Career Statistics
In a 10 year major league career, Williams played in 842 games, accumulating 640 hits in 2,373 at bats for a .270 career batting average along with 33 home runs, 173 runs batted in and an on base percentage of .310. Williams was a good defensive outfielder, committing just 19 errors in 565 games for a fielding percentage of .981. He played the entire 1971 season without committing an error, compiling a 1.000 fielding percentage.
Other career highlights include:
- Williams connected for five hits in one game on May 31, 1970 against Boston. Williams had four singles and a double. In the game, he also scored five runs and drove in two more as the White Sox beat the Red Sox 22-13 at Fenway Park.
- Williams had five games in which he had four hits. In one of those games, on June 20, 1971, he had two singles, a double, and a home runs against the Minnesota Twins in an 18-8 Chicago victory. which he scored four runs with three Runs batted in in an 18-8 win at Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington, Minnesota.
- Williams had 33 games in which he had three hits.
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