Former Rams lineman John Williams dies at 66

John Williams, one of his assistants Angeles Rams in 1970, he went to school with the teeth out of season and started a dental practice in Minneapolis after his retirement from football, has died.

He was 66 years.

Williams, who had recently undergone a kidney transplant, died Sunday while on a walk near home, the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

The office of the Hennepin County coroner confirmed his death.

Born in Jackson, Mississippi, 27 October 1945, John McKay, Williams was a football star in high school in Toledo, Ohio. Three-year letterman at the University of Minnesota, was an All-American and All-Big Ten offensive assistants in 1967, when the ground squirrels went 8-2 and won the title role in the conference .

In the 1968 NFL draft, the Baltimore Colts selected him in the first round, 23 overall. He played four seasons with the Colts and went to two Super Bowls, winning a ring with the team's 16-13 victory over Dallas after the 1970 season.

Williams was traded to the Rams to a No. 1 pick in 1972 and started at right offensive tackle for six years. He played as a guard in 1979, when the Rams advanced to the Super Bowl, losing to the Pittsburgh Steelers, 31-19, in January 1980.

At this time, Williams had a plan for his life after football. He earned a degree in education from Minnesota, but really wanted to be a dentist, so he began taking classes at the University of Maryland at Baltimore.

"I knew I was doing the right thing, when I could not get a decent off-season work in 1970 after playing in the Super Bowl team in Baltimore," he told The Times in 1978.

It took five years as part-time student, before he received his doctorate in dentistry. He retired from the NFL after tearing a calf muscle during the 1979 season and returned to Minneapolis to open his dental clinic.

The 6 feet 3 inches and 256 pounds described his work with patients outside the field in the interview with the Times.

"There is curiosity and a little" normal fan-athlete identification, "he said." But most important is a good value. Rapport is all in dentistry. The ability to inspire confidence. "

In Minneapolis, Williams has worked to revitalize the city neighborhood where he established his business and was named Volunteer of the Year in the city in 1992.

Trained in Forensic Dentistry, Williams joined a team of public health professionals who helped identify the remains of the victims after the attacks of 9/11 terrorists.

"A terrible," said Williams in Minneapolis Star Tribune in 2002.

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Pro baseball star Doris Sams Dies at 85

Doris Sams, who pitched a perfect game and established a home in one season of professional baseball record for home runs by women in the world 1940 and the 50's that inspired the movie "A League of Their Own , "died Thursday in Knoxville, Tennessee for 85 years.

The cause was complications of Alzheimer's disease, said his cousins ​​Gordon Sams.

Sams was one of the leaders of the League All-American Girls Professional Baseball, founded in 1943 by Phil Wrigley, the owner of the Chicago Cubs, to provide entertainment for the night in the cities of the Midwest and maintain interest in baseball alive when the children were losing most of its players to military service in World War II.

League of Women, which survived in 1954, was largely forgotten until the 1992 Hollywood comedy with Madonna and Geena Davis and Tom Hanks as a field manager who led the profane to the players of their tears and cried after the loss of famous "Can not cry in baseball!"

Play for real women for women in vibrant and highly competitive athletes who have often been managed by former major league players and played through them many abrasions, or "strawberry", scroll through your uniforms in a short skirt.

"We had a lot of girls who can play and that really understands the game, and administrators appreciate that," Sams told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1989.

Playing Michigan Muskegon Lasser and his successor franchise, the Kalamazoo Lasser, 1946 to 1953, Sams, who was 5 feet 9 inches and wore glasses, strong arm shrewd, side and overhead, as the rules governing the delivery is developed.

A record 12 homers in the league in 1952, playing in 109 games, beat by better than 300 in each of his last four seasons, he threw several brokers play in the gardens when not pitching, and was player of the league of "In the 1947 and 1949.

Once he won the duel of the Rockford Peaches of Lois Florreich through 22 entries, winning 1-0, to remember, a game that was tied after seven innings of date because of the short game dual listings.

"After that, I told my boss:" I do not want spread over seven innings games are too long. "Macy Sue Sams quoted as saying in the history of the league," a new game "(1993).

Sams has launched his perfect game in August 1947, retiring 27 batters to the daisies in Fort Wayne to win 2-0, then threw a party with no hits in the next year Salles Springfield.

He attributes his gardeners with several dazzling play this game perfect.

"The last shot, a girl has pushed almost to the throat," he told The New York Times in 1988, when the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, introduced a permanent exhibition of the ball female baseball. "I 'bounced off his knee, I almost tore the patella, and the whereabouts made a short stop and took off."

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