Desi Wilson

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Desi Bernard Wilson

Bats Left, Throws Left
Height 6' 7", Weight 230 lb.
School Fairleigh Dickinson University
Debut August 7, 1996
Final Game September 29, 1996
Born May 9, 1969 in Glen Cove, NY USA

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Desi Wilson is the only major league player to come out of small Fairleigh Dickinson University. He played in the major leagues for the 1996 San Francisco Giants, making his debut on August 7, 1996, and hitting .271 in 118 at-bats while playing first base. The next year J.T. Snow took over first base and kept it for years.

Although Wilson played only one year in the major leagues, he has played 17 seasons in professional baseball, so far. Since 2002 he has primarily played independent baseball. He tends to have high batting averages but does not have a lot of power.

He got his shot at the majors in 1996 when he hit .339 in the Pacific Coast League for the Phoenix Firebirds. The following year he hit .344 for them.

He was in Japan in 1998. Coming back to the U.S., he played in Triple A from 1999 to 2001, hitting .323, .269, and .328.

In independent ball in 2005, he hit .411 for the Surprise Fightin' Falcons of the Golden Baseball League. At age 37 in 2006, he played in the same league for Chico, hitting .333. He retired after the season to became manager of the Anderson Joes of the newly-formed South Coast League. The team did badly in the first half, going 13-32, and 8 games into the second half, he gave up the manager's job to resume playing, hitting .366 in 22 games. He was later traded to the South Georgia Peanuts and was a member of their championship-winning team.

In 2008, Wilson was a coach for the Peoria Chiefs. In 2009 he will be a coach for the Boise Hawks.