Profiles: Buddy Williams

This month on UMC.org Profiles, Buddy Williams, former Negro League pitcher. Williams, 89, a longtime member of Good Hope Union United Methodist Church in Silver Spring, Md., grew up working on the North Carolina farm his father inherited from his grandfather, a freed slave. He played in the racially segregated Negro Leagues from 1937 to 1941, mostly for the Newark (N.J.) Eagles, but also for the Birmingham (Ala.) Black Barons and Atlanta Black Crackers.

With an unyielding love for God, family and church, Buddy Williams’ faith story is filled with nuggets of wisdom and life lessons that are more relevant today than they were years ago.