Jul 3, 2024 · Williams is the last player to hit .400 in a season. Brees went from the Chargers to the Saints via free agency. He became part of the spirit of New Orleans as it rebounded from Hurricane...

Aug 30, 2021 · By Harold Kaese, as featured in the August, 1947 issue of SPORT magazine. *** To most baseball fans, the Red Sox slugging star is a moody, arrogant character who shuns contact with his fellow men like a plague. But there's one group of followers who'll tell you he's a prince. Joe Cronin's wife, Mildred, turned on the r

Sep 12, 2023 · Ted Williams' hitting expertise could only carry the Senators so far. Getty Images. "The greatest hitter who ever lived," Williams still holds the record for highest career on-base percentage...

Williams was a nineteen-time All-Star, a two-time recipient of the AL Most Valuable Player Award, a six-time AL batting champion, and a two-time Triple Crown winner. He finished his playing career with a .344 batting average, 521 home runs, and a 1.116 on-base plus slugging percentage, the third highest of all time.

Aug 31, 2018 · Ted Williams has been known by many names. But there is none that suited him so well as "The Greatest Hitter That Ever Lived." Hitting a baseball was an obsession for Williams; he dedicated his life to that simple ta

Oct 30, 2023 · He is that rarest creature in the world of professional sports, the superstar player who is well on his way to becoming an excellent coach, a feat that eluded all-time greats from Ted Williams...

See Ted Williams through the eyes of pitchers struggling to put a fastball past his bat, the infielders and outfielders adjusting their positions in the hopes that they can fill the hole...

The distant relative of baseball legend Ted Williams first joined the Jays in 1980 as their third base coach, remaining there until 1986, when he was promoted to manager.

In the 1980s, Montreal Gazette columnist Dink Carroll recalled his keen eyesight and extraordinary reflexes. Nobody could score on him on a breakaway or a penalty. “Like Ted Williams,” Carroll said, “he went out of his way to protect his eyes, wearing sunglasses and refusing to refusing to look out a train window at the snow.”