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Ted Williams was what John Wayne would have liked us to think he was. Williams was so big, and handsome, and laconic, and direct, and unafraid in that uniquely American cowboy way. To me he epitomized the sense of the athlete as gunslinger.
-Robert Lipsyte
There's really no way to properly memorialize The Kid - he's like a comic book, something that wasn't real, like Ruth, DiMaggio, and Cobb . . .
-highest lifetime OBP (.483)
-3 Triple crowns
-2 MVPs
-second-highest lifetime SLG (.634)
-hit .344, 521 HRs
At the All-Century Team presentation at the '99 All-Star Game, Teddy Ballgame told Mark McGwire that he used to smell burning wood when he hit a ball square, and knew immediately if it was gone. He asked McGwire if he ever smelled the same - McGwire's response?
"Yes, sir."
Goes to show you the regard in which the man was held - he was the most important sports figure in the history of New England sports.
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