My high school baseball coach was the legendary Bill “Moose” Perry. He was a clone of another Mississippi high school baseball coaching legend, D.M. Howie. They were two of a kind.
Coach Perry’s Forest Hill Rebels went 29-1 and won the Mississippi High School, Class AA baseball state championship in 1974.
His coaching strategy for that successful, almost undefeated season?
Pitch Stewart Cliburn every game!
Except the one they lost.
That’s quite a winning formula.
I would have done the same thing!
Coach Perry and his assistant Coach Johnny Course celebrating the 1974 State Championship. “We Believe!”
Forest Hill principal Joseph P. Walker, Coach Johnny Course and Coach Perry holding the Rebels first, and only, baseball state championship trophy after a 10-6 win over Cleveland High School.
Right-hand pitcher Steven Bourgeois gets struck by lightning.
Rick Clarke's Diary of a Mad Baseball Coach 