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This 15 page paper describes the life and times of one of the greatest batters, Ted Williams, who played for the Boston Red Sox during the 1940s and 1950s. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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non-baseball residents of Boston who grew up in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, Ted Williams was a name more associated with charities such as The Jimmy Fund, the childrens cancer
fund for which he made appearances, than with baseball. He was certainly known as the Red Sox batter who had reached and beat the .400 barrier to bat .406 in
1941, a feat that players today are still trying to emulate, although many claim that in todays elongated April to late October season, reaching and beating that goal is almost
next to impossible. But Williams is more than a statistic for the Red Sox. He was a personality in a time before
ball players really were personalities. While Williams loved children and was extraordinarily supportive of his community, he was stand-offish from his fans and the press. And while Williams was passionate
about baseball and fishing, two sports at which he excelled, he was the brusque curmudgeon who seemed to enjoy making fans more and more upset with him.
And while there were times when he disdained the fans and the media and let them know it, he showed devotion to his chosen career,
working his heart out on and off the field to advance the sport and life of baseball. Baseball and society - the 1940s and 1950s
Williams, who officially became a Red Sox in 1939, entered the sport of baseball while it was undergoing massive changes.
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