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In the 150+ years that baseball cards have been around, I'm not quite ready to declare any set perfect. However, there are definitely some that come awfully clo ...
Williams' home run in his final at-bat is an indelible part of baseball lore, and 60 years later, it still links the men who were there.
Ted Williams was a stubborn, independent personality who wasn’t thrilled about interrupting his career for either war.
Ted Williams ran headlong into conformist baseball culture and became an early casualty in the Players With Personality vs. Fun Police battle that still rages today.
Ted Williams flashes the pilot's traditional thumb-up sign of OK to his mechanic while taking his attack aviation refresher training in a Corsair Fighter plane at Cherry Point, N.C., on Sept. 4 ...
NASHUA – Local businessman George Katis knew exactly what he would be doing today. “I’ll be celebrating,” he said. “It’s a very big event around the country.” Why? Well, today marks the 100th birthday ...
The Kid would be 100 Thursday. Ted Williams was born on Aug. 30, 1918. How could The Kid ever turn 100? We lost Ted Williams in July of 2002, but imagine if he had lived. We’d have headlines ...
Ted Williams is the last major league baseball player to hit over .400. The Boston Red Sox slugger captivated millions with his dazzling swing and towering homers throughout the 1940s and 1950s in … ...
Ted Williams: Secrets of baseball's greatest hitter -- and an unsung hero on race We all know Ted Williams is the last player to hit .400. A new biography shows how progressive he was on race ...
There are many ways to write about Ted Williams. And longtime Boston Globe editor Ben Bradlee, Jr., touches them all with his exhaustive, 850-page tome of a biography, The Kid: The Immortal Life ...
In less than two days, the homeless man, Ted Williams, was lifted from panhandling obscurity to YouTube sensation thanks to a 97-second clip that showcased his astonishingly resonant voice.