WILLIE FOSTER | Following through after delivering a warm-up pitch is legendary Negro League pitcher Willie Foster. Once Willie Foster was able to perform on a regular basis, he worked his way to a record 137 wins in league games, the most of any pitcher in the history of the black baseball leagues. The younger Foster's career in the Negro League stretched from 1923 until the end of the 1938 season. He remained with the Chicago American Giants until 1930, leading the team to two world championships. He returned to play for the renamed Cole's American Giants in 1937. Willie Foster became Dean of Men as well as baseball coach as Alcorn State College in Mississippi in 1960 and remained there until shortly before his death in 1978.

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