Spider Wilhelm

{{short description|American baseball player}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}

{{Infobox baseball biography

|name=Spider Wilhelm

|image=Spider Wilhelm.jpg

|position=Shortstop

|birth_date={{Birth date|1929|5|23}}

|birth_place=Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.

|death_date={{death date and age|1992|10|20|1929|5|23}}

|death_place=Venice, Florida, U.S.

|bats=Right

|throws=Right

|debutleague = MLB

|debutdate=September 6

|debutyear={{Baseball year|1953}}

|debutteam=Philadelphia Athletics

|finalleague = MLB

|finaldate=September 27

|finalyear={{Baseball year|1953}}

|finalteam=Philadelphia Athletics

|statleague = MLB

|stat1label=At bats

|stat1value=7

|stat2label=RBI

|stat2value=0

|stat3label=Home runs

|stat3value=0

|stat4label=Batting average

|stat4value=.286

|teams=

• Philadelphia Athletics ({{Baseball year|1953}})

}}

Charles Ernest "Spider" Wilhelm (May 23, 1929 – October 20, 1992) was an American professional baseball player who played in seven games for the Philadelphia Athletics during the {{Baseball year|1953}} season. He also played professionally in Cuba.{{Citation|last=Figueredo|first=Jorge S|year=2003|title=Cuban Baseball - A Statistical History, 1878-1961|pages=404}}

He was born in Baltimore, Maryland and died in Venice, Florida at the age of 63.