Mason Williams Leading Stacked Charleston Squad

You almost have to be my age – nearly 48 years since my Bar Mitzvah – to remember a Yankees outfielder at the end of career named Walt “No Neck” Williams. Williams, who played 10 years in the majors – mostly with the Chicago White Sox – and later coached in the majors and managed in the minors, including the Charleston RiverDogs in 1994, was known as “No Neck’’ for his 5-foot-6, muscular build. Those 1994 RiverDogs were a Texas affiliate and finished 50-89, but, through Williams, have a connection to the Yankees’ talent-laden 2012 Charleston club, which has started 13-3 in the South Atlantic League. Yankees blue-chip outfield prospect Mason Williams, who is hitting .318 (21-for-66) with eight stolen bases, is distantly related to “No Neck,’’ who was his grandfather’s brother.  He looks nothing like “No Neck,’’ and 6-0, 155, but can he ever play. Williams, named as the New York-Penn League’s top prospect, is about to pass the oft-injured Slade Heathcott in the pecking order