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{{short description|American baseball player and manager (1929–2011)}}
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{{Infobox baseball biography
|name=Dick Williams
|image=Dick Williams All Star Parade 2008.jpg
|image_size=250px
|caption=Williams at the 2008 All-Star Game Red Carpet Parade
|position=[[Outfielder]] / [[Third baseman]] / [[Manager (baseball)|Manager]]
|bats=Right
|throws=Right
|birth_date=May 7, 1929
|birth_place=[[St. Louis, Missouri]], U.S.
|death_date={{death date and age|2011|7|7|1929|5|7}}
|death_place=[[Las Vegas, Nevada]], U.S.
|debutleague = MLB
|debutdate=June 10
|debutyear=1951
|debutteam=Brooklyn Dodgers
|finalleague = MLB
|finaldate=September 22
|finalyear=1964
|finalteam=Boston Red Sox
|statleague = MLB
|stat1label=[[Batting average (baseball)|Batting average]]
|stat1value=.260
|stat2label=[[Home run]]s
|stat2value=70
|stat3label=[[Run batted in|Runs batted in]]
|stat3value=331
|stat4label=Managerial record
|stat4value=1,571–1,451
|stat5label=Winning %
|stat5value=.520
|teams=
'''As player'''
* [[Brooklyn Dodgers]] ({{baseball year|1951}}–{{baseball year|1954}}, {{baseball year|1956}})
* [[Baltimore Orioles]] ({{baseball year|1956}}–{{baseball year|1957}})
* [[Cleveland Indians]] ({{baseball year|1957}})
* [[Baltimore Orioles]] ({{baseball year|1958}})
* [[Kansas City Athletics]] ({{baseball year|1959}}–{{baseball year|1960}})
* [[Baltimore Orioles]] ({{baseball year|1961}}–{{baseball year|1962}})
* [[Boston Red Sox]] ({{baseball year|1963}}–{{baseball year|1964}})
'''As manager'''
* [[Boston Red Sox]] ({{baseball year|1967}}–{{baseball year|1969}})
* [[Oakland Athletics]] ({{baseball year|1971}}–{{baseball year|1973}})
* [[California Angels]] ({{baseball year|1974}}–{{baseball year|1976}})
* [[Montreal Expos]] ({{baseball year|1977}}–{{baseball year|1981}})
* [[San Diego Padres]] ({{baseball year|1982}}–{{baseball year|1985}})
* [[Seattle Mariners]] ({{baseball year|1986}}–{{baseball year|1988}})
|highlights=
* 2× [[World Series]] champion ({{wsy|1972}}, {{wsy|1973}})
* [[Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame]]
* [[San Diego Padres Hall of Fame]]
|hoflink = National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
|hoftype = National
|hofdate=[[2008 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting|2008]]
|hofvote=81.3%
|hofmethod=Veterans Committee
}}
'''Richard Hirschfeld Williams''' (May 7, 1929 – July 7, 2011) was an American [[left fielder]], [[third baseman]], [[manager (baseball)|manager]], [[coach (baseball)|coach]] and front-office consultant in [[Major League Baseball]]. Known especially as a hard-driving, sharp-tongued manager from 1967 to 1969 and from 1971 to 1988, he led teams to three [[American League]] pennants, one [[National League (baseball)|National League]] pennant, and two [[World Series]] triumphs. He is one of nine managers to win pennants in both major leagues, and joined [[Bill McKechnie]] in becoming only the second manager to lead three franchises to the Series ([[Bruce Bochy]], in 2023, became the third). He and [[Lou Piniella]] are the only managers in history to lead four teams to seasons of 90 or more wins. Williams was inducted into the [[National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum|National Baseball Hall of Fame]] in [[2008 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting|2008]] following his election by the [[Veterans Committee]].

==Early life==
Williams was born on May 7, 1929, in [[St. Louis, Missouri]],<ref name="nyt">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/08/sports/baseball/dick-williams-hall-of-fame-manager-dies-at-82.html?ref=deathsobituaries|title=Dick Williams, Hall of Fame Manager, Dies at 82|author=Richard Goldstein|date=July 7, 2011|work=The New York Times|author-link=Richard Goldstein (writer born 1942)}}</ref> and lived there until age 13, when his family moved to [[Pasadena, California]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pasadenaweekly.com/2008/03/27/on-his-terms/|title=On His Terms|last=Hunter|first=Travis|date=27 March 2008|publisher=Pasadena Weekly|access-date=2 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180402231603/https://www.pasadenaweekly.com/2008/03/27/on-his-terms/|archive-date=April 2, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> He attended [[Pasadena High School (California)|Pasadena High School]], and then enrolled in [[Pasadena City College]]. 

