As Player

As Manager

Wilbur Donald "Don" Wakamatsu (born February 22, 1963 in Hood River, Oregon) is a former catcher and coach in Major League Baseball. On November 19, 2008, Wakamatsu was named the manager of the Seattle Mariners , becoming the 16th manager in club history. Born to a Japanese American father and an Irish American mother, he is Yonsei, and the first Asian-American manager in Major League Baseball history. Close friends and players call him "Wak." His father was born in the Tule Lake War Relocation Center, a Japanese American internment camp located in Northern California near the Oregon border.