![]() If President Bush hadn’t bought the Rangers I don’t know if I’d ever gotten in politics,”’ Williams said. Rick Perry, then decided to run for Congress because I didn’t think anybody was fighting for Main Street. I’d never done that, and I did, and was successful at it because he was successful, then again in ’98, and in 2000 got engaged and ended up being Secretary of State for Gov. When he decided to run for governor in ’92 he asked me to be one of his finance chairmen. “Baseball got me in politics because when President Bush bought the Rangers back in ’88 and ’89 we all were excited about that. Such is the life off a manager in the big leagues.īut because life developed as it did, he has the family he has, he has his relationship with TCU and he was able to get into politics. He also figures he would have probably been fired at least seven times. “I knew the game as good as anybody,” Williams said. He figures he might have gotten to manage a couple of minor league teams, maybe coach or manage a major league team. What if he had been able to stay in baseball? We played a little “what if” during the interview. He is the manager of the Republican Team for the usually annual Republican-Democrat baseball game, which this year has been cancelled because of Covid-19. He’s older now – he just turned 71 – but baseball still looms large in his life. His wife, Patty, is president.Īnd, by the way, he was appointed Texas Secretary of State and later was elected in 2012 to represent the 25th Congressional District of Texas, which stretches from the far southern edge of Tarrant County to Hays County, and includes much of the Texas Hill Country, Austin and Fort Hood. He’s now the chairman of Roger Williams Chrysler/Dodge/Jeep/Ram/SRT in Weatherford, continuing a family tradition started by his father, Jack Williams in 1939. Things work out, I got to get into the car business earlier, helped my dad, and coach at my alma mater which I think anytime you go back to your school is a huge deal. “I still wish I could have played longer but I had a good career and I was blessed. He could have stayed with the Braves organization, maybe managing minor league teams and so forth and actually was going to do that, until he got the chance to go back to TCU and help Frank Windegger, his college coach, by then the school’s athletic director, and serve as head coach of TCU’s baseball team in 1976.
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