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3 unusual facts about Jimmie Wilson


Jim Wilson

Jimmie Wilson (1900–1947), American baseball player and manager and professional soccer player

Jimmie Wilson

Released along with Reds manager Bill McKechnie at the end of the 1946 season, Wilson moved to Florida and entered the citrus growing business.

In February 1923, he gave up his soccer career when he was traded from New Haven in the Eastern League to the Philadelphia Phillies in the National League for Stan Baumgartner and Jack Withrow.



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