Dick Williams
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Richard Hirschfeld Williams was an American left fielder, third baseman, manager, coach and front-office consultant in Major League Baseball. Known especially as a hard-driving, sharp-tongued manager
Williams in 1969
Williams (fourth from left) and other Red Sox personnel with Mayor of Boston John F. Collins (at right) in October 1967
Williams at the 2008 All-Star Game Red Carpet Parade
1972 World Series
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The 1972 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's 1972 season. The 69th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the American League champion Oakl
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…saves (43). They defeated the Tigers in a bitterly fought ALCS (winning the deciding game 5 2–1), and found themselves facing the Cincinnati Reds in the World Series. With the A's leading power hitter, Jackson, out with an injury, Cincinnati's Big Red Machine was favored to win, but the home run heroics of Oakland…
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