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Ted Williams — LF

Fast Facts about Ted Williams

Ted Williams

Years with Boston: 19

Elected to Red Sox Hall of Fame: 1995

Elected to Baseball Hall of Fame: 1966

 

 

Awards and Recognitions with Boston

Batting Champion, 1941

Batting Champion, 1942

Batting Champion, 1947

Batting Champion, 1948

Batting Champion, 1957

Batting Champion, 1958

Batting Triple Crown, 1942

Batting Triple Crown, 1947

Home Run Champion, 1941

Home Run Champion, 1942

Home Run Champion, 1947

Home Run Champion, 1949

Most Valuable Player, 1946

Most Valuable Player, 1949

RBI Champion, 1939

RBI Champion, 1942

RBI Champion, 1947

RBI Champion, 1949

 

All-Star Selections with Boston (16)

1940, 1941, 1942, 1946, 1947, 1948,

1949, 1950, 1951, 1954, 1955, 1956,

1957, 1958, 1959, 1960

 

Batting Statistics for Ted Williams with Boston

SEASON AB R H HR RBI BB SB AVG
1939 565 131 185 31 145 107 2 .327
1940 561 134 193 23 113 96 4 .344
1941 456 135 185 37 120 145 2 .406
1942 522 141 186 36 137 145 3 .356
1946 514 142 176 38 123 156 0 .342
1947 528 125 181 32 114 162 0 .343
1948 509 124 188 25 127 126 4 .369
1949 566 150 194 43 159 162 1 .343
1950 334 82 106 28 97 82 3 .317
1951 531 109 169 30 126 144 1 .318
1952 10 2 4 1 3 2 0 .400
1953 91 17 37 13 34 19 0 .407
1954 386 93 133 29 89 136 0 .345
1955 320 77 114 28 83 91 2 .356
1956 400 71 138 24 82 102 0 .345
1957 420 96 163 38 87 119 0 .388
1958 411 81 135 26 85 98 1 .328
1959 272 32 69 10 43 52 0 .254
1960 310 56 98 29 72 75 1 .316
TOTAL 7706 1798 2654 521 1839 2019 24 .344
 

Biography for Ted Williams

Theodore Samuel Williams may be one of the most recognized names in sports history; despite the fact that he took his team to the World Series only once, and lost, Williams rewrote the record books with his patented swing. Always the perfectionist, he sometimes came across as rude and arrogant, but his focus was never a question: his goal was to make contact with the ball each and every time he came to home plate with a bat in his hand. "The Kid" began his major-league career at the age of 20 with the Red Sox in 1939 and was an immediate impact on the team, batting an average of .327, clobbering 31 home runs, and driving in 145 runs. He is perhaps more remembered for what he did two years later. On the last day of that season, he was statistically hitting .400 (.3995) and then-manager Joe Cronin offered to rest Williams to preserve the mark; instead, the "Splendor Splinter" played in both ends of a double-header and went 6-for-8 at the plate to raise his final average to .406, the last player to ever bat better than .400. That might have been enough to earn MVP honors, but that went instead to friendly rival Joe DiMaggio, who had hit safely in 56 straight games that season for the New York Yankees. Williams actually missed the 1943 through 1945 when he went off to fight for his country in World War II and also missed part of the 1952 and 1953 seasons to serve in Korea. Even with time away from baseball, he never lost his touch. In 1946, the year he returned from WWII, he earned AL MVP honors; the following season, he won his second Triple Crown with a .343 average, 32 home runs, and 114 RBI. Williams also won two batting titles late in his career; in 1958, at the age of 39, he batted an incredible .388. To add an exclamation point to his career, in his last at-bat in Fenway Park, he sent a pitch into the right field bleachers for home run number 521 of his career, a Red Sox record. Williams retired in 1960 after 19 seasons with the Red Sox and easily won election to baseball's Hall Of Fame in 1966. He is also only one of five former Red Sox players to have his number (9) retired by the organization.

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