Ken Williams (baseball)
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| Left fielder | |||
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Born: June 28, 1890 Grants Pass, Oregon |
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Died: January 22, 1959 (aged 68) Grants Pass, Oregon |
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| MLB debut | |||
| July 14, 1915, for the Cincinnati Reds | |||
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| August 10, 1929, for the Boston Red Sox | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .319 | ||
| Home runs | 196 | ||
| Runs batted in | 916 | ||
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Kenneth Roy Williams (June 28, 1890 – January 22, 1959) was an American professional baseball player. He played as an outfielder in Major League Baseball from 1915 to 1929. Williams began his major league career with the Cincinnati Reds before spending the majority of his playing days with the St. Louis Browns, and finally ended his career playing for the Boston Red Sox. He batted left-handed and threw right-handed. Williams was the first member of Major League Baseball's 30–30 club, for players who have reached the 30 home runs and 30 stolen bases plateaus in the same season.
Williams began his professional baseball career in 1913 at the age of 23, playing for the Regina Red Sox of the Western Canada League. In 1914, he played for the Edmonton Eskimos before moving to the Spokane Indians in 1915. After posting a .340 batting average in 79 games for the Indians, he made his major league debut with the Cincinnati Reds on July 14, 1915. He hit for a .242 average in 71 games for the Reds during the peak of the dead-ball era when only 6 players in the league hit above the .300 mark. He played in only 10 games for the Reds in 1916, spending most of the season with Spokane and with the Portland Beavers of the Pacific Coast League. Williams hit 24 home runs along with a .313 batting average for Portland in 1917 before being purchased by the St. Louis Browns.
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