Baseball Birthdays: May seventh

Dick Williams guided Oakland A’s to two World Series rings.
He’d almost taken Sox there, but Bob Gibson screwed up things.

Claude Raymond was called "Frenchy," ’cause he was a Quebec guy.
For two straight years, his Topps card showed him with an unzipped fly.

Al Williams was a Nicaraguan righty with the Twins.
‘Twas with the Sandinistas that he scored his biggest wins.

Brook Fordyce was a catcher, brought up in the nutmeg state.
His best year was two-thousand, hit three-hundred at the plate.

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