Only a few Major League baseball managers get their teams to the World Series. Even fewer get their teams to more than one World Series. And only a handful have gotten three teams to the Series.
Meet Dick Williams, who guided the Boston Red Sox to the pennant in 1967, the Oakland A’s to three championships in the ’70s and the San Diego Padres to the National League title in 1984.
Along the way, Williams earned a reputation as a hard driving manager who expected nothing but the highest performances from his teams.
It was perhaps natural then that his 1990 memoir would be called No More Mr. Nice Guy. That’s when I had the chance to meet him. So here now from 1990. Dick Williams
Dick Williams was inducted into baseball’s Hall of Fame in 2008. He died in 2011, at the age of 82.