Red Wilson Baseball player

Robert James "Red" Wilson (March 7, 1929 – August 8, 2014) was a professional baseball and college baseball and football player. He played 10 seasons in Major League Baseball for the Chicago White Sox (1951–1954), Detroit Tigers (1954–1960), and Cleveland Indians (1960), primarily as a catcher.

Personal facts

Alias (AKA)Wilson Robert James
Birth dateMarch 07, 1929

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Baseball player

Career startSeptember 22, 1951
Career endSeptember 24, 1960
batting sideRight
former teams
Chicago White Sox
Cleveland Indians
position
Catcher
teams
Chicago White Sox
Cleveland Indians
Detroit Tigers
throwing sideRight

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External resources

  1. http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/UW/UW-idx?type=div&did=UW.0024.0847.0004&isize=text
  2. http://host.madison.com/sports/college/badgers-sports-uw-legend-robert-red-wilson-dies-at-age/article_be02b05b-7118-55bd-b3fa-565584fbc1a8.html
  3. http://sabr.org/bioproj/person/77fb08d5
  4. http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/W/Pwilsr102.htm