Wil Crowe’s family history and baseball history collided, and he wanted to know everything he could. He did not have a relationship with Charles Herbert Ruffing — better known as “Red” — who died eight years before Crowe was born.

So in the days before the Pirates reliever was set to visit Yankee Stadium for the first time, he did a deep-dive into his great-great uncle. He had known he was a Hall of Famer; had known about the mining accident that cost him four toes and forced him to give up playing the field, so he transitioned to being a pitcher; had known about a lot of his life, but not everything.

“I read more into it a couple days ago before coming, just to know more about him — as much as I could,” Crowe told Post Sports+ on Wednesday. “I think it’s really cool. I knew the broad scheme of it all, but it’s really neat. He’s one of the Yankees greats.”

Hours before Tuesday’s game in The Bronx, the Pirates righty, along with his wife, Hilary, and their young son, Koa Ruffing Crowe — “Hopefully the baseball juju can wear off on him,” Wil said about the middle name — visited Monument Park to see their ancestor’s plaque.