Charlie Williams (pitcher)


Charles Prosek Williams was a Major League Baseball pitcher. He is best known for being the player the New York Mets traded to the San Francisco Giants for Willie Mays.

New York Mets

Williams was selected by the Mets in the seventh round of the 1968 Major League Baseball Draft after having played college baseball at Parsons College. After going 21–15 in the minors, he made the Major League club out of Spring training in. On April 23, he made his major league debut at Wrigley Field in Chicago, pitching 2.2 innings and giving up four runs in the Mets' 7–6 extra innings victory over the Cubs. For the season, Williams compiled a 5–6 record, making nine starts, with a 4.78 earned run average and 53 strikeouts.

San Francisco Giants

Williams began the season with the Mets' Triple-A affiliate, the Tidewater Tides, when he was traded to the San Francisco Giants with $50,000 for Willie Mays. Williams appeared in only three games for the Giants that season, spending most of it with their Triple-A affiliate, the Phoenix Giants.
After splitting the season between Phoenix and San Francisco, he made the Giants for good in. His final game was on September 11,, against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Candlestick Park.

After baseball

Following the conclusion of his baseball career, Williams was briefly a New York City taxi driver. He later settled in Port Orange, Florida and died in Daytona Beach on January 27, 2015, from complications resulting from heart surgery.