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Best hitter in the game ever! Last one to hit .400!! 
In an interview after he was retired they asked him how he would do against today’s pitchers. He said , “ I’d probably hit close to .300”. The interviewer said “Just .300?”

Ted said, Well I am 70 yrs old”.:lol:

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He was very generous to players who fell on tough times, often just making deposits to their accounts.

 

might have hit more dingers than the Babe if he wasn’t in the marines.

 

in WW II the Marines kept him as an instructor. In Korea he was John Glenn’s wingman.

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He lost 3 years of playing time in WW2 when he was averaging 180 hits, 35 hime runs and 120 rbis. 2 more years during the Korean war but he had lower stats at that time. Then at ages 39 and 40 won American League batting average titles.  The year before he went to serve in WW2 he won his first Triple Crown. Many other baseball players also served but I think he lost more playing time then about anyone who continued to play upon returning. Crazy what his stats would be.

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My late father in law was an army engineer in Korea, He was running a cement mixer at a new airstrip when the emergency siren went off and a jet fighter came sliding down the runway on its belly, The jet stopped  a couple hundred feet from him and he ran to help the pilot get out, When the pilot took his helmet off all my Father in law could say was "I know You" turns out it was Ted Williams.

 

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In the NH Veterans Cemetery, at H17LB1, if I remember right, lies Theodore Williams, born 1941. His marker says “Ted Williams has left the building “.  My guess is that he was a RedSox fan. His dad certainly was.

 

(My wife is on the opposite site of the columbarium at H17RC3.)

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13 hours ago, Pat Riot, SASS #13748 said:

Even in death he’s ahead in the science of cryogenics. 
 

 

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By the way - shouldn't that be "he's a head in the science of cryogenics"? :P

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in my youth he was "sears label" as in that rifle above , i knew of his career but thought he must be getting rich on the endorsements , 

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7 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

Wow, I knew he was frozen but never knew or checked out the details. Amazing! Thanks for posting that Joe!;)

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