Talking with the game's greats would become a pattern for Williams, who also talked with Hugh Duffy, who hit .438 in 1894, Bill Terry who hit .401 in 1930, and Ty Cobb with whom he would argue that a batter should hit up on the ball, opposed to Cobb's view that a batter should hit down on the ball. While in Minnesota, Williams quickly became the team's star.
Theodore Samuel Williams (August 30, 1918 – July 5, 2002) was an American professional baseball player and manager.
He was selected for the Major League Baseball All-Time Team in 1997 and the Major League Baseball All-Century Team in 1999. ==Early life== Williams was born in San Diego on August 30, 1918, and named Theodore Samuel Williams after former president Theodore Roosevelt as well as his father, Samuel Stuart Williams.
His career batting average of .3444 is the highest of any player who played his entire career in the live-ball era following 1920. Most modern statistical analyses place Williams, along with Ruth and Barry Bonds, among the three most potent hitters to have played the game.
His OPS of 1.287 that year, a Red Sox record, was the highest in the major leagues between 1923 and 2001.
While in the Millers training camp for the springtime, Williams met Rogers Hornsby, who had hit over .400 three times, including a .424 average in 1924.
The .406 batting average—his first of six batting championships—is still the highest single-season average in Red Sox history and the highest batting average in the major leagues since 1924, and the last time any major league player has hit over .400 for a season after averaging at least 3.1 plate appearances per game.
Williams hit 28 home runs and drove in 83 runs while being named the "Comeback Player of the Year." ====1956–1960==== On July 17, 1956, Williams became the fifth player to hit 400 home runs, following Mel Ott in 1941, Jimmie Foxx in 1938, Lou Gehrig in 1936, and Babe Ruth in 1927.
Talking with the game's greats would become a pattern for Williams, who also talked with Hugh Duffy, who hit .438 in 1894, Bill Terry who hit .401 in 1930, and Ty Cobb with whom he would argue that a batter should hit up on the ball, opposed to Cobb's view that a batter should hit down on the ball. While in Minnesota, Williams quickly became the team's star.
The .553 OBP stood as a major league record until it was broken by Barry Bonds in 2002 and his .735 slugging percentage was the highest mark in the major leagues between 1932 and 1994.
While in the Pacific Coast League in 1936, Williams met future teammates and friends Dom DiMaggio and Bobby Doerr, who were on the Pacific Coast League's San Francisco Seals.
Williams posted a .271 batting average on 107 at bats in 42 games for the Padres in 1936.
Unknown to Williams, he had caught the eye of the Boston Red Sox's general manager, Eddie Collins, while Collins was scouting Bobby Doerr and the shortstop George Myatt in August 1936.
Petersburg in 1936 has any baseball rookie received the nationwide publicity that has been accorded this spring to Theodore Francis Williams".
Williams hit 28 home runs and drove in 83 runs while being named the "Comeback Player of the Year." ====1956–1960==== On July 17, 1956, Williams became the fifth player to hit 400 home runs, following Mel Ott in 1941, Jimmie Foxx in 1938, Lou Gehrig in 1936, and Babe Ruth in 1927.
He stood out like a brown cow in a field of white cows." In the 1937 season, after graduating from Hoover High in the winter, Williams finally broke into the line-up on June 22, when he hit an inside-the-park home run to help the Padres win 3–2.
In December 1937, during the winter meetings, the deal was made between Lane and Collins, sending Williams to the Boston Red Sox and giving Lane $35,000 and two major leaguers, Dom D'Allessandro and Al Niemiec, and two other minor leaguers. In 1938, the 19-year-old Williams was 10 days late to spring training camp in Sarasota, Florida, because of a flood in California that blocked the railroads.
In December 1937, during the winter meetings, the deal was made between Lane and Collins, sending Williams to the Boston Red Sox and giving Lane $35,000 and two major leaguers, Dom D'Allessandro and Al Niemiec, and two other minor leaguers. In 1938, the 19-year-old Williams was 10 days late to spring training camp in Sarasota, Florida, because of a flood in California that blocked the railroads.
Despite playing in only 143 games that year, Williams led the league with 135 runs scored and 37 home runs, and he finished third with 335 total bases, the most home runs, runs scored, and total bases by a Red Sox player since Jimmie Foxx's in 1938.
Williams hit 28 home runs and drove in 83 runs while being named the "Comeback Player of the Year." ====1956–1960==== On July 17, 1956, Williams became the fifth player to hit 400 home runs, following Mel Ott in 1941, Jimmie Foxx in 1938, Lou Gehrig in 1936, and Babe Ruth in 1927.
