If Bill’s
career wins were graphed it would show a bell curve...with the pinnacle topping
out with 20 wins in 1969...a workhorse that year logging in 300 innings, a good
portion of it in the Wrigley summer sun....Hands never reached those heights
again....followed up 18, 12, and 11 win seasons as his ERA inflated.....a swap to the Twins failed to
resurrect his career, won just 6 games 1973....last game in baseball was a particularly
nasty shelling by Brewers while in a Texas uniform....Resulting pitching line:
111 wins, 110 loses....passed away recently 2017....started out with Giants
organization, won 17 games in AAA Phoenix 1965....another case of a prospect
traded rather than kept much to the benefit of the mid-1960's Cubs.
