Question: Facts: - finalteam: philadelphia athletics - finalyear: 1945 - death place: shreveport , louisiana - statlabel: batting average home runs runs batted in - position: shortstop - statvalue: .257 0 7 - throws: right - debutteam: philadelphia athletics - bats: right - debutdate: april 18 - death date: 3 january 2010 - birth date: 11 august 1922 - finaldate: september 6 - name: bobby wilkins - birth place: denton , north carolina - debutyear: 1944 Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of bobby wilkins .
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robert linwood wilkins -lrb- august 11 , 1922 -- january 3 , 2010 -rrb- was a shortstop in major league baseball who played from through for the philadelphia athletics .listed at , 165 lb. , wilkins batted and threw right-handed .he was born in denton , north carolina .wilkins attended catawba college , where he played in the baseball squad along with vern benson and ray poole .he entered the majors in 1944 with the athletics , playing for them in part of two seasons as the primarily backup to incumbent shortstop ed busch .in a two-season career , wilkins was a .257 hitter -lrb- 46-for-179 -rrb- in 86 games , including 29 runs , six doubles , seven rbi , two stolen bases , and a .304 on-base percentage .after that , wilkins attended duke university in durham , north carolina and graduated from fbi academy in quantico , virginia .a resident of shreveport , louisiana for 60 years , wilkins also played minor league baseball for eleven seasons , four of them with the shreveport sports of the texas league , where he set league records of 159 most consecutive chances without committing an error -lrb- 1949 -rrb- , and for the most double plays -lrb- 71 -rrb- started in a season -lrb- 1951 -rrb- .he posted a .249 career average in 1017 games .following his baseball career , wilkins worked as chief of identification for the caddo sheriff 's department , and was elected president of the louisiana division , inc. , international association for identification .after retiring he taught and coached in local high schools .wilkins died at the age of 87 following a lengthy illness , and is interred at greenwood cemetery in shreveport .