[1] He then umpired college baseball games, before moving up to the then-Class AA Western League.
[1] In May 1922, player-manager Ty Cobb and outfielder Harry Heilmann of the Detroit Tigers engaged in a heated argument with Wilson during a game with the St. Louis Browns.
Cobb, it was alleged, deliberately stepped on Wilson's foot during the confrontation and then refused to leave the field after Wilson ejected him from the game, resulting in Cobb's suspension by American League President Ban Johnson on May 30.
[3] However, a dispute over the game ensued between Johnson and Wilson; the umpire resigned early in the season and joined the National League staff for 1923.
[5] On June 12, 1928, Wilson died of acute appendicitis at Victory Memorial Hospital in Brooklyn, New York at age 38.