==Career==
===Playing career===
Williams signed his first professional contract with the [[Brooklyn Dodgers]] in 1947, and played his first major league game with Brooklyn in 1951. A right-handed batter and thrower, Williams was listed as {{convert|6|ft}} tall and {{convert|190|lb}}. Initially an [[outfielder]], he separated a shoulder attempting to make a diving catch on August 25, 1952;<ref>[[Retrosheet]] [https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1952/B08252SLN1952.htm box score: 1952-08-25]</ref> he missed the rest of the season and permanently weakened his throwing arm. As a result, he learned to play several positions (he was frequently a [[first baseman]] and [[third baseman]]) and became a notorious "[[bench jockey]]" in order to keep his major league job.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1983/08/15/sports/bench-jockeying-lost-art-in-baseball.html Alfano, Peter (15 August 1983), "Bench Jockeying: A Lost Art in Baseball."] ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref> He appeared in 1,023 games over 13 seasons with the Dodgers, [[Baltimore Orioles]], [[Cleveland Indians]], [[Kansas City Athletics]] and [[Boston Red Sox]]. Williams posted a career [[batting average (baseball)|batting average]] of .260; his 768 [[hit (baseball)|hits]] included 70 [[home run]]s, 157 [[double (baseball)|doubles]] and 12 [[triple (baseball)|triples]]. In the field, he appeared in 456 games in the outfield, 257 at third base, and 188 at first.

He was a favorite of [[Paul Richards (baseball)|Paul Richards]], who acquired Williams four different times between 1956 and 1962 when Richards was a manager or [[general manager (baseball)|general manager]] with Baltimore and the [[Houston Colt .45s]]. One such transaction occurred on April 12, 1961, when Williams was traded along with [[Dick Hall (baseball)|Dick Hall]] from the [[1960 Kansas City Athletics season|Athletics]] to the [[1961 Baltimore Orioles season|Orioles]] for [[Chuck Essegian]] and [[Jerry Walker]].<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=t88zAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7fcDAAAAIBAJ&pg=2723%2C2179892 "Orioles gain Hall, Williams," ''United Press International'' (UPI), Thursday, April 13, 1961.] Retrieved February 28, 2023.</ref> He never played for Houston; he was acquired in an off-season "paper transaction" on October 12, 1962, then traded to the Red Sox for another outfielder, [[Carroll Hardy]], on December 10.

His two-year playing career in Boston was uneventful, except for one occasion. On June 27, 1963, Williams was victimized by one of the greatest catches in [[Fenway Park]] history. His long drive to the opposite field was snagged by Cleveland right fielder [[Al Luplow]], who made a leaping catch at the wall and tumbled into the [[bullpen]] with the ball in his grasp.<ref>[http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1120015/index.htm ''Sports Illustrated'', October 14, 1985]</ref>

===Managerial career===
====An "Impossible Dream" in Boston====
On October 14, 1964, after a [[1964 in baseball|season]] during which Williams hit a career-low .159, the Red Sox handed him his unconditional release. At 35, Williams was at a career crossroads: Richards gave him a [[spring training]] invitation but no guarantee that he would make the [[1965 Houston Astros season|1965 Astros']] playing roster; the Red Sox offered Williams a job as playing coach with their [[Triple-A (baseball)|Triple-A]] farm team, the [[Seattle Rainiers]] of the [[Pacific Coast League]]. Looking to begin a post-playing career in baseball, Williams accepted the Seattle assignment. Within days, a shuffle in 1965 affiliations forced Boston to move its top minor league team to the [[Toronto Maple Leafs (International League)|Toronto Maple Leafs]] of the [[International League]]. This caused the Red Sox' Triple-A manager, Seattle native [[Edo Vanni]], to resign in order to remain in the Pacific Northwest. With a sudden opening for the Toronto job, Williams was promoted to manager of the 1965 Leafs. As a novice pilot, Williams adopted a hard-nosed, disciplinarian style and won two consecutive [[Governors' Cup]] championships with teams laden with young Red Sox prospects. He then signed a one-year contract to manage the [[1967 Boston Red Sox season|1967 Red Sox]].

