Ted Willams?

Question

Who was Ted Willams, What were his stats ect.) Person who tells most gets 10 points. PLAY BALL!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

The only thing I can say is... WTF Mate? You have a display name of #1 RedSox Fan, and you don't know who the greatest hitter to ever play the game is? His life time stats are as follows!

Birth name: Theodore Samual Williams

Played in the League from 1939 to 1942, left MLB to fight in WW II rejoined the league in 1946 and played until the start of the 1952 season when he re entered the Military and went to fight in the Korean Conflict, where he flew over 49 missions and was a highly decorated Pilot, ( one of the people he flew with was John Glenn, later became famous with NASA and something to do with the Outer Space thingy!) Then re-joined the team near the end of the 1953 season where he continued to play until his retirement in 1960, all seasons were played with the Boston Red Sox.

He played in : 2,292 Games
He totaled 7706 Lifetime At Bats, with 2654 Hits,
resulting in a .344 lifetime batting average. he was the last person to bat over .400 in a season (.406 in 1941), but since the number of people that batted over .400 since 1900 can be counted on just your hands, and no one in the modern era of baseball has come close, it's pretty good. He also only had ONE season in his career where he batted under .300, and that was in 1959 at the age of 40 he batted .254, but came back the next season, his last, and batted .316.

He has 521 career Home Runs, with 525 Double 71 Triples and 1839 career RBI's
Despite being such a phenominal player he only played in ONE World Series in 1946 against the St. Louis where the Red Sox lost in Seven games, In which Williams batted only a dismal .200 (5 Hits, out of 25 At Bats)

He is 5th in Major League history in Batting average, he is 12th in history for RBI's, he is 3rd in history with 2019 Bases on Balls, and 1st in all time base percentage. He won the AL MVP twice (1946 and 1949) The AL Triple Crown (Lead the League in Batting average, RBI's and Home Runs in the same season) twice, (1942 and 1947) He led the AL in batting 6 times, the AL in Home Runs 4 times, the AL in Total bases in a season 5 times, the AL in Bases on Balls 8 times. The AL in Slugging Percentage 9 times. He was inducted in the MLB Hall of fame in 1966 with a mind boggling 93% of the panel voting him in. He was named Baseball Player of the Decade for the 1950's. He was also elected to 18 All Star teams in his 19 seasons playing professional base ball!

I hope that is good enough for ya.

Answer 2

From one Jay to another... you got it, dude.
I agree 100% that The Splinted Splinter was Baseball's greatest hitter.
When I was a kid a bought Ted's book "The Science of Hitting" and still have it. He ruled out a part of the swing that I always disagreed with. And he proved me right.
When many ball players were saying and demonstrating on TV the "level swing", Ted came out and contradicted them by saying, "the natural swing is a slight upper cut." You don't know how good I felt as a 12-year-old knowing that I was thinking on the same plane as the greatest hitter.
Williams is another player who would have played another five years had it not been for the two wars he fought in. At a minimum of 25-homers and 100-hits each year, Ted would have 646 homers and over 3,100 hits.
And one more thing: The record books show Ted was MVP only two years. He wasn't voted MVP in 1941 (the year he hit .406) because that half-*** sportswriter Mel Webb (who had a hard-on for Ted) left Ted's name off all his ballots.
One thing about Williams, he was his own man. He didn't kiss Webb's or anyone else's ***.

Answer 3

I can't add much more than the two Jays above. However, I do have a comment about the 1941 MVP voting which I'd like to share.

It's true Williams was left off Mel Webb's ballot, but it's also true that if Webb had voted Williams first he still would've lost to DiMaggio (who won the award). Lots of folks either don't know that or forget it. Additionally (for what it's worth) DiMaggio was left off 3 ballots that year! :-)

Answer 4

I concur with Jay.
Teddy Ballgame, The Splendid Splinter, Thumper. In addition to being one of the game's greatest hitters, was also an expert fisherman and a Marine fighter pilot for two wars. The man was the real life 'John Wayne'.

Answer 5

Ted was the best "pure" hitter in the history of baseball.

I'm a Royals fan, who obsesses over George Brett. But I still give Ted his props. George ALMOST hit .400 once. George is probably the #2 best "pure" hitter in the history of the game.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Uuuh,I think he was this baseball guy that got his head frozen

Answer 8

I know his head is frozen.