BILLY WILLIAMS - INSCRIBED BASEBALL SIGNED CO-SIGNED BY: STEVE GARVEY - HFSID 291036

STEVE GARVEY and BILLY WILLIAMS
Both sign a baseball bearing a Cubs sticker. Williams has added an inscription and his NL record consecutive game total. Garvey has added the year he topped Williams' mark.
Baseball inscribed and signed: "To Richard/Best Always/Billy Williams [and in another side panel] 1117 Games", "Best Regards/Steve Garvey/83". Rawlings Official National League Baseball, Charles S. Feeney, President. Cubs sticker affixed. Ink note (unknown hand): "1117 Games". Sweet-swinging BILLY WILLIAMS (b. 1938) was a dependable star for 14 full seasons as a Cub. From 1963 to 1970, he established a National League record of 1,117 consecutive games played that stood until Steve Garvey broke it in 1983. He also set NL marks for regular season games played by an outfielder in one season (164 in 1965) and consecutive years with 600 or more at-bats (nine, from 1962 to '70, broken by Pete Rose). He tied major league records with five homers in two consecutive games (September 8 and 10, 1968), and four consecutive doubles in a game (April 9, 1969). Williams had his most productive season in 1970, leading the NL in hits and in runs scored. He retired after batting .211 in 1976 and was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1987. STEVE GARVEY (b. 1948) played an NL-record 1,207 consecutive games. (The Major League record was the AL's Lou Gehrig at the time (2,130), until Cal Ripken, Jr. passed that total in 1995 on his way to 2,632.) Garvey was elected to the All-Star team as a write-in candidate in 1974, and was voted MVP of the game and the season. Garvey's name would not be left off the All-Star ballot again, and he was elected as a starter the next six years. In ten All-Star Games he hit .393, and his slugging average of .955 is the highest of any player with more than 20 at-bats. The winner of four Gold Gloves, Garvey retired with a .996 fielding average. He played on 4 LA Dodger championship teams. Garvey's "Mr. Clean" image during his playing days has been sullied by a bankruptcy resulting from child support paid to several women. In 2011, he was fired from a public relations with the Dodgers for trying to organize a buy-out of the financially troubled franchise. Partially shallacked and toned. Signatures lightly beaded but legible. Otherwise, fine condition.