Boston had suffered through eight straight seasons of losing baseball, and attendance had fallen to such an extent that owner [[Tom Yawkey]] was threatening to move the team. The Red Sox had talented young players, but the team was known as a lazy "country club." As Carl Yastrzemski commented, "if you don't keep your nose to the grindstone you won't (win) ... we kept our noses so far away from the grindstone we couldn't even see it."<ref>Sport magazine, November 1967</ref>

Williams decided to risk everything and impose discipline on his players. He vowed that "we will win more ballgames than we lose" — a bold statement for a club that had finished only a half-game from last place in [[1966 Boston Red Sox season|1966]]. The only team with a worse record than the Red Sox was their arch-rival, the [[New York Yankees]], who were headed in a downward spiral only two years after losing the 1964 World Series to the [[St. Louis Cardinals]] in seven games. In spring training, Williams drilled players in fundamentals for hours.  He issued fines for curfew violations, and insisted his players put the success of the team before their own.  In Yastrzemski's words, "Dick Williams didn't take anything when he took over the club last spring ... to the best of my knowledge—and I would know if it had happened—no one challenged Williams all season."<ref>://Sport {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130713073457/http://sport/ |date=July 13, 2013 }} magazine, November 1967</ref>

The Red Sox began 1967 playing better baseball and employing the aggressive style of play that Williams had learned with the Dodgers. Williams benched players for lack of effort and poor performance, and battled tooth and nail with umpires. Through the [[1967 Major League Baseball All-Star Game|All-Star]] break, Boston fulfilled Williams' promise and played better than .500 ball, hanging close to the American League's four contending teams — the [[1967 Detroit Tigers season|Detroit Tigers]], [[1967 Minnesota Twins season|Minnesota Twins]], [[1967 Chicago White Sox season|Chicago White Sox]] and [[1967 California Angels season|California Angels]]. Outfielder [[Carl Yastrzemski]], in his seventh season with the Red Sox, transformed his hitting style to become a pull-hitter, eventually winning the 1967 AL [[triple crown (baseball)|Triple Crown]], leading the league in batting average, home runs (tying [[Harmon Killebrew]] of the Twins), and [[runs batted in|RBI]].

[[File:Mayor John F. Collins reads an official proclamation declaring last Tuesday as Boston Red Sox Day (13847869194).jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.5|Williams (fourth from left) and other Red Sox personnel with [[Mayor of Boston]] [[John F. Collins]] (at right) in October 1967]]
In late July, the Red Sox rattled off a 10-game winning streak on the road and came home to a riotous welcome from 10,000 fans at Boston's [[Logan Airport]]. The Red Sox inserted themselves into a five-team pennant race, and stayed in the hunt despite the loss of star outfielder [[Tony Conigliaro]] to a [[beanball]] on August 18. On the closing weekend of the season, led by Yastrzemski and 22-game-winning [[pitcher]] [[Jim Lonborg]], Boston defeated the Twins in two head-to-head games, while Detroit split its series with the Angels. The [[1967 Boston Red Sox season|"Impossible Dream"]] Red Sox had won their first AL pennant since [[1946 Boston Red Sox season|1946]], then they extended the highly talented and heavily favored [[1967 St. Louis Cardinals season|St. Louis Cardinals]] to seven games in the [[1967 World Series]], losing to the great [[Bob Gibson]] three times.

Despite the Series loss, the Red Sox were the toasts of [[New England]]; Williams was named Major League Manager of the Year by ''[[The Sporting News]]'' and signed to a new three-year contract. But he would not serve it out. In [[1968 Boston Red Sox season|1968]], the team fell to fourth place when Conigliaro could not return from his head injury, and Williams' two top pitchers — Lonborg and [[José Santiago (1960s pitcher)|José Santiago]] — suffered sore arms. He began to clash with Yastrzemski, and with owner Yawkey. With [[1969 Boston Red Sox season|his club]] a distant third in the [[American League East Division|AL East]], Williams was fired on [[September 23]], 1969 and replaced by [[Eddie Popowski]] for the last nine games of the season.<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2519&dat=19690924&id=euhdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=H18NAAAAIBAJ&pg=790,3374939 Eldridge, Larry. "Williams Fired By Red Sox," ''The Associated Press (AP)'', Wednesday September 24, 1969.] Retrieved August 18, 2019</ref>

====Two titles in a row in Oakland====
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After spending 1970 as the third base coach of the [[1970 Montreal Expos season|Montreal Expos]], working under [[Gene Mauch]], Williams returned to the managerial ranks the [[1971 in baseball|next year]] as boss of the [[Oakland Athletics]], owned by [[Charlie Finley]]. The iconoclastic Finley had signed some of the finest talent in baseball – including [[Catfish Hunter]], [[Reggie Jackson]], [[Sal Bando]], [[Bert Campaneris]], [[Rollie Fingers]] and [[Joe Rudi]] that were described by Finley as the "[[Swingin' A's]]" – but his players hated him for his penny-pinching and constant meddling in the team's affairs. During his first decade as the Athletics' owner, [[1961 Kansas City Athletics season|1961]]–[[1970 Oakland Athletics season|1970]], Finley had changed managers a total of ten times.

