Onetime Mariners catcher Dan Wilson took over the team’s top job in August.
The dream of the ’90s is very much alive for the Seattle Mariners, and it’s not just throwback gear and Sir Mix-a-Lot tunes. Last August, Mariners ownership fired its long-tenured manager Scott Servais and hired Dan Wilson, who played catcher with the team from 1994 to 2005, in his place.
Raised in Illinois, Wilson remembers the first time he put on a catcher’s mask, at only 5 or 6 years old, and falling in love with “being involved with every pitch and being at the center of activity each time.” In 1995, he and the Mariners
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