Longtime major league and minor league player and coach Dallas Williams joined the RailCats staff as Third Base Coach prior to the start of the 2010 season

Williams instantly becomes the most veteran coach on the RailCats staff, bringing 20 years of major and minor league coaching experience to the clubhouse along with a 12-year playing career that included parts of two seasons in the major leagues.  A longtime coach with the Chicago White Sox organization, Williams was the Colorado Rockies First Base Coach from 2000-02 and held the same position with the Boston Red Sox in 2003.  For the past five years, Williams has been a minor league field coach, spending the last four seasons with the Baltimore Orioles Triple-A clubs in Ottawa and Norfolk.

A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., Williams was the 20th overall selection in the 1976 Major League Entry Draft and had a prolific minor league career, stealing an International League-leading 51 bases for the Rochester (AAA) Red Wings in 1981 before making his major league debut with the Orioles later that season.  Williams was traded to the Cincinnati Reds in 1982 and would go on to win the American Association (AAA) batting title in 1983, earning 18 more major league games with the Reds.  Williams again won a batting title with the Indianapolis Indians (AAA) in 1987 and played one more season with the Hankyu Braves in Japan’s Pacific League before retiring.

Williams began his coaching career in 1989 as the hitting coach for the Kinston Indians (A), a Cleveland Indians affiliate.  After a year as a roving instructor for the Tribe, Williams held the same position with the White Sox from 1990-95 before serving as a hitting coach along several stops in the White Sox system from 1996-99.  Williams also spent one season as a coach for the St. Louis Cardinals Double-A affiliate in Springfield in 2004.