Inheriting a second-place team from predecessor [[John McNamara (baseball)|John McNamara]], Williams promptly directed the A's to 101 victories and their first [[American League West Division|AL West]] title in [[1971 Oakland Athletics season|1971]] behind another brilliant young player, pitcher [[Vida Blue]]. Despite being humbled in the [[1971 American League Championship Series|ALCS]] by the defending World Champion [[1972 Baltimore Orioles season|Orioles]], Finley brought Williams back for [[1972 Oakland Athletics season|1972]], when the "Oakland Dynasty" began. Off the field, the A's players brawled with each other and defied baseball's tonsorial code. Because long hair, [[The Mustache Gang|mustaches and beards]] were now the rage in the "civilian" world, Finley decided on a mid-season promotion encouraging his men to wear their hair long and grow facial hair. Fingers adopted his trademark handlebar mustache (which he still has to this day); Williams himself grew a mustache.

Of course, talent, not hairstyle, truly defined the Oakland Dynasty of the early 1970s. The 1972 A's won their division by 5½ games over the White Sox and led the league in home runs, shutouts and [[save (sport)|saves]]. They defeated the Tigers in a bitterly fought [[1972 American League Championship Series|ALCS]], and found themselves facing the [[1972 Cincinnati Reds season|Cincinnati Reds]] in the [[1972 World Series|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 catcher [[Gene Tenace]] and the managerial maneuvering of Williams resulted in a seven-game World Series victory for the A's, their first championship since [[1930 Philadelphia Athletics season|1930]], when they played in [[Philadelphia]].

In 1973, with Williams back for an unprecedented (for the Finley era) third straight campaign, the [[1973 Oakland Athletics season|A's]] again coasted to a division title, then defeated [[1973 Baltimore Orioles season|Baltimore]] in the [[1973 American League Championship Series|ALCS]] and the NL champion [[1973 New York Mets season|New York Mets]] in the [[1973 World Series|World Series]] – each hard-fought series going the limit. With their World Series win, Oakland became baseball's first repeat champion since the [[1961 New York Yankees season|1961]]–[[1962 New York Yankees season|62]] [[New York Yankees]]. But Williams had a surprise for Finley. Tired of his owner's meddling, and upset by Finley's public humiliation of second baseman [[Mike Andrews]] for his fielding miscues during the World Series, Williams resigned. [[George Steinbrenner]], then finishing his [[1973 New York Yankees season|first season]] as owner of the Yankees, immediately signed Williams as his manager. However, Finley protested that Williams owed Oakland the final year of his contract and could not manage anywhere else, and so Steinbrenner hired [[Bill Virdon]] instead.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1734&dat=19740102&id=v5AbAAAAIBAJ&pg=2119,336641|title=The Dispatch – Google News Archive Search|access-date=February 26, 2016}}</ref> Williams was the first manager in A's franchise history to leave the team with a winning record after running it for two full seasons.

====From Southern California to Montreal and back====

====California Angels====
Seemingly at the peak of his career, Williams began the [[1974 in baseball|1974 season]] out of work. But when the [[1974 California Angels season|Angels]] struggled under manager [[Bobby Winkles]], team owner [[Gene Autry]] received Finley's permission to negotiate with Williams, and in mid-season Williams was back in a big-league dugout. The change in management, though, did not alter the fortunes of the Angels, as they finished in last place, 22 games behind the [[1974 Oakland Athletics season|A's]], who would win their third straight World Championship under Williams' replacement, [[Alvin Dark]].

Overall, Williams' Anaheim tenure turned out to be a miserable one.  He did not have nearly as much talent as he'd had to work with in Boston and Oakland, and the Angels did not respond to Williams' somewhat authoritarian managing style.  They finished last in the AL West again in [[1975 California Angels season|1975]].  During the 1975 season, [[Boston Red Sox]] pitcher [[Bill Lee (left-handed pitcher)|Bill Lee]] stated that the Angels' hitters were "so weak, they could hold batting practice in the Boston Sheraton hotel lobby and not hit the chandelier".  Williams responded by having his team actually do so before the game (using Wiffle balls and bats) with the Red Sox until hotel security put a stop to it.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/former-manager-williams-fed-up-with-todays-game/|title = Former manager Williams fed up with today's game|date = July 30, 2007}}</ref>    The Angels were 18 games below .500 (and in the midst of a player revolt) in  [[1976 California Angels season|1976]] when Williams was fired July 22.

