DAN WILSON INTERESTING FACTS
******HERE ARE SOME INTERESTING FACTS AND ACHIEVEMENTS DAN HAS ACCOMPLISHED IN HIS CAREER ******

• Dan Wilson was voted by his Mariner teammates to be their team union representative when he first arrived with the club in the winter of 1994. He held that position until he resigned his post in February of 2002.
  
  
• On May 5, 2001, Dan hit his 1st career pinch-hit homerun in a game against the Toronto Blue Jays. The hit gave the Mariners the lead in the game, which they then won 7-5.
  
  
• On August 8, 1997, Dan Wilson had 20 putouts in one game. Dan is also tied with Bob Kearney for the most putouts in an extra-inning game with 21.
  
  
• At Barrington high School in 1986, Dan led his team to a state title with his 13-0 pitching record and a .470 batting avg.
  
  
• In 1997 Dan ravaged left-handing pitching, hitting .357 (7th in AL) with a .651 slugging% (1st in AL) against lefties.
  
  
• Dan was a pitcher when he enrolled at the University of Minnesota but had to switch to only catching because of a bad skin reaction he would have when icing down his arm after pitching a game.
  
  
• Dan belted a 10th inning homerun to win the game for his team in the 1989 Presidential Cup Tourney in Taiwan.
  
  
• Dan hit 3 homeruns in a game against the Detroit Tigers on April 11, 1996. He is one of only 3 mariners to accomplish this feat...the other two being Edgar Martinez and Alex Rodriguez.
  
  
• Dan went 4 for 5 against Detroit on April 17, 1997.
  
  
• Dan was a two-time All-State pitcher and catcher in High School.
  
  
• Dan hit his first career Grand Slam off Anaheim's Jim Abbott on April 16, 1996.
  
  
• Dan majored in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Minnesota.
  
  
• Dan Wilson hit an inside-the-park grand slam vs. Detroit on May 3, 1998, the 171st inside-the-park grand slam in M.L. history...the first in Mariners history.
  
  
• Two of Dan's college teammates were current MLB players Denny Neagle and Brent Gates.
  
  
• Dan stole home against pitcher Mike Mussina and catcher Charles Johnson in a Mariners win against Baltimore on August 1, 1999. The game was also the final game of the 3 games series in which the Mariners swept the Orioles in Seattle for the first time ever.
  
  
• Dan was the only catcher to throw out AL stolen base leaders Kenny Lofton and Curtis Goodwin 3 times each in 1996.
  
  
• In 1981 Dan's team participated in the Little League World Series.
  
  
• Dan hit 11 of his 18 homeruns in 1996 on the road, not in the homer-friendly Kingdome.
  
  
• Dan hit 5 homeruns (12 rbi 's) in 6 games (4/11-4/16) in 1996.
  
  
• Dan hit an Inside-The-Park homerun on September 10, 1997 against Detroit.
  
  
• In 1996, Dan set new club records for catchers in Average (.285), Homeruns (18) and RBI's (83).
  
  
• Dan's childhood hero was Red's catcher Johnny Bench.
  
  
• In 1997, Dan led the Mariners with a .340 Batting Average with runners in scoring position, and he threw out 41% of attempted base stealers.
  
  
• Dan went 4 for 6 in an 8-6 Mariners win over Cleveland on August 19, 1994.
  
  
• Dan was the 7th pick in the nation in the 1st round of the 1990 draft, and was signed by Red's Scout Bob Szymkowski.
  
  
• On June 11, 1996 Dan went 5 for 6 in a team record 24 hit attack against Minnesota.
  
  
• Dan led all American League Catchers in 1995 in Putouts and Chances.
  
  
• Dan helped his High School team win a Gold Medal in the Summer Olympic Festival and was the All-Tournament Catcher for the USA at the World Junior Games in Canada.
  
  
• April was a great month for Dan in 1996... He ended the first month of the season that year with a .291 batting average, a .595 slugging %, 7 homeruns and 21 RBI 's.
  
  
• Baseball America named Dan 1990 All-American at the University of Minnesota.
  
  
• In High School, Dan made All-State in Basketball twice and Hockey 3 times as a goalie, and lettered in Football as the team's Quarterback.
  
  
• While at the University of Minnesota, Dan made All-American 3 times and hit .370 his Senior year.
  
  
• In 1991 at Class-A Charleston, Dan was recognized as the South Atlantic League's best Defensive Catcher by League managers.
  
  
• Dan went 4 for 5 in a game against the Toronto Bluejays on August 8th, 2001 in Seattle.
  
  
• Dan holds all Catcher's hitting/fielding records for the Seattle Mariners.

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