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Leon Williams
	Leon Theo Williams


	Born: December 2, 1905 in Macon, GA
	Died: November 20, 1984 - 78 years old
	Bats: L	Throws: L	Ht: 5'10"	Wt: 154

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Notes:

Comparison

Relief Pitchers				All Positions
Contemporaries	All-Time	Hall of Famers		Contemporaries	All-Time

#	Player	Yrs	Pos	WAR	Mil	Off	Fld	Pit	Adj
1	Jumbo Brown	1925 - 1941	RP	5.0	WW2	0.1	-0.1	5.0	-0.1
2	Joe Pate	1926 - 1927	RP	3.8		0.1	0.0	3.8	0.0
3	Jack Wisner	1919 - 1926	RP	1.9		-0.4	-0.0	2.3	-0.0
4	Jim Lindsey	1922 - 1937	RP	1.9		-0.5	-0.0	2.3	-0.0
5	Hal Haid	1919 - 1933	RP	1.8		-0.5	-0.0	2.3	-0.0
6	Clyde Barfoot	1922 - 1926	RP	1.5		0.5	0.0	1.0	0.0
7	Claude Jonnard	1921 - 1929	RP	1.3		-1.3	0.0	2.6	0.0
8	Walt Huntzinger	1923 - 1926	RP	1.2		-0.2	-0.0	1.4	-0.0
9	George Smith	1926 - 1930	RP	1.1		0.5	0.0	0.6	0.0
10	Bill Burwell	1920 - 1928	RP	1.1	WW1	-0.3	0.0	1.4	0.0
11	Lefty Willis	1925 - 1927	RP	0.9		-0.2	0.0	1.1	0.0
12	By Speece	1924 - 1930	RP	0.6		-0.3	0.0	0.8	0.0
13	Norm Lehr	1926 - 1926	RP	0.3		-0.1	0.0	0.3	0.0
14	Bud Culloton	1925 - 1926	RP	0.2	WW1	-0.1	0.0	0.3	0.0
15	Mul Holland	1926 - 1929	RP	0.2		0.1	0.0	0.1	0.0
16	Happy Foreman	1924 - 1926	RP	0.1	WW1	-0.1	0.0	0.2	0.0
17	Buster Ross	1924 - 1926	RP	0.1		-0.2	0.0	0.3	0.0
18	Paul Schreiber	1922 - 1945	RP	0.1		-0.1	0.0	0.1	0.0
19	Ned Porter	1926 - 1927	RP	0.0		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
20	Bill Clowers	1926 - 1926	RP	0.0		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
21	Rufus Meadows	1926 - 1926	RP	-0.0		-0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
22	Ken Jones	1924 - 1930	RP	-0.0		-0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
23	Leon Williams	1926 - 1926	RP	-0.1		0.0	0.0	-0.1	0.0
24	Al Smith	1926 - 1926	RP	-0.1		0.0	0.0	-0.1	0.0
25	Pryor McBee	1926 - 1926	RP	-0.1		0.0	0.0	-0.1	0.0
26	Frank Loftus	1926 - 1926	RP	-0.1		0.0	0.0	-0.1	0.0
27	Rusty Yarnall	1926 - 1926	RP	-0.1	WW2	-0.0	0.0	-0.1	0.0
28	Brad Springer	1925 - 1926	RP	-0.2		-0.0	0.0	-0.2	0.0
29	Herb McQuaid	1923 - 1926	RP	-0.2		-0.3	0.0	0.1	0.0
30	Homer Blankenship	1922 - 1928	RP	-0.2		0.0	0.0	-0.3	0.0
31	Mike Kelly	1926 - 1926	RP	-0.3		-0.1	0.0	-0.2	0.0
32	Clarence Blethen	1923 - 1929	RP	-0.3	WW1	-0.1	0.0	-0.2	0.0
33	Jimmy Uchrinscko	1926 - 1926	RP	-0.4		-0.0	0.0	-0.3	0.0
34	Joe Kiefer	1920 - 1926	RP	-0.4	WW1	-0.1	0.0	-0.3	0.0
35	Milt Steengrafe	1924 - 1926	RP	-0.4		-0.3	0.0	-0.1	0.0
36	Les Cox	1926 - 1926	RP	-0.5		-0.0	0.0	-0.5	0.0
37	Stew Bolen	1926 - 1932	RP	-0.5		0.0	-0.0	-0.5	0.0
38	Jess Doyle	1925 - 1931	RP	-0.5	WW1	0.4	0.0	-1.0	0.0
39	Ken Ash	1925 - 1930	RP	-0.5		-0.4	-0.0	-0.2	-0.0
40	Lefty Taber	1926 - 1927	RP	-0.7		-0.0	0.0	-0.6	0.0
41	Skinny O'Neal	1925 - 1927	RP	-0.7		-0.0	0.0	-0.7	0.0
42	Chick Davies	1914 - 1926	RP	-2.1		-0.2	-0.2	-1.9	-0.2
43	Luther Roy	1924 - 1929	RP	-2.2		0.2	0.0	-2.4	0.0
44	George Boehler	1912 - 1926	RP	-3.2		0.4	-0.0	-3.6	-0.0

	Leon Williams	1926 - 1926	RP	-0.1		0.0	0.0	-0.1	0.0

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Uniform images used with permission from Marc Okkonen, author of Baseball Uniforms of the 20th Century.
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Win Shares are calculated using the formula in the book Win Shares by Bill James