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Hall of Fame baseball manager Dick Williams dies
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Posted: Jul. 7, 2011 | 12:11 p.m.
Updated: Jul. 7, 2011 | 12:28 p.m.
Dick Williams, the fiercely competitive, sharp-tongued Hall of Fame manager who led the Oakland Athletics to World Series titles in 1972 and 1973, died today at his Las Vegas home from what was believed to be a brain aneurysm. He was 82.

Williams, who retired to Las Vegas in 1991, is the only manager in major-league history to win pennants with three different teams -- the Boston Red Sox, Athletics and San Diego Padres. He had a 21-year major league managing record of 1,571-1,421 (.520).

Williams was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2008 following his election by the Veterans Committee.
 

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The Red Sox honored former manager Dick Williams with a video tribute in the fourth inning, highlighting the “Impossible Dream” pennant winners managed by Williams. The tribute showed highlights of Boston’s surprise turnaround and first World Series appearance since 1946 to the tune of “Dream the Impossible Dream” from the musical “Man of La Mancha.” Williams died Thursday at age 82
 

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