Willie Horton (baseball)

Willie Horton
Horton in his Detroit Tigers uniform in 2010
Left fielder / Designated hitter
Born: (1942-10-18) October 18, 1942 (age 81) Arno, Virginia, U.S.
Batted: Right Threw: Right
MLB debut
September 10, 1963, for the Detroit Tigers
Last MLB appearance
October 5, 1980, for the Seattle Mariners
MLB statistics
Batting average	.273
Home runs	325
Runs batted in	1,163
Teams
As player Detroit Tigers (1963–1977) Texas Rangers (1977) Cleveland Indians (1978) Oakland Athletics (1978) Toronto Blue Jays (1978) Seattle Mariners (1979–1980) As coach New York Yankees (1985) Chicago White Sox (1986)
Career highlights and awards
4× All-Star (1965, 1968, 1970, 1973) World Series champion (1968) Detroit Tigers No. 23 retired

Willie Horton (born William Wattison Horton; October 18, 1942), nicknamed "Willie the Wonder", is an American former baseball left fielder and designated hitter who played in Major League Baseball from 1963 to 1980, primarily for the Detroit Tigers.

Over an eighteen-year career spanning six American League teams, he was a four-time All-Star and won a World Championship with the 1968 Tigers. He hit 20 or more home runs seven times, and his 325 career home runs ranked sixth among AL right-handed hitters when he retired. He enjoyed his best season in 1968, finishing second in the AL with 36 homers, a .543 slugging average and 278 total bases. In the later years of his career, he was twice named the AL's top designated hitter.