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It is not Wilhelm
Firstly, with rare exception Topps did not waste the man hours to hand paint black and white team-issued photos of players for whom they already had color images.
Secondly, the coloring isn't orange, it's red, slightly faded from the process of photographing a photograph (and the negative aging over half a century). There are colorized Orioles shots from this era (see the Charlie White image posted several pages back, in the catcher's chest protestor) and it becomes evident Topps made sure there was no chance the orange could be mistaken for red. If anything, this is a Braves' minor league pitcher (possibly Vic Rehm - vague resemblance) and the cap is blank because it had displayed the logo of a minor league team. Plenty of these Braves have been sold by Topps Vault in the last few years.
Thirdly, there would be no call to take an Orioles image of Wilhelm and eliminate the cap logo - which has clearly happened in this case. Wilhelm was only traded by Baltimore after the early 1963 cards went to press and was thus shown in an Oriole uniform. By the time of the 1964 set Topps had plenty of images of Wilhelm with the White Sox.
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