Bernie Williams
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"Bernabé Williams Figueroa Jr." is a retired Puerto Rican people/Puerto Rican professional baseball player and musician. He played his entire 16-year career in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the New York Yankees from 1991 through 2006.

A center fielder, Williams was a member of four World Series championship teams with the Yankees. He retired with a .297 batting average, 287 home runs, 1,257 runs batted in (RBI), 1,366 run (baseball)/runs scored, and 449 double (baseball)/doubles. He was a five-time Major League Baseball All-Star Game/MLB All-Star and won four Gold Glove Awards. He also won the Silver Slugger Award and American League Championship Series Most Valuable Player Award.

Williams is also a classically trained guitarist. Following his absence from baseball, he has released two jazz albums. He was nominated for a Latin Grammy in 2009.

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It's one of my biggest hobbies. I started when I was 8 years old. Then I went to music high school in Puerto Rico. We had a regular curriculum, but with an emphasis on music.

Joe is going to have a little more fun now that everybody is here. We're not going to miss too many games. We have to work on playing as a team. That's what I have to assume.

I'm not ready to quit my day job.

I loved it. I can't stress enough how fun it was.

Most definitely this home run that I hit was very important ? it was a milestone in my career... I felt that I was playing the World Series in the month of March.

It was just amazing - people chanting my name, I was kind of like the sentimental favorite, the older guy on the team. I'm glad I did it and hopefully I'll hang around enough to perhaps do it again.

They simply had a bad night. They're not going to allow the loss here to intimidate them.

It doesn't show that I have anything torn, by the test that the trainer did to my shoulder. He doesn't seem to think I have anything to worry about. It's just a deep bruise, I guess. We'll see what happens tomorrow. We're going to keep packing it in ice and getting therapy and try to get it going.

We had to win the first game. This was the ice breaker.