Come late summer, Russell Wilson isn’t trading his helmet for a pair of batting gloves. But a baseball player at heart, Wilson took a few cuts of batting practice at PNC Park Friday before throwing out the first pitch at tonight’s game between the Pirates and Boston Red Sox.
93.7 The Fan’s Dan Zangrilli tweeted out a short clip of Wilson taking BP with the team.
Wilson was a multi-sport star growing up, playing baseball and football at NC State. The Colorado Rockies drafted him in the fourth round of the 2010 MLB Draft and he spent two years in their minor leagues, hitting .