====Montreal Expos====
In [[1977 Montreal Expos season|1977]], he returned to Montreal as manager of the Expos where he remained for 5 years (Williams' longest stint as manager), who had just come off 107 losses and a last-place finish in the [[National League East|NL East]]. Team president [[John McHale (baseball)|John McHale]] had been impressed with Williams' efforts in Boston and Oakland, and thought he was what the Expos needed to finally become a winner.

After cajoling the Expos into improved, but below .500, performances in his first two seasons, Williams turned the [[1979 Montreal Expos season|1979]]–[[1980 Montreal Expos season|80]] Expos into pennant contenders. The team won over 90 games both years—the first winning seasons in franchise history.  The 1979 unit won 95 games, the most that the franchise would win in Montreal. However, they finished second each time to the eventual World Champion (the [[1979 Pittsburgh Pirates season|Pittsburgh Pirates]] in 1979 and the [[1980 Philadelphia Phillies season|Philadelphia Phillies]] in 1980). Williams was never afraid to give young players a chance to play, and his Expos teams were flush with young talent, including All-Stars such as outfielder [[Andre Dawson]] and catcher [[Gary Carter]].  With a solid core of young players and a fruitful farm system, the Expos seemed a lock to contend for a long time to come.

But Williams' hard edge alienated his players—especially his pitchers—and ultimately wore out his welcome. He labeled pitcher [[Steve Rogers (baseball)|Steve Rogers]] a fraud with "king of the mountain syndrome" – meaning that Rogers had been a good pitcher on a bad team for so long that he was unable to "step up" when the team became good. Williams also lost confidence in [[Closer (baseball)|closer]] [[Jeff Reardon]], whom the Montreal front office had acquired in a much publicized trade with the Mets for [[Ellis Valentine]]. When the [[1981 Montreal Expos season|1981 Expos]] performed below expectations, Williams was fired during the pennant drive on September 7. With the arrival of his easy-going successor [[Jim Fanning]], who restored Reardon to the closer's role, the inspired Expos made the playoffs for the only time in their 36-year history in Montreal. However, they fell in heartbreaking fashion to [[Rick Monday]] and the eventual World Champion [[1981 Los Angeles Dodgers season|Los Angeles Dodgers]] in a five-game [[1981 National League Championship Series|NLCS]].

====San Diego Padres====
Williams was not unemployed for long, however.  In [[1982 San Diego Padres season|1982]], he took over the [[San Diego Padres]]. By 1984, he had guided the Padres to their first [[National League West Division|NL West Division]] championship. In the [[1984 National League Championship Series|NLCS]], the NL East champion [[1984 Chicago Cubs season|Chicago Cubs]] – making their first postseason appearance since [[1945 Chicago Cubs season|1945]] – won Games 1 and 2, but Williams' Padres took the next three games in a miraculous comeback to win the pennant. In the [[1984 World Series|World Series]], however, San Diego was no match for [[Sparky Anderson]]'s [[1984 Detroit Tigers season|Detroit Tigers]], a team that had won 104 games during the regular season.  Although the Tigers won the Series in five games, both Williams and Anderson joined Dark, [[Joe McCarthy (manager)|Joe McCarthy]], and [[Yogi Berra]] as managers who had won pennants in both major leagues ([[Tony La Russa]] joined this group in 2004, [[Jim Leyland]] followed suit in 2006, followed by [[Joe Maddon]] in 2016, [[Dusty Baker]] in 2021 and [[Bruce Bochy]]—a backup catcher on that Padres team—in 2023.)

The Padres fell to third in [[1985 San Diego Padres season|1985]], and Williams was let go as manager just before [[1986 San Diego Padres season|1986]] spring training.  His record with the Padres was 337–311 over four seasons. As of 2011, he was the only manager in the team's history without a losing season.<ref name=center>{{cite news |last=Center |first=Bill |title=Padres manager Williams' fire never dimmed |date=July 7, 2011 |newspaper=[[The San Diego Union-Tribune]] |url=http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/jul/07/williams-fire-never-dimmed/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110712121354/http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/jul/07/williams-fire-never-dimmed/ |archive-date=July 12, 2011 |url-status=dead |df=mdy }}</ref> His difficulties with the Padres stemmed from a power struggle with team president [[Ballard_F._Smith|Ballard Smith]] and general manager [[Jack McKeon]].<ref name=center/>  Williams was a hire of team owner (and [[McDonald's]] restaurant magnate) [[Ray Kroc]], whose health was failing.  McKeon and Smith (who also happened to be Kroc's son-in-law) were posturing to buy the team and viewed Williams as a threat to their plans.  With his San Diego tenure at an end, it appeared that Williams' managerial career was finished.

