WATCH: Willie Wilson's high school football highlights are just epic
Royals legend Willie Wilson was a pretty fair football player back in his day, as it turns out.
By
Dayn Perry
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1 min read
Willie Wilson! He was one heck of a baseball player. Across part of 19 big-league seasons, most of them with the Royals, Wilson tallied 2,207 hits, stole 668 bases, won a Gold Glove in center and twice made the All-Star team. He was without question a core contributor to those great Royals teams of the late 1970s and early- to mid-1980s.
Maybe, since you're at an Internet rumpus room called Eye On Baseball, you know all of that. You should also know this: Willie Wilson could also play some darn football.
On that point, I submit into evidence this rousing, soaring and glorious-maximus video of some Willie Wilson football highlights from his days as a two-way star for Summit High School in Summit, N.J. As you're about to learn, the accompanying music is not disappointing ...
Whoever you are, you could not tackle Willie Wilson at any point from 1971-73. This is because he was bigger than you. This is also because he was faster than you. This is also, also because he was more Willie Wilson than you.
Regarding all of this, it's worth noting that in 2011 the Newark Star-Ledger wondered aloud (or in print, actually) whether Wilson was the greatest high school athlete in New Jersey history. On the gridiron Mr. Wilson accounted for 3,693 yards rushing in his junior and senior seasons, scored more than 400 points in his career and returned 11 of 24 career INTs for touchdowns. Throw in his baseball bestowals, and, yes, you've got a pretty fair athlete in Willie James Wilson.
Really, though, that music.
(Wink of CBS eye: @cistulli via some worthy gentleman on my Facebook page)
