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  • TED WILLIAMS DIES

    07/05/2002 1:45:43 PM PDT · by BluesDuke · 18 replies · 480+ views
    Yahoo! Sports ^ | 5 July 2002 | Wire services
    CRYSTAL, RIVER FLORIDA (TICKER) -- Hall of Famer Ted Williams, regarded as perhaps the greatest hitter in the history of major league baseball, died on Friday. He was 83. Williams, who suffered a series of strokes and congestive heart failure in recent years, was taken to Citrus County Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead of cardiac arrest at 8:49 a.m. EDT. Williams, who spent his entire 19-year career with the Boston Red Sox and was a first-ballot Hall of Famer in 1966, was the last man to hit .400 -- one of the few hallowed marks to go unchallenged...