Robert Fulton "Ace" Williams (March 18, 1917 – September 16, 1999) was a

pitcher In baseball, the pitcher is the player who throws ("pitches") the baseball from the pitcher's mound toward the catcher to begin each play, with the goal of retiring a batter, who attempts to either make contact with the pitched ball or draw ...

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. He played for the

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. From 1943 to 1945 Williams's baseball career was interrupted while he served in World War II with the

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