Willis Hudlin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American baseball player
Date of Birth: 23-May-1906
Place of Birth: Wagoner, Oklahoma, United States
Date of Death: 05-Aug-2002
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Willis Hudlin
- George Willis Hudlin (May 23, 1906 – August 5, 2002) was born in Wagoner, Oklahoma, and was a Major League Baseball pitcher for, most notably, the Cleveland Indians from 1926 to 1940.
- Hudlin did not pitch more than 10 games with any other team, although he played with 3 others. In 1940, Hudlin became one of the few players to compete on 4 different major league teams in the same year (Cleveland Indians, Washington Senators, New York Giants, and the St.
- Louis Browns).
- Hudlin's career statistics include a 158–156 record, with a 4.41 ERA.
- He had 677 strikeouts in 2613 career innings pitched.
- Hudlin was the pitcher who gave up Babe Ruth's 500th home run. Hudlin was a good hitting pitcher in his career, recording a .201 batting average (180-for-894) with 76 runs, 5 home runs and 69 RBI. Hudlin's pitch selection included a well-known sinker, a fastball, curveball and a changeup.
- He occasionally threw sidearm or with an underhand "dip of the wrist", though he threw overhand most often.After Hudlin finished playing in the majors, he was a manager for the minor league Little Rock Travelers and pitching coach for the Detroit Tigers under skippers Jack Tighe, Bill Norman and Jimmy Dykes (1957–59).
- Hudlin later became a scout for the New York Yankees where he even scouted his own son James Hudlin who was given a contract to play professionally, but was drafted to serve in the Vietnam War.
- James Hudlin's pitch selection was a knuckleball, slider, curveball, and sinker, as well as a two-seam fastball which topped out at 102 mph (164 km/h). Willis Hudlin was a member of the Army Air Forces during World War II as a flight instructor.
- He died in Little Rock, Arkansas, at the age of 96, and was interred in Hazelhurst Cemetery, Hazelhursrt, Copiah County, Mississippi.
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