He played his entire 19-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career, primarily as a left fielder for the Boston Red Sox from 1939 to 1960; his career was interrupted by military service during World War II and the Korean War.
After joining the Red Sox in 1939, he immediately emerged as one of the sport's best hitters.
He received the American Association's Triple Crown and finished second in the voting for Most Valuable Player. ===Major leagues (1939–1942, 1946–1960)=== ====1939–1940==== Williams came to spring training three days late in 1939, thanks to Williams driving from California to Florida, as well as respiratory problems, the latter of which would plague Williams for the rest of his career.
Even though there was not a Rookie of the Year award yet in 1939, Babe Ruth declared Williams to be the Rookie of the Year, which Williams later said was "good enough for me". Williams's pay doubled in 1940, going from $5,000 to $10,000.
Even though there was not a Rookie of the Year award yet in 1939, Babe Ruth declared Williams to be the Rookie of the Year, which Williams later said was "good enough for me". Williams's pay doubled in 1940, going from $5,000 to $10,000.
Williams also made his first of 16 All-Star Game appearances in 1940, going 0-for-2.
Williams said that the "only real fun" he had in 1940 was being able to pitch once on August 24, when he pitched the last two innings in a 12–1 loss to the Detroit Tigers, allowing one earned run on three hits, while striking out one batter, Rudy York. ====1941==== In the second week of spring training in 1941, Williams broke a bone in his right ankle, limiting him to pinch hitting for the first two weeks of the season.
In 1941, Williams posted a .406 batting average; he is the last MLB player to bat over .400 in a season.
Williams said that the "only real fun" he had in 1940 was being able to pitch once on August 24, when he pitched the last two innings in a 12–1 loss to the Detroit Tigers, allowing one earned run on three hits, while striking out one batter, Rudy York. ====1941==== In the second week of spring training in 1941, Williams broke a bone in his right ankle, limiting him to pinch hitting for the first two weeks of the season.
By the All-Star break, Williams was hitting .406 with 62 RBIs and 16 home runs. In the 1941 All-Star Game, Williams batted fourth behind Joe DiMaggio, who was in the midst of his record-breaking hitting streak, having hit safely in 48 consecutive games.
(Sacrifice flies were counted as at-bats in 1941; under today's rules, Williams would have hit between .411 and .419, based on contemporaneous game accounts.) Philadelphia fans ran out on the field to surround Williams after the game, forcing him to protect his hat from being stolen; he was helped into the clubhouse by his teammates.
Along with his .406 average, Williams also hit 37 [run]s and batted in 120 runs, missing the triple crown by five RBI. Williams's 1941 season is often considered to be the best offensive season of all time, though the MVP award would go to DiMaggio.
Williams hit 28 home runs and drove in 83 runs while being named the "Comeback Player of the Year." ====1956–1960==== On July 17, 1956, Williams became the fifth player to hit 400 home runs, following Mel Ott in 1941, Jimmie Foxx in 1938, Lou Gehrig in 1936, and Babe Ruth in 1927.
He followed this up by winning his first Triple Crown in 1942.
Marine Corps==== In January 1942, just over 2 years after World War II began, Williams was drafted into the military, being put into Class 1-A.
Afterwards, the public reaction was extremely negative, even though the baseball book Season of '42 states only four All-Stars and one first-line pitcher entered military service during the 1942 season.
(Many more MLB players would enter service during the 1943 season.) Quaker Oats stopped sponsoring Williams, and Williams, who previously had eaten Quaker products "all the time", never "[ate] one since" the company stopped sponsoring him. Despite the trouble with the draft board, Williams had a new salary of $30,000 in 1942.
Williams felt that he should have gotten a "little more consideration" because of winning the Triple Crown, and he thought that "the reason I didn't get more consideration was because of the trouble I had with the draft [boards]". Williams joined the Navy Reserve on May 22, 1942, went on active duty in 1943, and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps as a Naval Aviator on May 2, 1944.
Naval Reserve on May 22, 1942. Williams did not opt for an easy assignment playing baseball for the Navy, but rather joined the V-5 program to become a Naval aviator.
Williams was first sent to the Navy's Preliminary Ground School at Amherst College for six months of academic instruction in various subjects including math and navigation, where he achieved a 3.85 grade point average. Williams was talented as a pilot, and so enjoyed it that he had to be ordered by the Navy to leave training to personally accept his American League 1942 Major League Baseball Triple Crown.
