Wallace Ignatius "Bucky" Williams
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Wallace “Bucky” Williams, (December 15, 1906 at Baltimore, Maryland) 100 year old former Negro League Baseball player, and second oldest living former Negro League Player behind Emilio Navarro age 101. Wallace was a team member for the Pittsburgh Crawfords(1927-1932) and Homestead Grays in 1936. He was known to play earlier with the Pittsburgh Monarchs.
He was born at Baltimore, Maryland, a son to Joseph and Mathilda (---) Williams. At the age of six months he moved to Pittsburgh. "Bucky" is a member of St. Charles Lwanga Parish in Pittsburgh’s East End. He was married in 1936 to his late wife Marjorie who died in 1976.
Wallace worked after his Negro League playing days with the Edgar Thompson Works of U.S. Steel in Braddock, where he played ball
Williams became an honorary member of the Negro League Hall of Fame several years ago. In 1995, he traveled to Kansas City for a gathering of Negro Leagues players.
To celebrate his 100th birthday a party was held December 16, 2006 at the Churchill Country Club. Local community leaders, friends and family joined the ball player on this happy occasion.