====Final seasons in uniform====
When another perennial loser, the [[Seattle Mariners]], lost 19 of their first 28 games in [[1986 Seattle Mariners season|1986]] under [[Chuck Cottier]], Williams came back to the American League West on May 6 for the first time in almost a decade. The Mariners showed some life that season and almost reached .500 the [[1987 Seattle Mariners season|following season]]. However, Williams' autocratic managing style no longer resonated with the new generation of ballplayers. He tried to play injury-plagued [[Gorman Thomas]] in the outfield, but was rebuked by the Mariners' front office because of Thomas' medical history, namely his rotator cuff.  Also, Williams had trouble relating to the devoutly religious Mariners' players, namely [[Alvin Davis]].  Williams was fired on June 8, 1988, with [[1988 Seattle Mariners season|Seattle]] 23–33 and in sixth place.  It would be his last major-league managing job. Williams' career won-loss totals were 1,571 wins and 1,451 losses over 21 seasons.

In 1989, Williams was named manager of the [[West Palm Beach Tropics]] of the [[Senior Professional Baseball Association]], a league featuring mostly former major league players 35 years of age and older. The Tropics went 52–20 in the regular season and ran away with the Southern Division title. Despite their regular season dominance, the Tropics lost 12–4 to the [[St. Petersburg Pelicans]] in the league's championship game. The Tropics folded at the end of the season, and the rest of the league folded a year later.

He remained in the game, however, as a special consultant to [[George Steinbrenner]] and the [[New York Yankees]]. In 1990, Williams published his autobiography, ''No More Mister Nice Guy''. His acrimonious departure in 1969 distanced Williams from the Red Sox for the remainder of the Yawkey ownership period (through 2001), but after the change in ownership and management that followed, he was selected to the [[Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame]] in 2006.

Williams' number was retired by the [[Fort Worth Cats]].  The Cats were a popular minor league team in Fort Worth and Williams played there during 1948, 1949 and 1950, while he was working his way through the Dodgers' system. Moreover, Williams—in his Hall off Fame speech—cited [[Bobby Bragan]], his Fort Worth manager, as a significant influence on his own career.  After the [[Texas League]] Cats finally disbanded in 1964, they returned as an [[independent league baseball|independent league]] team in 2001.  These "New" Cats retired Williams' number.

===Hall of Fame induction===
Williams was [[Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, 2008|elected]] to the [[National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum|Baseball Hall of Fame]] by the [[Veterans Committee]] in December 2007, and was inducted on July 27, 2008.<ref>[https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=AnictCTk2DuP0kztE89BCZ0RvLYF?slug=ap-halloffame&prov=ap&type=lgns Delighted Tanner calls protege Gossage `My Marilyn Monroe' – MLB – Yahoo! Sports<!-- Bot generated title -->]{{dead link|date=May 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> He was inducted into the [[San Diego Padres Hall of Fame]] in 2009.<ref>{{cite web |title=Padres Hall of Fame |work=padres.mlb.com |url=http://sandiego.padres.mlb.com/sd/history/sd_padres_hof.jsp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140816175529/http://sandiego.padres.mlb.com/sd/history/sd_padres_hof.jsp |archive-date=August 16, 2014 |url-status=live |df=mdy }}</ref>

