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Lot # 67: Lefty Williams 1916 Chicago White Sox Original Glass Plate Negative

Starting Bid: $100.00

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Item was in Auction "December 2005",
which ran from 11/22/2005 12:00 AM to
11/30/2005 9:00 PM



Lefty Williams pitched for 7 seasons (1913-20) in the American League, the first two with Detroit and the final five with Chicago. In his final 2 seasons he was a 20 game winner. Williams hit his peak, going 22-14 in 1920 but it all fell apart when he became one of eight Black Sox banned from baseball for throwing the 1919 World Series. In that Series he went 0-3 with a 6.61 ERA. What made this particularly troubling was that during the regular season, Williams went 23-11 with a league-leading 40 starts. Original negative (4 x 5”) shows Williams in uniform, posed for the camera, and on the bottom reads “Williams-Sox-1916.”

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