RIP Gerald Williams

[heyabbott]

Passed away from cancer. He was a good OF for the Yankees. Good player, good guy. RIP

 

[Songbird]

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Got traded away by the Yankees in mid-96 to the Brewers in the deal that brought Graeme Lloyd to the Bronx as a valuable lefty arm in the pen and came back briefly after the Yanks finished winning World Series titles, but a solid player. RIP.

 

[rubenmateo]

Spent years in the minors with Bernie Williams, and IIRC for a time brass wondered which Williams they should keep.

 

[heyabbott]

Spent years in the minors with Bernie Williams, and IIRC for a time brass wondered which Williams they should keep.

The Prince William Canons and Columbus Clippers.

 

[matt_garth]

Saw the Williamses play together in the outfield with Albany Colonie in the 1990 Eastern League playoffs in New Britain.

Also, this:

Spent years in the minors with Bernie Williams, and IIRC for a time brass wondered which Williams they should keep.

 

[heyabbott]

Saw the Williamses play together in the outfield with Albany Colonie in the 1990 Eastern League playoffs in New Britain.

Also, this:

That’s a hell of an unintentional eulogy. And Gerald must really have been a good guy to get that kind of mention in Jeter’s book. I was a Yankee fan and knew who Gerald was but for jeter to recall him like that in his book says everything.

 

[Octave]

He plugged away on some bad Mets teams. He had quite the adventure in baseball. A well-liked person from all accounts.

But he took no guff, either. My first thought of Gerald Williams is when he charged Pedro Martinez.

 

[lakefront]

That’s a hell of an unintentional eulogy. And Gerald must really have been a good guy to get that kind of mention in Jeter’s book. I was a Yankee fan and knew who Gerald was but for jeter to recall him like that in his book says everything.

As a Red Sox fan, I heard a lot of nice thing about him over the years.

 

[lakefront]

As a Red Sox fan, I heard a lot of nice thing about him over the years.

Just saw the Pedro clip, had not seen that before I posted.

 

[Corky Ramirez up on 94th St.]

Just saw the Pedro clip, had not seen that before I posted.

That was a beanball fest. I remember Brian Daubach threw what the (Devil) Rays' players thought was a cheap shot when everyone was on the ground, and they kept throwing at him the rest of the game.

Retrosheet Boxscore: Boston Red Sox 8, Tampa Bay Devil Rays 0

And Pedro threw a one-hitter through all that!

 

[Octave]

Here's the full game. The Williams charge is around the 9-minute mark, as the leadoff batter for the Devil Rays in the bottom of the first.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Wound up playing against the Yankees in the 1999 World Series.