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`Wild Thing' expands his horizons, but looks to majors.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
PHILADELPHIA _ Neither his goal nor his job title has changed.
Mitch Williams is still officially listed as the pitching coach for the Atlantic City Surf of the independent Atlantic League.
It's the first step in what the man reluctantly known as the Wild Thing hopes is a climb back into big-league baseball.
Somewhere along the line, however, Williams' duties expanded.
He went from being just a pitching coach to being a pinch-hitter, a rightfielder and, of course, a pitcher again.
"I've had an absolute ball," Williams said Saturday from his cell phone as he drove up the New Jersey Turnpike for a game against the Newark Bears.
Williams was placed on the active roster during a May 20 game against the Nashua Pride. With runners at first and second, Surf manager Tommy Helms was looking for somebody to lay down a bunt.
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