Ted Williams, former Boston Red Sox slugger, is shown in cockpit of a Marine F9F-5 Panther jet fighter plane while taking a refresher course in Sept. 1952. Williams, the Boston Red Sox revered and sometimes reviled ``Splendid Splinter'' and baseball's last .400 hitter, died Friday, July 5, 2002, of cardiac arrest at Citrus County Memorial Hospital in Inverness, Fla., said hospital spokeswoman Rebecca Martin. He was 83. (AP Photo)
Capt. Ted Williams, former Boston Red Sox slugger, at the Marine Airbase in South Korea, after he crash landed his thunder jet at an advance airbase in this Feb. 15, 1953 photo, on his first combat mission over North Korea against enemy targets. Williams walked away safely from the crash.