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Ted Williams Biography

Theodore Samuel Williams (August 30, 1918 – July 5, 2002) was an American professional baseball player and manager. He played his entire 19-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career as a left fielder for the Boston Red Sox from 1939 to 1960, only interrupted by service time during World War II and the Korean War. Nicknamed "The Kid", "The Splendid Splinter", "Teddy Ballgame", "The Thumper", and "The Greatest Hitter Who Ever Lived", Williams is regarded as one of the greatest players in baseball history, despite being a below average defensive left fielder. Williams was a nineteen-time All-Star, a two-time recipient of the American League (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 .482 on-base percentage, the highest of all time. His career batting average is the highest of any MLB player whose career was played primarily in the live-ball era, and ranks tied for 7th all-time (with Billy Hamilton).

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Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.

Baseball, Boys, Excel, Men, Nature

Baseball is 50% from the neck up

Baseball, Neck, Necks

There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived

Baseball, Greatest, Hitter, Lived

I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.

Baseball, Found, Hit, Neckties, Needs, Wear

If you get fooled by a pitch with less than two strikes, take it.

Baseball, Motivational, Pitch, Strikes, Take, Two

You've got to be ready for the fastball.

Fastball, Fastballs, Ready, Sports

If there was ever a man born to be a hitter it was me.

Born, Hitter, Man, Men, Sports

A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived. '

Baseball, Goals, Inspirational, Men, Say, Ted

The key to hitting is just plain working at it. Work, that's the real secret.

Real, Work, Keys, Hitting, Secret

You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues.

Bigs, Fastball, Hit, League, Play

If I could run like Mantle I'd hit. 400 every year!

400, Baseball, Run, Running, Year, Years

The hardest thing to do in baseball is to hit a round baseball with a round bat, squarely.

Baseball, Bats, Hardest, Round, Thing

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

Athlete, Baseball, Endeavor, Sports, Three, Times

The Cleveland Cavaliers just offered me a full-time job and a house! A house! A house!

Cavaliers, Cleveland, House, Jobs, Offered

Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.

Everybody, Gets, Inspirational, Keep, Life, Motivational

I hope somebody hits. 400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit. 400.

Guy, People, Somebody, Sports

No one can ever see the ball hit the bat because it's physically impossible to focus your eyes that way. However, when I hit the ball especially hard, I could smell the leather start to burn as it struck the wooden bat.

Ball, Eye, Focus, Impossible, See, Smell

I've found in life the more you practice, the better you get. If you want something enough and work hard to get it, your chances of success are greater.

Baseball, Found, Greater, Hard Work, Practice

Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders

Baseball, Fifty, Hitting, Percent

It was always fun for me, I loved baseball so darn much. By the hours I practiced, you'd have to say I was working a lot of hours, but it was pretty near tireless fun for me. I'd rather swing a bat than do anything else in the world.

Baseball, Bat, Leadership, Practiced, Sports

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