Billy Williams: My Sweet-Swinging Lifetime With the Cubs

by Fred Mitchell

Other authorsBilly Williams
Paper Book, 2008

Status

Available

Call number

796.35709

Tags

Biography, Player- Billy Williams

Genres

Collection

Sports- Baseball

Publication

Triumph Books (2008), Hardcover, 224 pages

Description

One of the most popular Cubs of all time--and now an executive advisor for the team--Williams reminisces about his early years, his Hall of Fame career, and his five decades in the game in this inspirational autobiography. In Billy Williams: My Sweet-Swinging Lifetime with the Cubs , he remembers the sturdy values and selfless devotion of the people from Whistler who helped shape his character; people like Lilly Dixon, his grade school principal, and Virgil Rhodes, his high school coach, both of whom he remembered in his Hall of Fame induction speech, and also his father who lived long enough to see his son play in the big leagues.

Language

English

Physical description

224 p.; 9 inches

ISBN

9781600780509

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