

  
 The New York Times Strikes Out: Barry Bonds, Race, and Mr. Subliminal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Grann emphasizes the business-like nature of today's baseball, to disguise his thinly-veiled belief, from the Harry Edwards school of racist, sports sociology, that it would demean fl stars to entertain the (predominantly white) paying fans — even though Grann quotes a contradictory statement by Bonds, emphasizing that baseball is entertainment.
I understand well enough why people might prefer to think less of Barry Bonds as a baseball player - it is, one admits, very difficult to accept that a man who is too often a petulant jerk is also close enough to being the greatest baseball player of at least his generation.
But no few of the greatest players the game has ever known were men whom you might otherwise dismiss as self-centered louts no matter how they did or didn't play in a pennant race or in the World Series.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/743885/posts   (8250 words)

  
 Enrique Wilson MLB Baseball at CBS SportsLine.com
Player Profile · Situational Stats · Game Log · Other 2B · BOS Roster
The Boston Herald reports that Wilson is willing to start the season at Triple-A Pawtucket with hopes of returning to Boston later in the year.
Wilson is not worth holding onto in AL-only play, but if a spot opens up for him later this summer, consider him in deeper leagues.
www.sportsline.com /mlb/players/playerpage/8247   (225 words)

  
 Before there were monstrosities: Old Ballparks - Baseball Fever
Any game at old Tiger Stadium: "Where baseball belongs!" Last game I saw at old Comiskey, only tickets I could get were behind a post in left field, obstructed view was a gross understatement.
Don Wilson proceeds to answer Malony's no-no with one of his own!
Wilson was upset that the Reds had made fun of them in Houston and shown them up in front of their home fans a week earlier.
www.baseball-fever.com /showthread.php?p=8053   (2373 words)

  
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BEATRICE – Born here in Beatrice were baseball player Jim Faulkner in 1899, and baseball player Pid Purdy in 1904.
HARVARD – Born here in Harvard were: baseball player Billy Southworth in 1893, and musician Paul Revere of Paul Revere and the Raiders in 1938.
HASTINGS – Born here in Hastings were: baseball player Johnny Hopp in 1916, composer Neal Hefti in 1922, actress Sandy Dennis in 1937, football player Harry Hopp, and football coach Tom Osborne in 1937.
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 seattlepi.com Mariners blog: Ben Davis sent to Tacoma
Wilson is not injury prone and you never sacrifice defense at catcher just to add a few singles.
Wilson hasn't, and he's at least not a liability behind the plate.
Wilson could have gotten a pile of cash somewhere else and took less to stay in Seattle.
blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com /baseball/archives/002673.html   (16008 words)

  
 ESPN.com: MLB - Living Legends: Phillies voice Harry Kalas
It was during a baseball management convention that Kalas found his way to the majors.
One noteworthy moment was a no-hitter by Don Wilson on May 1, 1969, a day after the Astros were no-hit by Cincinnati's Jim Maloney.
Most Phillies fans and players remember the signature moments of their career by how he called them.
espn.go.com /mlb/s/2003/0615/1568274.html   (1189 words)

  
 Preston Wilson Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com
Drafted by the New York Mets in the 1st round (9th pick) of the 1992 amateur draft.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.
View Preston Wilson's uniforms at Dressed to the Nines, a Baseball Hall of Fame on-line exhibit
www.baseball-reference.com /w/wilsopr01.shtml   (581 words)

  
 Lion Sports   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
She is the only player in school history to record 400 or more kills in all four seasons and holds the single-season record for attempts (1,448) as well as the single-match mark for kills (33).
Southeastern’s co-Female Athlete of the Year in 1996, Starr was a three-time All-Trans America Conference selection as well as an all-Louisiana pick and the TAAC newcomer of the year for 1992.
Williams (1992-96), who was a standout pitcher for the Lions from 1992-96, becomes the first baseball player inducted since Kirk Bullinger was honored in 2002.
www.lionsports.net /headlines/general/1002   (653 words)

  
 The Baseball Analysts: Two on Two: 2006 NL Central Preview
But the jump from the minor leagues to the major leagues is a hard enough one to make as it is even without taking into account that young players that strike out quite a bit seem to take the longest to acclimate to facing more advanced pitching.
Unfortunately, most of the talent at the big-league level is at the wrong end of the defensive spectrum, the pitching staff could be the worst in baseball, and the minor-league system is bereft of talent.
The players on their roster play well together and play baseball the right way.
baseballanalysts.com /archives/2006/03/two_on_two_2006_1.php   (7603 words)

  
 FanBlog: Astros: Three current players on All-Time Astros team
No rules, but you will notice that players on this team played in an Astros' uniform for much, if not most, of their careers.
The players were developed through a good system only to be traded when their salaries became too high.
However, Don Wilson and JR Richard would be as good as it gets today or in any era.
blogs.chron.com /fanblogastros/archives/2005/11/three_current_p.html   (1543 words)

  
 SportingNews.com - Your expert source for MLB Baseball stats, scores, standings, blogs and fantasy news from MLB ...
Joe Mikulik was a firebrand as a player, so it's no surprise he has a fiery temper as a manager (yeah, he was that minor-league manager you've probably seen blowing his top).
Van Slyke: MLB wasting money on Bonds — Tigers first base coach Andy Van Slyke, who was Barry Bonds' former teammate in Pittsburgh, tells Dave Smith that Bud Selig and baseball fans don't care if Bonds gets busted for steroids.
Baseball's only woman umpire to work Futures Game, Home Run Derby 2:25 p.m.
www.sportingnews.com /baseball   (389 words)

  
 FanBlog: Astros: Time Now for Garner, Purpura to Move Decisively
He does have a great bat, but we have to remember, he is a quality bench player, don't over play the guy.
Yes, the young players proved they could get over the playoff hump, but let's not forget how anemic the offense was for most of the season.
No-one should be surprised about the amount of strikeouts Preston Wilson is racking up, that's been the book on him his whole career.
blogs.chron.com /fanblogastros/archives/2006/05/decision_time_l.html   (1895 words)

  
 Don't give out the rings just yet (great article by Bill Simmons) - Addict Baseball and Football Forum
A-Rod was obviously an upgrade from Manny -- in terms of defense, reliability and intangibles, with an advantage in homers but a lower OPS -- but the Sox were shelling out significant cash AND giving up Williamson and blue-chip prospects in the process.
From a baseball standpoint, it wasn't a slam-dunk like last week's Yankees trade.
He was considered the best player in baseball partly because he played shortstop...
www.addictsports.com /baseball/showthread.php?t=33003   (2804 words)

  
 PTR Baseball
July 03, 2006 11:01 PM Once Again, Coach Wilson will be holding Summer baseball camps for those wishing to take their baseball skills to the next level. 
If you are a high school baseball player hopeful, review this checklist to see how you measure up.
There is a reason that the word STUDENT comes first in student/athlete.
www.peachtreeridgebaseball.com   (230 words)

  
 June 18 - UncleWoody.org - What happened on the day I was born?
Sally Ride becomes the first US woman in space, aboard the space shuttle Challenger.
Don Wilson pitches a no-hitter as the Cincinnati Reds beat the Boston Red Sox, 2-0.
Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, with a 21-hour solo flight from Newfoundland to Wales.
www.blamepro.com /cal/0618.htm   (178 words)

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