Williams was required to interrupt his baseball career in 1943 to serve three years in the United States Navy and Marine Corps during World War II.
(Many more MLB players would enter service during the 1943 season.) Quaker Oats stopped sponsoring Williams, and Williams, who previously had eaten Quaker products "all the time", never "[ate] one since" the company stopped sponsoring him. Despite the trouble with the draft board, Williams had a new salary of $30,000 in 1942.
Williams felt that he should have gotten a "little more consideration" because of winning the Triple Crown, and he thought that "the reason I didn't get more consideration was because of the trouble I had with the draft [boards]". Williams joined the Navy Reserve on May 22, 1942, went on active duty in 1943, and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps as a Naval Aviator on May 2, 1944.
While on the baseball team, Williams was sent back to Fenway Park on July 12, 1943, to play on an All-Star team managed by Babe Ruth.
Williams felt that he should have gotten a "little more consideration" because of winning the Triple Crown, and he thought that "the reason I didn't get more consideration was because of the trouble I had with the draft [boards]". Williams joined the Navy Reserve on May 22, 1942, went on active duty in 1943, and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps as a Naval Aviator on May 2, 1944.
Marine Corps on May 2, 1944. Williams served as a flight instructor at NAS Pensacola teaching young pilots to fly the complicated F4U Corsair fighter plane.
Later in the year, he was among the members of the Major League Baseball All-Century Team introduced to the crowd at Turner Field in Atlanta prior to Game Two of the World Series. ==Personal life== On May 4, 1944, Williams married Doris Soule, the daughter of his hunting guide.
In the game, Williams hit a 425-foot home run to help give the American League All-Stars a 9–8 win. ====Service baseball==== On September 2, 1945, when the war ended, Lt.
Upon returning to MLB in 1946, Williams won his first AL MVP Award and played in his only World Series.
He received the American Association's Triple Crown and finished second in the voting for Most Valuable Player. ===Major leagues (1939–1942, 1946–1960)=== ====1939–1940==== Williams came to spring training three days late in 1939, thanks to Williams driving from California to Florida, as well as respiratory problems, the latter of which would plague Williams for the rest of his career.
The players said it was even better than the actual World Series being played between the Detroit Tigers and Chicago Cubs that year. ====1946–1949==== Williams was discharged by the Marine Corps on January 28, 1946, in time to begin preparations for the upcoming pro baseball season.
He joined the Red Sox again in 1946, signing a $37,500 contract.
Also during 1946, the All-Star Game was held in Fenway Park.
In the game, Williams homered in the fourth inning against Kirby Higbe, singled in a run in the fifth inning, singled in the seventh inning, and hit a three-run home run against Rip Sewell's "eephus pitch" in the eighth inning to help the American League win 12–0. For the 1946 season, Williams hit .342 with 38 home runs and 123 RBIs, helping the Red Sox win the pennant on September 13.
The 1946 World Series was the only World Series Williams ever appeared in. Williams signed a $70,000 contract in 1947.
Williams declined, and he suggested that Pinky Higgins, who had previously played on the 1946 Red Sox team as the third baseman, become the manager of the team.
He finished the war in Hawaii, and then he was released from active duty on January 12, 1946, but he did remain in the Marine Corps Reserve. ===Korean War=== On May 1, 1952, 14 months after his promotion to captain in the Marine Corps Reserve, Williams was recalled to active duty for service in the Korean War.
In 1947, he won his second Triple Crown.
The 1946 World Series was the only World Series Williams ever appeared in. Williams signed a $70,000 contract in 1947.
Williams was also almost traded for Joe DiMaggio in 1947.
Williams won the Triple Crown in 1947, but lost the MVP award to Joe DiMaggio, 202 points to 201 points.
After having hit for the league's Triple Crown in 1947, Williams narrowly lost the MVP award in a vote where one midwestern newspaper writer left Williams entirely off his ten-player ballot. During his career, some sportswriters also criticized aspects of Williams's baseball performance, including what they viewed as his lackadaisical fielding and lack of clutch hitting.
Gibson died early in 1947 and thus never played in the majors; and Paige's brief major league stint came long past his prime as a player.
He maintained a career-long feud with SPORT magazine due to a 1948 feature article in which the SPORT reporter included a quote from Williams's mother.
Williams used his celebrity to virtually launch the fund, which raised more than $750 million between 1948 and 2010.
