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Rick Cleveland
04-09-2021, 10:31 AM
https://mississippitoday.org/2021/04/09/rick-cleveland-willie-mitchell-mississippi-baseball/
Todd4State
04-09-2021, 04:33 PM
I've always heard that his "Willie Ball" was actually a curveball.
Rick Cleveland
04-09-2021, 06:56 PM
Sounds more like what we used to call a "drop ball." That, or a spitter... He apparently was Mississippi's first Major League player and got there when he was all of 19. Amazing.