Alabama News Center — From delivering fastballs to delivering the Gospel: Negro Leagues pitcher William Greason remembers Rickwood Field playing days

By: Solomon Crenshaw Jr.

As a Negro Leagues Baseball pitcher, William Greason relied on two pitches.

“Fastball. Curveball. That’s all I needed,” Greason recalled. “That was enough to get them out. That was enough. Just control. The main thing was to have control. That’s a blessing, and I was blessed to have pretty good control.”

These days, Greason isn’t pitching from a mound in the middle of an infield. The 99-year-old is making his delivery from the pulpit of Bethel Baptist Church in Birmingham’s West End Community.

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