Their daughter, Barbara Joyce ("Bobbi Jo"), was born on January 28, 1948, while Williams was fishing in Florida.
. SPORT magazine, April 1948. George Bush Presidential Library & Museum ==Further reading== ===Articles=== Williams, Ted.
In the playoff, Williams went 1-for-4, with the Red Sox losing 8–3. In 1949, Williams received a new salary of $100,000 ($ in current dollar terms).
The Yankees won the first of what would be five straight World Series titles in 1949.
For the rest of Williams's career, the Yankees won nine pennants and six World Series titles, while the Red Sox never finished better than third place. ====1950–1955==== In 1950, Williams was playing in his eighth All-Star Game.
Williams only played 89 games in 1950.
Williams also played in 148 games, 60 more than Williams had played the previous season, 30 home runs, two more than he had hit in 1950, and 126 RBIs, twenty-nine more than 1950.
In his biography, Ronald Reis relates how Williams committed two fielding miscues in a doubleheader in 1950 and was roundly booed by Boston fans.
Williams later thanked Fadden for saving his career. In 1951, Williams "struggled" to hit .318, with his elbow still hurting.
On May 15, 1951, Williams became the 11th player in major league history to hit 300 career home runs.
In the main lodge one can still see memorabilia from Williams's playing days. On the subject of pitchers, in Ted's autobiography written with John Underwood, Ted opines regarding Bob Lemon (a sinker-ball specialist) pitching for the Cleveland Indians around 1951: "I have to rate Lemon as one of the very best pitchers I ever faced.
Williams was returned to active military duty for portions of the 1952 and 1953 seasons to serve as a Marine combat aviator in the Korean War.
Marine Corps, Korea (1952–1953)=== Williams's name was called from a list of inactive reserves to serve on active duty in the Korean War on January 9, 1952.
He finished the war in Hawaii, and then he was released from active duty on January 12, 1946, but he did remain in the Marine Corps Reserve. ===Korean War=== On May 1, 1952, 14 months after his promotion to captain in the Marine Corps Reserve, Williams was recalled to active duty for service in the Korean War.
Nevertheless, Williams was resentful of being called up, which he admitted years later, particularly regarding the Navy's policy of calling up Inactive Reservists rather than members of the Active Reserve. Williams reported for duty on May 2, 1952.
Williams was returned to active military duty for portions of the 1952 and 1953 seasons to serve as a Marine combat aviator in the Korean War.
Ted choked and was only able to say,"...ok kid..." The Red Sox went on to win the game 5–3, thanks to a two-run home run by Williams in the seventh inning. In August 1953, Williams practiced with the Red Sox for ten days before playing in his first game, garnering a large ovation from the crowd and hitting a home run in the eighth inning.
After eight weeks of refresher flight training and qualification in the F9F Panther jet fighter with VMF-223 at the Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina, Williams was assigned to VMF-311, Marine Aircraft Group 33 (MAG-33), based at the K-3 airfield in Pohang, South Korea. On February 16, 1953, Williams, flying as the wingman for John Glenn (later Astronaut then U.S.
For his actions of this day, he was awarded the Air Medal. Williams flew 39 combat missions in Korea, earning the Air Medal with two Gold Stars in lieu of second and third awards, before being withdrawn from flight status in June 1953 after a hospitalization for pneumonia.
On September 6, Williams hit his 332nd career home run, passing Hank Greenberg for seventh all-time. On the first day of spring training in 1954, Williams broke his collarbone running after a line drive.
On September 26, Williams "retired" after the Red Sox's final game of the season. During the off-season of 1954, Williams was offered the chance to be manager of the Red Sox.
They divorced in 1954.
Higgins later was hired as the Red Sox manager in 1955.
Williams sat out the first month of the 1955 season due to a divorce settlement with his wife, Doris.
Williams hit 28 home runs and drove in 83 runs while being named the "Comeback Player of the Year." ====1956–1960==== On July 17, 1956, Williams became the fifth player to hit 400 home runs, following Mel Ott in 1941, Jimmie Foxx in 1938, Lou Gehrig in 1936, and Babe Ruth in 1927.
On August 7, 1956, after Williams was booed for dropping a fly ball from Mickey Mantle, Williams spat at one of the fans who was taunting him on the top of the dugout.
In 1957 and 1958 at the ages of 39 and 40, respectively, he was the AL batting champion for the fifth and sixth time. Williams retired from playing in 1960.
