After his playing career was over, Lawson managed at the minor league level, with the Meridian Peps (Meridian, Mississippi) in the Southeastern League in 1947 and with the Green Bay Bluejays of the Wisconsin State League in 1948.\n', '

Lawson was born in Donnellson, Iowa, in 1906. His father, William Lawson, was a blacksmith. The family moved to Stockport, Iowa, when Lawson was a child. He played baseball at Stockport High School and began pitching as a senior, but "he was so wild there was as much likelihood of his tosses hitting the third baseman as there was of them arriving somewhere in the vicinity of the batter."\n', '

After graduating from high school, he played semi-pro baseball and developed a reputation for his ability to strike out 10 to 15 batters per game.\n', '

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