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Ted Williams the greatest hitter in baseball ever, a Red Sox and a patroit, he will be missed.
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"A wise man once said that, or was it a wise guy?" Posts: 2425 | From: Salem, MA | Registered: Apr 1999
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In the last house we lived in we found an old Ted Williams baseball card in the heat vent. It was a 1910 house. My ex still has the old baseball card. Pretty cool huh? We also found an old Sugar Daddy card from way back and a woman's shoe.
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As a kid growing up in Boston's Back Bay, I went to games at Fenway sometimes a couple times a week to see Ted Williams and Jimmy Piersall and Sammy White play. The park was in my neighborhood and I knew so many ways to get in free even though I had a season pass for a box seat on the first base line.
Ted was a great hitter and a fairly good spitter too. Seems he had a reputation of hucking one at contrary fans, and was fined for it one several occassions.
May he pass to everlasting joy!
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All day I've been hearing eulogies about Teddy Ballgame - a beer to anyone who knows how he got that nickname - and as of yet, nobody has mentioned how he used to go to Fenway on off-days and shoot pigeons off the roof with a .22 rifle.
Can you imagine, even for a moment, in this day and age, the absolute sh*tstorm that would come up if a player went into a stadium when it's empty and started shooting pigeons off the roof? The swat teams would show up, then the press, then the animal-rights and gun-control howlers. Major League Baseball would have a total cow, the team owner and commissioner would hold solemn press conferences and issue remorseful statements, talking-head psychologists would question the player's sanity and bemoan the moral decay of society, and the whole gibbering monkey-circus would be front and center for weeks.
Rest In Peace, Ted. Thanks for being the brilliant, talented, cantankerous, dedicated, unapologetic, pigeon-shooting, fighter-piloting, politically-incorrect greatest hitter of all time.
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Old time baseball players were more than just 1 dimension prima donas. They played the game. Hammering Hank was a homerun hitter but not a strikout king like the feast or famine hitters of today. Roberto Clemente could play anywhere on the field and still hit .375. The ball was dead and the parks bigger and the pitcher was looking down from a higher mound. R.I.P. Ted!
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