In 1957 and 1958 at the ages of 39 and 40, respectively, he was the AL batting champion for the fifth and sixth time. Williams retired from playing in 1960.
The incident caused an avalanche of negative media reaction, and inspired sportswriter Austen Lake's famous comment that when Williams name was announced the sound was like "autumn wind moaning through an apple orchard." Another incident occurred in 1958 in a game against the Washington Senators.
Beginning in 1961, he would spend summers at the Ted Williams Baseball Camp in Lakeville, Massachusetts, which he had established in 1958 with his friend Al Cassidy and two other business partners.
He played his entire 19-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career, primarily as a left fielder for the Boston Red Sox from 1939 to 1960; his career was interrupted by military service during World War II and the Korean War.
In 1957 and 1958 at the ages of 39 and 40, respectively, he was the AL batting champion for the fifth and sixth time. Williams retired from playing in 1960.
During this time, he also played American Legion Baseball, later being named the 1960 American Legion Baseball Graduate of the Year. Though he had offers from the St.
Despite the cheers and adulation of most of his fans, the occasional boos directed at him in Fenway Park led Williams to stop tipping his cap in acknowledgment after a home run. Williams maintained this policy up to and including his swan song in 1960.
Williams's aloof attitude led the writer John Updike to observe wryly that "Gods do not answer letters." Williams's final home run did not take place during the final game of the 1960 season, but rather in the Red Sox's last home game that year.
Another writer similarly noted that while in the 1960s he had a liberal attitude on civil rights, he was pretty far right on other cultural issues of the time, calling him “ultraconservative in the tradition of Barry Goldwater and John Wayne”. Williams campaigned for Richard Nixon in the 1960 United States Presidential Election, and after Nixon lost to John F.
October 17, 1960. ===Books=== Baldasarro, Lawrence (ed.).
Beginning in 1961, he would spend summers at the Ted Williams Baseball Camp in Lakeville, Massachusetts, which he had established in 1958 with his friend Al Cassidy and two other business partners.
Williams married the socialite model Lee Howard on September 10, 1961, and they were divorced in 1967. Williams married Dolores Wettach, a former Miss Vermont and Vogue model, in 1968.
He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1966, in his first year of eligibility.
Williams married the socialite model Lee Howard on September 10, 1961, and they were divorced in 1967. Williams married Dolores Wettach, a former Miss Vermont and Vogue model, in 1968.
Williams married the socialite model Lee Howard on September 10, 1961, and they were divorced in 1967. Williams married Dolores Wettach, a former Miss Vermont and Vogue model, in 1968.
Their son John-Henry was born on August 27, 1968, followed by daughter Claudia, on October 8, 1971.
He supported Nixon again in 1968, and as manager of the Senators, kept a picture of him on his desk, meeting with the President several times while managing the team.
Williams managed the Washington Senators/Texas Rangers franchise from 1969 to 1972.
He resumed his spring training instruction role with the club in 1978. Williams served as manager of the Washington Senators, from 1969–1971, then continued with the team when they became the Texas Rangers after the 1971 season.
Williams's best season as a manager was 1969 when he led the expansion Senators to an 86–76 record in the team's only winning season in Washington.
In 1970 he wrote a book on the subject, The Science of Hitting (revised 1986), which is still read by many baseball players.
Fireside Classics, 1970, 1989.
He resumed his spring training instruction role with the club in 1978. Williams served as manager of the Washington Senators, from 1969–1971, then continued with the team when they became the Texas Rangers after the 1971 season.
Their son John-Henry was born on August 27, 1968, followed by daughter Claudia, on October 8, 1971.
This powerful and unprecedented statement from the Hall of Fame podium was "a first crack in the door that ultimately would open and include Paige and Gibson and other Negro league stars in the shrine." Paige was the first inducted in 1971.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1971.
Williams managed the Washington Senators/Texas Rangers franchise from 1969 to 1972.
They were divorced in 1972. Williams lived with Louise Kaufman for twenty years until her death in 1993.
In 1972 he called Nixon, “the greatest president of my lifetime.” In the following years, Williams endorsed several other candidates in Republican Party presidential primaries, including George H.W.
Gibson and others followed, starting in 1972 and continued on and off into the 21st century. On November 18, 1991, President George H.
He resumed his spring training instruction role with the club in 1978. Williams served as manager of the Washington Senators, from 1969–1971, then continued with the team when they became the Texas Rangers after the 1971 season.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982.
In 1970 he wrote a book on the subject, The Science of Hitting (revised 1986), which is still read by many baseball players.
