Which baseball player and manager was born in Ellisville, Mississippi, home of 4448 people?
Ellisville, Mississippi Ellisville is a city in and the first county seat of Jones County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 4,448 at the time of the 2010 census. The Jones County Courthouse is located here, as is much of the county government.
Ike Pearson Isaac Overton Pearson (March 1, 1917 – March 17, 1985) was an American professional baseball pitcher who appeared in 164 games in the Major Leagues for the Philadelphia Phillies (1939–1942; 1946) and Chicago White Sox (1948). The native of Grenada, Mississippi, a right-hander, stood 6 ft tall and weighed 180 lb . He signed with the Phillies off the campus of the University of Mississippi, and was a World War II veteran of the United States Marine Corps.