Russell Wilson’s first love was baseball.
He played it practically from birth with his grandfather, father and older brother.
In fact, some of his earliest memories of loving sports go back to getting his brother’s ground balls, batting practice with his brother, hitting his first home run on his big bro’s pitch.
But there is a very distinct moment that Wilson fell in love with football.
Having grown up playing baseball morning, noon and night - a ton of double-headers and even a few triple-heaaders - Wilson was used to throwing a ball and would often toss the pigskin with teammates between games and at weekend tournaments.