Ted Williams

1918–2002 · Boston Red Sox outfielder, the last man to hit .400

Theodore Samuel Williams was born in San Diego in 1918 and spent his entire major-league career with the Boston Red Sox, from 1939 to 1960, hitting .344 lifetime with 521 home runs, winning two Triple Crowns and two MVP awards, and batting .406 in 1941 — still the last .400 season in the majors. He lost most of five seasons to military service as a naval aviator and Marine Corps pilot in the Second World War and Korea, and was elected to the Hall of Fame on the first ballot in 1966. He was also an unusually articulate technician of his own craft: with the sportswriter John Underwood he produced the memoir My Turn at Bat (1969) and the hitting manual The Science of Hitting, which is why lines about the arithmetic of batting get pinned to him so readily.

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