Unlike his near contemporaries, Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio, Greenberg was not a natural athlete.
James ranks Musial 10th, behind Ty Cobb, Mickey Mantle, Ted Williams, Walter Johnson and Josh Gibson.
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The easiest and best-case scenario is when the superstar retires voluntarily and on a high think Ted Williams.
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Like Ted Williams he should zip up his duffle bag and go bone fishing off the Bahama cays.
Removed from the nation's largest media markets, he was never as famous as Joe DiMaggio or Ted Williams.
Distant from the nation's largest media markets, he never was as famous as Joe DiMaggio or Ted Williams.
He flirted with becoming the first player since Ted Williams in 1941 to bat .400, hitting .390 in 1980.
His 2, 715 career hits were more than Joe DiMaggio or Ted Williams got.
Remember what happened when famed baseball slugger Ted Williams passed away in 2002?
They can be challenged based on forgery, mental incompetence or undue influence, as we saw in the Ted Williams controversy.
He also once drank rum with Hemingway on the Pilar and fished with baseball and fishing legend, Ted Williams, for 50 years.
Ted Williams was one of the greatest hitters ever to play baseball.
The daughter fighting for cremation ran out of money and had to give up the battle, so Ted Williams was suspended in liquid nitrogen.
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Like the great left-handed hitter Ted Williams before him, Bonds simply refused to swing at a pitch he felt he could not turn into something useful.
Buffett often speaks of Ted Williams, the famed Red Sox slugger who, in 1941, accomplished the amazing feat of batting over .400, which no player has done since.
Also superior to A-Rod: Henry Aaron (who homered about two and half times more often than average), Willie McCovey and Ted Williams (both more than three times as often).
Ted Williams, considered by many the greatest hitter who ever lived and the last player to hit .400 for a season, batted just .200 in his only World Series.
For this reason, some of the game's greatest players Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, Ted Williams have always been in the shadow of a generally average player from Fargo, North Dakota, Roger Maris.
The shift was famously used against Ted Williams, who was such a dead-pull hitter that opponents would move their infielders between first and second to steal away line drives and ground balls.
But Stan the Man was famous, not for earning more than the President (like Babe Ruth), marrying Marilyn Monroe (like Joe DiMaggio), spitting on fans (like Ted Williams) or going on epic benders (like Mickey Mantle), but for hitting a baseball.
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Louis, he was undeservedly not as well regarded nationally as, say, Mickey Mantle, Ted Williams or Joe DiMaggio, because he was from the Midwest, away from New York, the media capital of the world, and therefore was not as celebrated.
Wishbook, the size of a Flintstone steak, touched off a months-long chain of daydreams and fantasies about lives lived in different futures: A Ted Williams first baseman's mitt could send your fate branching off in one direction, or so it seemed, a Coleman camp stove or Roman legionnaire's sword along other avenues entirely.
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