While flipping through the channels one day in his hotel room this past May in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Steve Wilkerson saw the ACC Baseball Championships were being played down the road in Durham. The former Clemson standout had not watched his alma mater play in 2016.
With his current team, the Frederick Keys, playing later that night, Wilkerson and a teammate journeyed over to Durham Bulls Athletic Park to catch up with some old friends, while also taking in the game.
The Tigers were playing second-seed Louisville that morning, their second game of the tournament.
“I had to come over and see my boys play,” Wilkerson said.