BATON ROUGE, La. – Former LSU pitcher Wallace Louis "Butch" Mixon Jr. passed away on Tuesday in Baton Rouge at the age of 80.
Visitation is on Friday at First Presbyterian Church in Baton Rouge – 763 North Blvd., from 9:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. with a service immediately following.
An All-State basketball player at Baton Rouge High School, Mixon signed an athletic scholarship at LSU to play basketball and baseball.
On April 28, 1959, he established the SEC single-game record with 24 strikeouts – a mark that still stands today – in an outing versus Southwestern Louisiana in the original Alex Box Stadium.