Posted on 05/27/2023 10:53:29 AM PDT by Signalman
John Updike wrote a great short story about Williams’s final game. He gave it a title like a newspaper headline:
HUB FANS BID KID ADIEU
“I remember baseball. It was awesome.”
Ditto. I remember Willie Mays ‘over the shoulder’ amazing catch while running toward center field stands. I’ll never forget that!
Willie, Mickey and The Duke!
Cool to know about his finger strength theory! His vision was so good he could identify the exact spot he hit the ball. Someone tested him on it with a tarred bat — he could identify each strike on the ball perfectly.
It’s like he could slow down time — not a bad skill for a fighter pilot...
Both should have played in the other’s park. A friend used to tell me, they would not have had enough ink to print the records!
If Williams were playing today, any guess as to what his paycheck would be??
40% of the gate receipts?
Neither will generations of Cleveland Indian fans...I'm not sure about Cleveland Guardian fans?
I believe he would have been the all-time RBI leader.
(I got to meet him once when I was a kid. I played and loved the game and talking with him was one of the biggest thrills of my young life.)
"Willie Mays' glove ... is where triples go ... to die."
We have a tunnel named after him here in Boston .
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They have to spinning in their graves...
I remember his career and had the pleasure of seeing him play at Fenway many times during the pre-WWII years and the years between WWII and the Korean War...
I did not see him in Korea...
When I was a kid I had a Sears baseball mitt with his name on it. Someone stole it though.
Ted had better than 20-20 vision.
Great thing to have for fighter pilots and baseball players.
Few realize that his career was interrupted by WWII and the Korean War. Williams flew bot the P-51 and F-86.
ad e not served is country is career would been much greater and more significant.
I Remember Mama.
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His long article on “The Science of Hitting” in SI, and then a book of the same name, was my Bible growing up for many years, still is. Will be giving it to my 8-year-old grandson in the near future.
https://vault.si.com/vault/1968/07/08/cover-description
He would have approached 700 HRs without his military service I believe.
They don’t make ‘em like that anymore.
The best Mexican-American baseball player of all time, Ted Williams.
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