===Managerial record===

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%; text-align:center;"
|-
! rowspan="2"|Team !! rowspan="2"|Year !! colspan="5"|Regular season !! colspan="4"|Postseason
|-
!Games!!Won!!Lost!!Win %!!Finish!! Won !! Lost !! Win % !! Result
|-
|-style="background:#fdd"
![[1967 Boston Red Sox season|BOS]]|| {{mlby|1967}}
||162||92||70||{{Winning percentage|92|70}}|| '''1st in AL''' || 3 || 4 || .429 || Lost [[1967 World Series|World Series]] ([[1967 St. Louis Cardinals season|STL]])
|-
![[1968 Boston Red Sox season|BOS]]|| {{mlby|1968}}
||162||86||76||{{Winning percentage|86|76}}|| 4th in AL || – || – || – || –
|-
![[1969 Boston Red Sox season|BOS]]|| {{mlby|1969}}
||153||82||71||{{Winning percentage|82|71}}|| fired || – || – || – || –
|-
! colspan="2"|BOS total || 477 || 260 || 217 || {{Winning percentage|260|217}} || || 3 || 4 || .429 ||
|-style="background:#fdd"
![[1971 Oakland Athletics season|OAK]] || {{mlby|1971}}
||161||101||60||{{Winning percentage|101|60}}|| '''1st in AL West''' || 0 || 3 || .000 || Lost [[1971 American League Championship Series|ALCS]] ([[1971 Baltimore Orioles season|BAL]])
|-style="background:#fde910"
![[1972 Oakland Athletics season|OAK]] || {{mlby|1972}}
||155||93||62||{{Winning percentage|93|62}}|| '''1st in AL West''' || 7 || 5 || .583 || '''Won [[1972 World Series|World Series]] ([[1972 Cincinnati Reds season|CIN]])'''
|-style="background:#fde910"
![[1973 Oakland Athletics season|OAK]] || {{mlby|1973}}
||162||94||68||{{Winning percentage|94|68}}|| '''1st in AL West''' || 7 || 5 || .583 || '''Won [[1973 World Series|World Series]] ([[1973 New York Mets season|NYM]])'''
|-
! colspan="2"|OAK total || 478 || 288 || 190 || {{Winning percentage|288|190}} || || 14 || 13 || {{Winning percentage|14|13}} ||
|-
![[1974 California Angels season|CAL]]|| {{mlby|1974}}
||84||36||48||{{Winning percentage|36|48}}|| 6th in AL West || – || – || – || –
|-
![[1975 California Angels season|CAL]]|| {{mlby|1975}}
||161||72||89||{{Winning percentage|72|89}}|| 6th in AL West || – || – || – || –
|-
![[1976 California Angels season|CAL]]|| {{mlby|1976}}
||96||39||57||{{Winning percentage|39|57}}|| fired || – || – || – || –
|-
! colspan="2"|CAL total || 341 || 147 || 194 || {{Winning percentage|147|194}} || || 0 || 0 || – ||
|-
![[1977 Montreal Expos season|MON]]|| {{mlby|1977}}
||162||75||87||{{Winning percentage|75|87}}|| 5th in NL East || – || – || – || –
|-
![[1978 Montreal Expos season|MON]]|| {{mlby|1978}}
||162||76||86||{{Winning percentage|76|86}}|| 4th in NL East || – || – || – || –
|-
![[1979 Montreal Expos season|MON]]|| {{mlby|1979}}
||160||95||65||{{Winning percentage|95|65}}|| 2nd in NL East || – || – || – || –
|-
![[1980 Montreal Expos season|MON]]|| {{mlby|1980}}
||162||92||70||{{Winning percentage|92|70}}|| 2nd in NL East || – || – || – || –
|-
!rowspan="2"| [[1981 Montreal Expos season|MON]]|| rowspan="2"| {{mlby|1981}}
||55||30||25||{{Winning percentage|30|25}}|| 3rd in NL East || rowspan="2"| – || rowspan="2"| – || rowspan="2"| – || rowspan="2"| –
|-
||26||14||12||{{Winning percentage|0|0}}|| fired
|-
! colspan="2"|MON total || 727 || 380 || 347 || {{Winning percentage|380|347}} || || 0 || 0 || – ||
|-
![[1982 San Diego Padres season|SD]]|| {{mlby|1982}}
||162||81||81||{{Winning percentage|81|81}}|| 4th in NL West || – || – || – || –
|-
![[1983 San Diego Padres season|SD]]|| {{mlby|1983}}
||162||81||81||{{Winning percentage|81|81}}|| 4th in NL West || – || – || – || –
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![[1984 San Diego Padres season|SD]]|| {{mlby|1984}}
||162||92||70||{{Winning percentage|92|70}}|| '''1st in NL West''' || 4 || 6 || .400 || Lost [[1984 World Series|World Series]] ([[1984 Detroit Tigers season|DET]])
|-
![[1985 San Diego Padres season|SD]]|| {{mlby|1985}}
||162||83||79||{{Winning percentage|83|79}}|| 3rd in NL West || – || – || – || –
|-
! colspan="2"|SD total || 648 || 337 || 311 || {{Winning percentage|337|311}} || || 4 || 6 || .400 ||
|-
![[1986 Seattle Mariners season|SEA]]|| {{mlby|1986}}
||133||58||75||{{Winning percentage|58|75}}|| 7th in AL West || – || – || – || –
|-
![[1987 Seattle Mariners season|SEA]]|| {{mlby|1987}}
||162||78||84||{{Winning percentage|78|84}}|| 4th in AL West || – || – || – || –
|-
![[1988 Seattle Mariners season|SEA]]|| {{mlby|1988}}
||56||23||33||{{Winning percentage|23|33}}|| fired || – || – || – || –
|-
! colspan="2"|SEA total || 351 || 159 || 192 || {{Winning percentage|159|192}} || || 0 || 0 || – ||
|-
! colspan="2"|Total<ref>{{cite web|title=Dick Williams|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/managers/willidi02.shtml|website=Baseball Reference|publisher=Sports Reference|access-date=October 1, 2015}}</ref> || 3022 || 1571 || 1451 || {{Winning percentage|1571|1451}} || || 21 || 23 || {{Winning percentage|21|23}} || 
|}

