{"id":2228,"date":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2228"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"williams, billy lee, 1938-  ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2228","title":{"rendered":"WILLIAMS, BILLY LEE, 1938-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Baseball player.  Born&#8211;  June 15, 1938, in Whistler, Mobile County, Ala.  Parents&#8211;   Frank and Jessie Mary Williams.  Married&#8211;  Shirley Williams, February 25, 1960.  Children&#8211;  Four.  Education&#8211;  Mobile County Training School.  Played baseball, minor leagues, 1956-1960; Chicago Cubs, 1961-1974; Oakland Athletics, 1974-.  National League&#8217;s Rookie of the Year, 1961; National League&#8217;s Player of the Year, 1970; Major League&#8217;s Player of the Year, 1972.  Played in six All-Star games.  Established National League record, most consecutive games played, 1117. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who among Black Americans; Billy, the Classic Hitter.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Billy, the Classic Hitter.  New YorK;  Rand-McNally, 1974.  <\/p>\n<p>     Iron Man.  Chicago;  Children&#8217;s Press, 1970. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Baseball player. Born&#8211; June 15, 1938, in Whistler, Mobile County, Ala. Parents&#8211; Frank and Jessie Mary Williams. Married&#8211; Shirley Williams, February 25, 1960. Children&#8211; Four. Education&#8211; Mobile County Training School. Played baseball, minor leagues, 1956-1960; Chicago Cubs, 1961-1974; Oakland Athletics, 1974-. National League&#8217;s Rookie of the Year, 1961; National League&#8217;s Player of the Year, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-w-z"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}