Notes On The Great Player, Billy Williams
While looking over notes from the 1975 baseball season, the fact Billy Williams finally made post-season play came back to mind.
He came to the Oakland A’s in 1975 after they had won 3 straight World Series titles.
In ’75 they won a 5th straight division title but lost in 3 straight games to the Boston Red Sox in the American League Championship Series.
A 108 win Cincinnati Reds team won a great W.S. from the Red Sox.
Williams was best known as a Chicago Cubs outfielder and hit 426 home runs.
Billy is a Hall of Fame player and I remember his/my great “2 column” in Strat-O- Matic Baseball.
As with Mark Twain, Billy Williams’ death has been greatly exaggerated as he is alive and certainly did not die in 1973.
Billy Williams
Billy Leo Williams is a retired American baseball left fielder who played sixteen seasons in Major League Baseball for the Chicago Cubs and two seasons for the Oakland Athletics. Williams was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1987. In 1999…
- Born: Jun 15, 1938 · Whistler, AL
- Died: Nov 04, 1973 · Manchester, England——–A MISTAKE Billy Is Alive and certainly did not die in 1973!!!
- Height: 6′ 1″
- Nationality: American
- Awards: National League Rookie of the Year
- Team: Chicago Cubs
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