“He was not only one of the greatest coaches in Temple history but in collegiate baseball,” said Temple vice president and AD Arthur Johnson about James 'Skip' Wilson. “His legacy, however, will be in the lives he touched while leading the program.”
James “Skip” Wilson, 92, of Philadelphia, a baseball lifer, the all-time winningest coach in any sport at Temple University, a longtime teacher at Roxborough High School, and an inspirational mentor to many, died Tuesday, July 26, of complications from a stroke at Jefferson Abington Hospital.
“He was not only one of the greatest coaches in Temple history but in collegiate baseball,” Arthur Johnson, Temple’s vice president and director of athletics, said in a tribute. “His legacy, however, will be in the lives he touched while leading the program.” John McArdle, former Temple assistant coach, said in 2005: “He’d always tell you to take care of your family first, put your priorities in order.” In 2007, Mr. Wilson told The Inquirer: “I would say if you don’t have fun while playing, why play? It’s the same with coaching. I had fun teaching the boys.”
He married Joanne Takach, and they had daughters Lizanne, Jennifer, and Stephanie, and son Gregory. After a divorce, he married Marion Patterson, and they had daughter Rhetta. They divorced later, and he married Suzanne O’Donnell in 1992.
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