1. Billy Wilhelm was an American college baseball coach who was the head coach of the Clemson Tigers from 1958 to 1993.
12 Facts About Bill Wilhelm
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Bill Wilhelm played two seasons of college baseball at NC State, and he signed a professional contract with the St Louis Cardinals organization in 1950, splitting that season between the Goldsboro Cardinals and the Allentown Cardinals.
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Bill Wilhelm then spent two years out of baseball from 1951 to 1952, when he served in the United States Army in the Korean War.
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In 1953, Bill Wilhelm returned from military service and had his most successful minor league season.
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Bill Wilhelm played the 1955 and 1956 seasons in the Milwaukee Braves system, advancing as high as the Double-A Atlanta Crackers.
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Bill Wilhelm played his final season of professional baseball in summer 1957, with the Greensboro Patriots of the Boston Red Sox organization.
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Bill Wilhelm appeared in a total of 401 minor league games, hitting.
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In September 1957, Bill Wilhelm accepted the head coaching position at Clemson.
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From 1986 to 1993, the final eight seasons of Bill Wilhelm's head coaching career, Clemson won three regular season conference championships, three conference tournament championships, and one College World Series appearance.
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Bill Wilhelm's teams had winning records in each of his 36 seasons, and he won a total of 17 ACC Regular season Championships and seven ACC Tournament championships, both ACC coaching records, as of the end of the 2012 season.
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Bill Wilhelm coached 27 players who went on to play Major League Baseball.
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Bill Wilhelm died at the age of 81 on December 24,2010, in Seneca, South Carolina.