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I don’t care if you are a Yankee fan, a Red Sox fan. I have had guys like Ted Williams say, 'Hey Mike, make sure you tell Stan I said hello.' He’s an icon; he’s the greatest ever.
The name Ted Williams evokes more than a famous baseball player. It identifies arguably the finest and most effective wildlife investigative reporter and journalist America has ever known
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Baseball 101: The best 101 numbers in baseball history
4, 1939. And the other 100 . . . .400 : The Holy grail for a season batting average, which no one has accomplished since Ted Williams' .406 in 1941. 511 : Career wins by Cy Young (if anybody matches it, they'll name an award after him, too). 56 : Games in Read more »
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Ted Williams hit his 500th career home run 53 years ago today
JUNE 17: Red Sox left fielder Ted Williams hit his 500th career home run against the Cleveland Indians on June 17, 1960. Williams became the fourth member of the 500 Home Run Club, joining Jimmie Foxx, Mel Ott and Babe Ruth. from USA Today Read more »
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Red Sox third base coach Butterfield living the dream
BOSTON — Growing up in Westboro, Mass., Jack Butterfield — the father of Red Sox third base coach Brian Butterfield — learned that sometimes school can play second fiddle to baseball. “His grandpa tapped him on the shoulder with his cane in the morning o from The Eagle-Tribune | North Andover, MA Read more »
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Sports site No. 34: University Heights
Address: 4044 Idaho St., San Diego, CA 92104 Before Ted Williams became “the Kid” with the .406 batting average, the 19-time American League All-Star, the U.S. fighter-bomb pilot who served in World War II and the Korean War, who inspired a plaque in Coo from San Diego Union-Tribune Read more »
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Eve of Destruction: 1940
By David M. Shribman It was theYear Before. The year before Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio would light up the baseball world with the numbers .406 and 56. The year before the Jeep was invented and the Manhattan Project was started, the year before Mount R from Wall Street Journal Read more »
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The all-decade team: the ‘50s
by Richard Barbieri June 13, 2013 “The Golden Age of Baseball” is, in addition to being an incredibly loaded term, also a hotly debated one. If there is one decade to which the term applies, for better or worse, that would be the 1950s. By the end of the from The Hardball Times Read more »
