Former Kansas basketball guard Frank Mason threw the ceremonial first pitch into the dirt past catcher Devonté Graham all the way to the backstop during “KU Day at the K” pre-game festivities last Aug. 21 at Kauffman Stadium.
He’s become a much better moundsman in less than a year.
Mason, college basketball’s consensus player of the year this past season, fired a perfect strike before Saturday’s Richmond Flying Squirrels minor-league baseball game in Richmond, Va.
Yes, the 5-foot-11, 190-pound Mason delivered a fastball right down the middle — the ball popping into the Squirrels’ catcher’s glove.