Bucky Williams
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Born: Baltimore, Maryland | December 15, 1906|
Died: November 16, 2009 Penn Hills, Pennsylvania | (aged 102)
Wallace “Bucky” Williams (December 15, 1906 – November 16, 2009) was a Negro league baseball player and, at the time of his death, the second oldest living former Negro league player behind 104-year-old Emilio Navarro. Williams was a team member for the Pittsburgh Crawfords (1927–1932) and Homestead Grays in 1936. He was known to play earlier with the Pittsburgh Monarchs.
He was born in Baltimore, Maryland, a son to Joseph and Mathilda Williams. At the age of six months he moved to Pittsburgh and was a member of St. Charles Lwanga Parish in Pittsburgh’s East End. His wife, Marjorie, whom he married in 1936, died in 1976.
Williams worked after his Negro leagues playing days with the Edgar Thomson Steel Works of U.S. Steel in Braddock, Pennsylvania, where he played ball. He is an honorary member of the .[clarification needed] In 1995, he traveled to Kansas City for a gathering of Negro leagues players. To celebrate his 100th birthday a party was held December 16, 2006 at the Churchill Country Club that was attended by family, friends and local community members.
Williams died one month before his 103rd birthday, on November 16, 2009. He is interred in Calvary Cemetery in the Pittsburgh's Hazelwood neighborhood.
External links[]
- Article about Wallace "Bucky" Williams in 2004
- Article mentioning Wallace "Bucky" Williams - June 27, 2006
- Article about "Bucky" Williams July 9. 2006
- Photo of Wallace "Bucky" Williams
- Photo of Wallace "Bucky" Williams sitting in a wheelchair at the dedication of the Oscar Charleston statute
- Bucky Williams' obituary
- Negro league baseball statistics and player information from Seamheads
- 1906 births
- 2009 deaths
- Burials at Calvary Catholic Cemetery (Pittsburgh)
- Pittsburgh Crawfords players
- American centenarians
- Men centenarians
- Baseball players from Pittsburgh
- Baseball players from Baltimore
- Baseball infielders
- 20th-century African-American sportspeople
- 21st-century African-American people