[lavrenti]

When Williams returned from the Korean War, a conflict where he served as John Glenn's wingman, and was nearly killed in air combat (nearly burned to death in his plane because he decided to chance a crash landing instead of shattering his knees in an iffy ejection, a Ted Williams Day was held at Fenway Park.

A well-known Globe scribe asked "Why are we having a day for thisguy?"

I hope the Red Sox never wins the title.

[NYCVirago]

A well-known Globe scribe asked "Why are we having a day for thisguy?"

Yeah, and wasn't it a Boston sportswriter who completely left Williams off his ballot and cost him the 1947 MVP?

[Chu Gary]

"When Williams returned from the Korean War, a conflict where he served as John Glenn's wingman, and was nearly killed in air combat (nearly burned to death in his plane because he decided to chance a crash landing instead of shattering his knees in an iffy ejection, a Ted Williams Day was held at Fenway Park."

In the news blurb I saw, he said that he was in a distressed aircraft and thought he would go down'in fact, he'd been advised to abandon the plane. But, after considering bailing out, he decided that he was too large to extract himself easily and quickly from the cockpit and decided that trying to land the a/c was a better bet.