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Billy Williams: My Sweet-Swinging Lifetime With the Cubs | 
 enlarge | Authors: Billy Williams, Fred Mitchell
Creator: Ron Santo
Publisher: Triumph Books
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 110262
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 1600780504
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.35709
EAN: 9781600780509
ASIN: 1600780504
Publication Date: April 1, 2008
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Book Description
Reliable, quiet, and often overshadowed in the media by the showier players of the era, Billy Williams steadily created a Hall of Fame career with the Chicago Cubs and Oakland A's. Now Williams, with the Chicago Tribune's Fred Mitchell, reflects on his life and career in this self-titled autobiography. Williams revisits the social conditions and racial tensions that influenced his early years, and tells how growing up in Whistler, Alabama, shaped the rest of his life. Williams celebrates his playing days with the 1969 Cubs and speaks honestly about baseball, the players of today and yesteryear, and the changes he has witnessed over the years.
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A Classy Book about a Classy Ballplayer May 5, 2008
It is an honor to be the first person to review this excellent book about the life of Billy Williams. In an age of baseball books called Vindicated and stories of steroids and other sordid aspects of the game it is refreshing to read this book about a player who exemplified class and a love for the game of baseball and a love for one woman his entire adult life.
I am a lifelong Cubs fan and I began following the team in around 1965 when I was 7 years old. Everyone knew about Ernie Banks back in those days but Billy Williams was a very unsung hero of those teams. I once saw him get 5 hits in one game.
In the book Billy is pretty outspoken about the racism he encountered as he moved up in the cubs organization. He came very close to quitting for good and what a shame that would have been if Buck O'Neill hadn't tracked Billy down and brought him to his senses.
My favorite chapter was one where Billy goes down a long list of his cubs teammates giving us glimpses into what it was to be a baseball player before the years of free agency and exorbitant salaries.
Billy also talks about his time with the Oakland A's just after they had won their three championships in a row.
He discusses his desire to manage in the major leagues and his years of coaching for the A's and the Cubs and his experiences with Sammy Sosa during the 1998 season.
The book concludes with the text of Billy's Hall of Fame speech.
If you followed the Cubs during the 60's and 70's this book will be a nice trip down memory lane.
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