==Personal life==
Williams was an [[Extra (acting)|extra]] in the 1950 movie ''[[The Jackie Robinson Story]]''.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/60488902/williams-was-versatile/ |title=Williams Was Versatile |first=Russ |last=Smith |newspaper=[[The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier|Waterloo Daily Courier]] |location=[[Waterloo, Iowa]] |page=21 |date=October 11, 1967 |access-date=October 4, 2020 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UyeibL5yEc&t=47m58s  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/4UyeibL5yEc |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title=The Jackie Robinson Story (1950) |via=[[YouTube]] |access-date=October 4, 2020}}{{cbignore}}</ref> Before Williams became a major league manager in 1967, he successfully appeared on the television quiz shows ''[[Match Game]]'' and the original ''[[Hollywood Squares]]''. According to [[Peter Marshall (U.S. entertainer)|Peter Marshall]]'s ''Backstage with the Original Hollywood Squares'', Williams won $50,000 as a contestant on the latter show.

His son, [[Rick Williams (baseball, born 1956)|Rick Williams]], a former minor league pitcher and major league pitching coach, became a professional scout for the [[Atlanta Braves]]. 

Williams died of a ruptured aortic [[aneurysm]] at a hospital near his home in [[Henderson, Nevada]], on July 7, 2011.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=6746798 | title=Hall of Fame manager Dick Williams dies at 82 | publisher=[[ESPN]] | date=July 7, 2011 | agency=[[Associated Press]]; Friend, Tom | access-date=July 7, 2011 | author=ESPN.com news services}}</ref>

===Arrest===
In January 2000, Williams pleaded no contest to [[indecent exposure]] charges in Florida.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.espn.com/mlb/news/2000/0128/320663.html |title=Williams in court for indecent exposure |agency=[[Associated Press|AP]] |website=ESPN.com |date=January 28, 2000}}</ref><ref name=arrest/> The complaint against him alleged that he was "walking naked and masturbating" on the balcony outside his hotel room.<ref name=denial/> Williams subsequently stated that he was not aware of the details of the complaint when he pleaded no contest, and that although he was standing naked at the balcony door, he was not on the balcony and was not masturbating.<ref name=denial/>

This occurred just weeks before Baseball Hall of Fame balloting by the [[Veterans Committee]].<ref name=denial>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/60488275/williams-offers-an-explanation/ |title=Williams offers an explanation |first=Bill |last=Madden |newspaper=[[New York Daily News]] |page=70 |date=January 30, 2000 |access-date=October 4, 2020 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref> Williams' arrest appeared to impact consideration by the committee,<ref name=JackCurry/> and he would not be inducted to the Baseball Hall of Fame until 2008. "What happened to me down in [[Fort Myers, Florida|Fort Myers]] when I was arrested evidently hurt me quite a bit", Williams told ''The New York Times''.<ref name=JackCurry>{{cite news |first=Jack |last=Curry |title=BASEBALL; Anderson Saunters In As Doors to Hall Open |work=The New York Times |page=D2 |date=March 1, 2000 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/01/sports/baseball-anderson-saunters-in-as-doors-to-hall-open.html |via=nytimes.com |url-access=limited}}</ref><ref name=arrest>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/60488060/as-williams-dies-at-82/ |title=A's Williams dies at 82 |first=Roger |last=Rubin |newspaper=[[New York Daily News]] |page=80 |date=July 8, 2011 |access-date=October 4, 2020 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[List of Major League Baseball managers by wins]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
*Cooper, Steve, ''Red Sox Diehard'', 1967 season retrospective. Boston: Dunfey Publishing Co., 1987.
*Stout, Glenn and Johnson, Richard A., ''Red Sox Century.''  Boston and New York: Houghton-Mifflin Co., 2000.
*Williams, Dick, and Plaschke, Bill, ''No More Mr. Nice Guy: A Life of Hardball.'' San Diego: Harcourt, Brace & Jovanovitch, 1990.

==External links==
{{Portal|Biography|Baseball}}
*{{Baseball Hall of Fame profile|williams-dick}}
*{{baseballstats|mlb=|espn=|br=w/willidi02|fangraphs=|brm=willia007ric|retro=W/Pwilld104}}
*{{baseball-reference manager|willidi02}}
* {{SABR Baseball Biography Project|2f23625c}}
*[https://baseballbiography.com/dick-williams-1929 Dick Williams] at Baseball Biography
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