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Williams in 2008, photo by Prphotos
Birth Name: Bernabé Williams Figueroa, Jr.
Place of Birth: San Juan, Puerto Rico
Date of Birth: September 13, 1968
Ethnicity: Afro-Puerto Rican
Bernie Williams is a Puerto Rican professional baseball player, and musician. A center fielder, he played his entire sixteen-year professional career for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB).
Bernie is the son of Rufina, a principal and college professor, and Bernabé Williams Figueroa, a merchant marine and dispatcher. He was raised in The Bronx and San Juan, Puerto Rico. He has three children with his wife Waleska.
Bernie’s maternal grandfather was Rufino Figueroa Colón (the son of Abraham Daniel Figueroa and Guadalupe Colón).
Bernie’s maternal grandmother was Cristina Concepción Ortíz (the daughter of Juan José Concepción Ortíz and Mercedes Ortíz).
Source: http://www.bernie51.com