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Ted Williams

Started by LennG, May 13, 2016, 05:25:55 PM

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LennG

Just watched a great hour long biop of Ted Williams and thoroughly enjoyed it. I never got to see him play (or, at least, I don't remember him playing), but as a child, even then, knew him as the Greatest hitter in Baseball.

The Biop was very interested. I knew about his performances on the field, and knew about his time in the service in WWII, but I didn't know he saw combat and was shot down during the Korean War. I also didn't know he had a tremendous ego and many thought of him as an ass, never tipping his cap to his loyal fans, even when he hit a HR on his last ever at bat, he refused to acknowledge the fans.

Still a fascinating story about the greatest hitter ever to play major league baseball.
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bamagiantfan

His hand-eye coordination was second to none. After his baseball career ended, he remained regarded as one of the best fly fishermen in the world, and eventually became one of the more accomplished ones as well. He would conduct fly casting and fly tying demonstrations that even experts would claim were exceptional. There is a Game Fish Hall of Fame, and he was inducted into it about 15 or 20 years ago.
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I read once that he actually was able to see the spin on the laces of the ball so he knew when a breaking pitch was coming.
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