Kink Wilson

Frank Albert Wilson

• School Williams College
• High School Yarmouth High School

• Born 1865 in Maine USA
• Died 1945 in Worcester, MA USA

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Biographical Information

Kink Wilson, born Frank Albert Wilson, played two seasons of minor league ball in 1890 and 1892, after starring as a pitcher at Williams College from 1887 to 1889. A graduate of Yarmouth High School in Yarmouthville, ME, he pitched for the freshman class team in his first year at Williams. During Wilson's years on the varsity squad, Williams found great success, winning an Intercollegiate baseball league in the years 1887 to 1889, over the likes of Dartmouth College, Amherst College, Trinity College, and Brown University. Wilson and future major leaguer Artie Clarke formed the primary battery for the club, which went 9-4 in league games in 1887, 11-1 in 1888, and 10-2 in 1889.

Wilson was a student of the classics and graduated from Williams in 1889. That summer, he joined Clarke and some other Williams teammates on the Citizens Corps team in the Troy, NY city league. He was in the same area the following year, pitching during the summer with the Albany Senators in the New York State League. He was one of Albany's top pitchers in the second half of the season, going 6-2 in league games, while frequently playing left field between pitching appearances.

He left Albany before the end of the 1890 season to begin work as a teacher of the classics at the Rexleigh School in Salem, NY, where he also played in 1891 and 1892. That summer he had stops in the minor leagues with the Binghamton Bingoes and Troy (NY) Trojans of the Eastern League. He then became an assistant principal in North Adams, MA before settling in for a long teaching career in Worcester, MA.

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