Career Statistics
In a 14 year major league career, Williams played in 1397 games, accumulating 1552 hits in 4862 at bats for a .319 career batting average along with 196 home runs, 913 runs batted in and an on base percentage of .393. He retired with a .958 fielding percentage. As baseball evolved out of the dead-ball era, Williams finished in the top four in the American League in home runs in seven consecutive seasons (1921–1927). He posted ten seasons with a batting average above .300 and, three seasons in which he scored more than 100 runs. As of 2010, Williams' .319 career batting average ranks 57th all-time in major league history. His .924 career on-base plus slugging percentage and his .530 career slugging percentage, rank 45th and 49th respectively all-time among major league players. Williams holds St. Louis Browns/Baltimore Orioles single season record for runs batted in with 155 in 1922. He is the St. Louis Browns all-time leader in On-base percentage (.403), Slugging Percentage (.558) and OPS (.961).
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