Dale Jerome Willis is a former American college and professional baseball player who was a pitcher in Major League Baseball for single season in 1963. Willis was born in Calhoun, Georgia in 1938. He attended the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he played for coach Dave Fuller's Florida Gators baseball team in 1955 and 1956. As a senior in 1956, he posted three consecutive games with ten or more strikeouts, averaged 11.9 strikeouts per game, and earned an All-SEC selection. He was later inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a "Gator Great" in 1976. Willis was signed by the Kansas City Athletics as an amateur free agent in 1960, and spent several years playing for their minor league affiliates. He played for the Athletics in 1963. He appeared in twenty-five career games, and posted an 0?2 win?loss record with a 5.04 earned run average. Willis batted and threw right-handed. After retiring from professional baseball, Willis worked in the construction equipment business and became a vice president of the Sims Crane & Equipment Company in Tampa, Florida. [More at Wikipedia]

May 29th, 1938 in Calhoun  /  Died:   Aug 26th, 2021 - aged 85