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Williams Joins Greats on 0 Attempt Monday, January 8th , 1968 The Baseball Writers Association has put the crowning touch on Tony Williams's outstanding baseball career. They put the great mound superstar in the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame today. He modestly gave credit to "better than average pitching skills and lots of three-run homers" for making it possible for him to move up into the legendary class of baseball players -- but the sportswriters, his teammates and peers knew differently. In reality Williams was a craftsman, an artist. He was a perfectionist. He painted a ballgame stroke by stroke and when he got through pitching a game, it was a masterpiece. By the time he retired at age 37, Williams fashioned an impressive record of 262-160, had an ERA of 3.13, struck out 2121 batters and held opposing teams to a .232 batting average. Williams made 552 mound appearances and worked 3859 innings in his career. |
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