playing at third base and some in the outfield, while batting .375 with seven home runs and 35 RBIs in 25 games. After baseball Fields left baseball in 1958 and initially took a job as a bricklayer's helper. Disappointed by the low pay, he found more promising work as an alcohol counselor with the District government. His work took him to reform schools and prisons. At the Lorton Correctional Complex, he organized baseball games between inmates and young Prince William County players. The athletic genes were passed to his son, who attended Providence College on a full basketball scholarship. He retired in the mid-1980s, worked briefly as a security guard and then became part of the new Negro League Baseball Players Association, which helped raise money for income-strapped former members and bring attention to the long-defunct league. As president of the association since the mid-1990s, he organized autograph shows and held benefit auctions to raise money for many of his former baseball colleagues, and also organized baseball games for prison inmates while working as an alcohol counselor. Wilmer Fields died of a heart ailment at his home in Manassas, Virginia. He was 81. Honors and acknowledgments In addition to his many awards during his playing days, Fields has received posthumous acknowledgment for his contribution to baseball. In 2001 Fields received the honor of induction into the Caribbean Baseball Hall of Fame as part of their fifth class. Then, in 2006 he was inducted into the Black Ice Hockey and Sports Hall of Fame along with 19 other Black athletes for his outstanding career in the Negro leagues. References External links and Baseball-Reference Black Baseball stats and Seamheads Negro League Baseball Players Association biography 1922 births 2004 deaths American expatriate baseball players in Canada American expatriate baseball players in Mexico United States Army personnel of World War II Baseball players from Virginia Brantford Red Sox players Cervecería Caracas players Diablos Rojos del México players Estrellas Orientales players American expatriate baseball players in the Dominican Republic Homestead Grays players Indios de Mayagüez players Mexican League baseball players Patriotas de Venezuela players People from Manassas, Virginia Sultanes de Monterrey players Toronto Maple Leafs (International League) players Virginia State Trojans football players Brandon Greys players American expatriate baseball players in Colombia 20th-century African-American sportspeople 21st-century African-American people