Bush in 1988 (whom he also campaigned for in New Hampshire), Bob Dole in 1996, and George W.
Fireside Classics, 1970, 1989.
In 1991 President George H.
("If I had known hitting .400 was going to be such a big deal", he quipped in 1991, "I would have done it again.") Williams's on-base percentage of .553 and slugging percentage of .735 that season are both also the highest single-season averages in Red Sox history.
The Red Sox played three more games, but they were on the road in New York City and Williams did not appear in any of them, as it became clear that Williams's final home at-bat would be the last one of his career. In 1991 on Ted Williams Day at Fenway Park, Williams pulled a Red Sox cap from out of his jacket and tipped it to the crowd.
Gibson and others followed, starting in 1972 and continued on and off into the 21st century. On November 18, 1991, President George H.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991.
Bush presented Williams with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the US. The Ted Williams Tunnel in Boston, Massachusetts, carrying of the final of Interstate 90 under Boston Harbor, opened in December 1995, and Ted Williams Parkway (California State Route 56) in San Diego County, California, opened in 1992, were named in his honor while he was still alive.
They were divorced in 1972. Williams lived with Louise Kaufman for twenty years until her death in 1993.
Harcourt Brace and Company, 1993.
The .553 OBP stood as a major league record until it was broken by Barry Bonds in 2002 and his .735 slugging percentage was the highest mark in the major leagues between 1932 and 1994.
In 2016, the major league San Diego Padres inducted Williams into their hall of fame for his contributions to baseball in San Diego. The Tampa Bay Rays home field, Tropicana Field, installed the Ted Williams Museum (formerly in Hernando, Florida, 1994–2006) behind the left field fence.
Bush presented Williams with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the US. The Ted Williams Tunnel in Boston, Massachusetts, carrying of the final of Interstate 90 under Boston Harbor, opened in December 1995, and Ted Williams Parkway (California State Route 56) in San Diego County, California, opened in 1992, were named in his honor while he was still alive.
Bush in 1988 (whom he also campaigned for in New Hampshire), Bob Dole in 1996, and George W.
Indianapolis: Masters Press, 1996.
He was selected for the Major League Baseball All-Time Team in 1997 and the Major League Baseball All-Century Team in 1999. ==Early life== Williams was born in San Diego on August 30, 1918, and named Theodore Samuel Williams after former president Theodore Roosevelt as well as his father, Samuel Stuart Williams.
He was selected for the Major League Baseball All-Time Team in 1997 and the Major League Baseball All-Century Team in 1999. ==Early life== Williams was born in San Diego on August 30, 1918, and named Theodore Samuel Williams after former president Theodore Roosevelt as well as his father, Samuel Stuart Williams.
The younger Williams provided structure to his father's business affairs, exposed forgeries that were flooding the memorabilia market, and rationed his father's public appearances and memorabilia signings to maximize their earnings. One of Ted Williams's final, and most memorable, public appearances was at the 1999 All-Star Game in Boston.
Williams was named to the International Game Fish Association Hall of Fame in 2000.
Bush in 2000. According to friends, Williams was an atheist and this influenced his decision to be cryogenically frozen.
He had a pacemaker implanted in November 2000 and he underwent open-heart surgery in January 2001.
His OPS of 1.287 that year, a Red Sox record, was the highest in the major leagues between 1923 and 2001.
He had a pacemaker implanted in November 2000 and he underwent open-heart surgery in January 2001.
Theodore Samuel Williams (August 30, 1918 – July 5, 2002) was an American professional baseball player and manager.
The .553 OBP stood as a major league record until it was broken by Barry Bonds in 2002 and his .735 slugging percentage was the highest mark in the major leagues between 1932 and 1994.
Sports Publishing, LLC, 2002.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002.
Kingston, New York: Total/Sports Illustrated, 2002.
New York: Hyperion, 2003.
The Rosen Publishing Group, 2004.
New York: Doubleday, 2004.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Rounder Books, 2005.
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2006.
Infobase Publishing, 2008.
Williams used his celebrity to virtually launch the fund, which raised more than $750 million between 1948 and 2010.
New York: Library of America, 2010.
New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2013.
In 2016, the major league San Diego Padres inducted Williams into their hall of fame for his contributions to baseball in San Diego. The Tampa Bay Rays home field, Tropicana Field, installed the Ted Williams Museum (formerly in Hernando, Florida, 1994–2006) behind the left field fence.
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