DIVA Spotlight - Interview with Dick Williams

Dick Williams, former outfielder, third baseman, and one time manager of the Oakland Athletics, passed away on July 7th, 2011 at the age of 82. The San Francisco Bay Area TV Archive has digitized a KPIX interview with Dick Williams from 1972.

Williams had a long career in Major League Baseball spanning from 1951-1964 as a player and 1967-1988 as a manager of six teams resulting in his induction to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2008. However Bay Area denizens will best remember him for leading the Athletics in two back-to-back World Series championships in 1972 and 1973.

This KPIX interview with Dick Williams from 1972 took place on March 28th, just three days before the first players' strike in Major League history. The strike would wipe out the first thirteen days of the baseball season, but the Athletics would go on to win the World Series against the Cincinnati Reds, 4-3.