1. He's from King's Mountain, North Carolina, which is shown on the map below. It's west of Charlotte towards the mountains.
2. Will Wilson had a baseball card made while he was in high school.
3. Pack Pride, an NC State fan site, dubbed him "The Mayor of King's Mountain" a few years back during his freshman year at the school.
The Mayor of Kings Mountain, Will Wilson, singles as the UNC LF misreads the ball. Run scores. Bases loaded with no outs in T5. Pack, 3-0.— Pack Pride (@PackPride) April 16, 2017
and since I wrote the first post.....
This past summer Will Wilson played for the USA Baseball College National Team, which plays mere minutes away from NC State's campus, and even closer to my house.
We are all caught up.
I got to see Will Wilson play last summer while the College National Team was playing Chinese Taipei. Pretty fun game to attend.
More importantly, since he was on a USA Baseball team you know he is getting a baseball card at some point. Do these guys get any money for signing all of these cards, or is more just a thing that they have a card?
Curious.
Here is my Will Wilson card.
It's a sticker autograph, and there is a slight flaw in between his first and last name. At first, I thought that maybe someone at Panini was eating a half melted candy bar while they were putting together this card.....
but it is not. Just some sort of weird mark underneath the sticker. It sort of made me wonder if someone didn't put the sticker on the card, and then pull it back off because it was not straight or flat. More Will Wilson cards later.
If you can look past the sticker... Panini Silhouette cards are pretty awesome.
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