Growing up in the 1990s, the internet was still in its infancy. So I did what anyone else did and went to the library and get books. I would pick up anything that was baseball-related in addition to my baseball cards. But as the internet got faster and sites like Baseball-Reference and various blogs came up, I started reading at a rapid speed of all baseball-related history subjects. I say this because I never watched Earl Wilson pitch a game for the Tigers as the 1984 & 1987 Tigers squads were the ones I rooted for (ok, more games at six years old for the 1987 squad but you get the idea)
The history of Earl Wilson is fasciating because he made his debut in the majors a week after Elijah “Pumpsie” Green did for the Boston Red Sox, becoming the team’s first African-American pitcher and would make his debut on July 29, 1959.