Charlie Williams

Charles Prosek Williams (October 11, 1947 – January 27, 2015) was a Major League Baseball pitcher, best known for being the player the New York Mets traded to the San Francisco Giants for Willie Mays in .

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 1971. On April 23, he made his major league debut at Wrigley Field in Chicago, pitching 2.2 innings and giving up four runs (two earned) in the Mets' 7–6 extra innings victory over the Cubs (the winning pitcher of the game was future Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan). 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 1972 season with the Mets' Triple-A affiliate, the Tidewater Tides, when he was traded on May 11 to the San Francisco Giants with $50,000 for Willie Mays.