title: Willie Patterson (baseball)
text: # Willie Patterson (baseball)
  
  Willie Lee Patterson, Jr. (April 1, 1919 – August 20, 2004) was an American Negro league infielder and catcher in the 1940s and 1950s.
  
  A native of Americus, Georgia, Patterson began his Negro league career in 1946 with the Birmingham Black Barons, and was named to the 1952 and 1953 East–West All-Star Games. After his baseball career, Patterson worked as a longshoreman in Mobile, Alabama until his retirement in 1981. He died in Mobile in 2004 at age 85.
  
  