His playing career cut short by a shoulder injury, Williams became a manager for the California Angels at Class A Quad Cities of the Midwest League in 1974 and after six seasons managing in the minors became Bobby Mattick’s third base coach with Toronto in 1980.

But they say the traitor fish tactic is worthwhile, pointing to results in the Mississippi from the Illinois-Iowa Quad Cities to the Iowa-Missouri border.

The National Weather Service office for Quad Cities, a group of cities in Iowa and Illinois, said the area could receive three rounds of severe weather beginning Tuesday afternoon.

The Storm Prediction Center issued a moderate weather warning on Friday that includes the Quad Cities — Rock Island and Moline, Ill., and Davenport and Bettendorf, Iowa — and stretches south down Illinois and eastern Missouri to parts of eastern Arkansas, western Tennessee and Kentucky and northern Mississippi.

The Quad Cities will likely see two rounds of severe weather on Friday, forecasters said.