Bump Wills

Wills now lives in Garland, Texas, with his wife Deborah. He coaches for the Dallas Mustangs, a youth select baseball club. He was slated to be the manager of the Royse City Griffins of planned the Southwest League of Professional Baseball in 2019, but the league folded before ever playing.

After playing with the Chicago Cubs in 1982, Wills played the 1983-1984 seasons in Japan before retiring. His MLB career batting average was .266 with 36 home runs and 302 RBI.

In 1978, Wills stole 52 bases, breaking Dave Nelson's single-season franchise record of 51 in 1972; the number remains a Ranger record for stolen bases in a season.

A switch hitter, Wills played college baseball at Arizona State University under College Baseball Hall of Fame coach Jim Brock. As a major league rookie in 1977, he was on the cover of Sports Illustrated in March.

Bump married Laverne Wills in 1977 and had one child, his daughter, Mauricia Morning Wills (named after his father Maury). He later divorced and remarried Marla Roe, in 1989 and had two daughters during that marriage, Meagan and Madeline Wills.

Born in Washington, D.C., Wills grew up in Spokane, Washington, and graduated from Central Valley High School in 1970, where he was a three-sport star and later coached. He went to college at Arizona State university where he was a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity. He regularly managed clinics for younger players in the area as well.

Elliott Taylor "Bump" Wills (born July 27, 1952) is a former professional baseball player, a second baseman in the major leagues for the Texas Rangers (1977–81) and Chicago Cubs (1982). He also played two seasons in Japan for the Hankyu Braves (1983–84).