Antone Williamson

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| name =Antone Williamson

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| position = First baseman

| birth_date ={{birth date and age|1973|7|18}}

| birth_place =Harbor City, California

| bats =Left

| throws =Right

|debutleague = MLB

| debutdate =May 31

| debutyear =1997

| debutteam =Milwaukee Brewers

|finalleague = MLB

| finaldate =July 3

| finalyear =1997

| finalteam =Milwaukee Brewers

| statyear =

|statleague = MLB

| stat1label =Batting average

| stat1value =.204

| stat2label =Home runs

| stat2value =0

| stat3label =Runs batted in

| stat3value =6

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| teams =

Milwaukee Brewers ({{mlby|1997}})

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Anthony Joseph "Antone" Williamson (born July 18, 1973) is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) first baseman who played for the Milwaukee Brewers in 1997.

Amateur career

Williamson attended Arizona State University, and in 1992 he played collegiate summer baseball with the Harwich Mariners of the Cape Cod Baseball League.{{cite web|author= |url=http://capecodbaseball.org.ismmedia.com/ISM3/std-content/repos/Top/2012website/archives/Current%20Year/All_Time_MLB_CCBL_Alumni.pdf |title=Major League Baseball Players From the Cape Cod League |publisher=capecodbaseball.org |date= |accessdate=September 25, 2019}}

Professional career

Williamson was a first-round draft pick (fourth overall) by the Milwaukee Brewers in the 1994 MLB Draft.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xJIiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Ha8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=4851,558068&dq=baseball+anthony-williamson&hl=en|title=1994 baseball free-agent draft First-round selections|date=3 June 1994|work=The Item|page=1B|accessdate=14 June 2010}} He played minor league baseball for most of his career, and had a .271 batting average, and 415 hits in his six-year minor-league career.

Williamson's only Major League action came in a 24-game stint in 1997 for the Brewers. In those 24 games, he recorded a .204 average. He played first base, and occasionally pinch-hit. He left affiliated baseball in 2000 to play for the independent Greenville Bluesmen of the Texas–Louisiana League, after which he retired.