Baseball thoughts on the eve of the Supe

On the eve of the Super Bowl some baseball trivia and remembrances.

I remember listening to the spring training game in Lakeland, Florida then and now the winter home of the Detroit Tigers when a line drive off the bat of Gates Brown broke promising Mets’ pitcher Carl Willey’s jaw.

That 1964 season, Dick Ellsworth a Chicago Cubs pitcher made the All Star team largely because of a tremendous 1963 season in which he not only won 22 games, but lowered his earned run average by almost 3 runs per game.

The Willey/Ellsworth “stretched link” continued when Willey died in Ellsworth Maine.

There are nice memories for me regarding both pitchers.