| DATE SHOT: 1951-56 SUBJECT: Dick Williams APPROXIMATE SIZE: 8"x10" MARKS / STAMPING: Hand-signed by Dick Williams ORIGINAL or REPRINT: Signature is original, Photo is Type 2 Original - Printed from the original negative, but in a later period SIGNER: Dick Williams COMMENTS / CONDITION: As with all of my signed items, the signature is guaranteed to pass further inspection by any major authenticator, or your money back. See scans for signature quality and photo condition. BIO: Richard Hirschfeld Williams was born in 1929 in St. Louis, MO and died in 2011 in Las Vegas, NV. He played major league baseball from 1951 to 1964 as outfielder for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Baltimore Orioles, Cleveland Indians, Kansas City Athletics and the Boston Red Sox, appeared in the 1953 World Series, and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2008. While he was not as prominent as a player, Williams had nearly 3,000 at-bats in 13 seasons at the major league level. He went on to manage the Boston Red Sox (1967-69), Oakland Athletics (1971-73), California Angels (1974-76), Montreal Expos (1977-81), San Diego Padres (1982-85) and the Seattle Mariners (1986-88). Williams' major league managerial career lasted almost without interruption from 1967 to 1988. He won the American League pennant in 1967 as a rookie manager for the Boston Red Sox, the World Series in 1972 and 1973 with the Oakland Athletics, and the National League pennant in 1984 with the San Diego Padres. His Montreal Expos team also won the second half of the strike-torn 1981 season, although he had been ousted as manager in early September that year. Even before he managed in the major leagues, he had success: in his two years at the helm of the Toronto Maple Leafs, Boston's top farm team, in 1965 and 1966, he won the International League championship. SKU: L14696
Item: L14696
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