[Radix]

"I believe if Babe Ruth took care of his health and was more disciplined he could have made 800 HRs in his career easily."

If Ted Williams didn't go off to fly planes for the Marines in wars he might have hit a thousand home runs. We'll never know.

[MikefromOhio]

If Ted Williams didn't go off to fly planes for the Marines in wars he might have hit a thousand home runs. We'll never know.

Yeah we do. 1,000 is a bit much. He would have easily eclipsed the 600 homer mark (he ended up with 521)...if you look at it, he missed 3 full seasons and most of a 4th season (1952) and part of a 5th (1953). His per year average for number of home runs hit is 27.4 something. He would have ended his career with something in the neighborhood of 650-670 homeruns. To expect anything more wouldn't be fair to him.