finalyear bats death_date death_place birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date article_title debutteam name throws
1948 right 19 march 2000 williston , north dakota durham , north carolina 1944 september 26 .233 3 37 catcher cincinnati reds batting average home runs runs batted in june 28 5 february 1916 dewey williams
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dewey williams

dewey edgar williams -lrb- february 5 , 1916 -- march 19 , 2000 -rrb- nicknamed `` dee '' , was an american professional baseball player .
a catcher , he appeared in 193 games played in the major leagues between and , and was a member of the 1945 chicago cubs , the most recent cub team to win a national league pennant .
williams was a native of durham , north carolina .
he threw and batted right-handed , stood tall and weighed , a slender frame for a catcher .
his professional career lasted for 18 seasons , however -lrb- 1937 -- 1954 -rrb- .
in june 1944 , he was acquired by the cubs after he batted .313 in 48 games for the toronto maple leafs of the top-level international league .
during his rookie 1944 campaign , williams appeared in an mlb-career-high 79 games -lrb- 77 as a catcher -rrb- , and batted .240 with 27 runs batted in .
in , the following season , williams was the cubbies ' third-string catcher -lrb- behind mickey livingston and paul gillespie -rrb- ; nevertheless , he appeared in 59 games and slugged two of his three career mlb home runs that season .
he remained on the cub roster for the 1945 world series , and played in two games .
as a pinch hitter in game 5 , williams struck out against detroit tigers ' ace left-hander hal newhouser .
he was a defensive replacement in game 6 , catching the last three innings , grounding out in his only at bat -lrb- against dizzy trout -rrb- , and handling two chances without an error .
the cubs split the two games in which williams played , but the tigers prevailed in seven games to win the 1945 world championship .
