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→External links: added Tribute by John Updike to Williams in ''The New Yorker''
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despite how the right-field fence in Williams' Fenway Park was much further from home plate than the right-field fence in Yankee Stadium.
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December 8, 2020
→Return from the Korean War: Then he observed home plate and the distant right-field foul line were slightly misaligned, and he was proven to be right.
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→Famous At-Bats: Last at-bat before leaving for the Korean War
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“He was as good a pilot as he was a baseball player,” and after his fighter plane caught fire during the Korean War due to enemy attack Williams heroically landed it amidst flames rather than eject and abandon it.
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October 16, 2020
→Longest Home Run Ever at Fenway Park
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→Famous At-Bats: Many sluggers have played in the Boston Red Sox's Fenway Park, but Ted Williams' mammoth home run in 1946 remains the longest ever there: 502 feet from home plate. The ball landed on a fan's head, and there is a red seat and a websit
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October 2, 2020
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→Homer off the blooper pitch
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→Famous At-Bats: .406 season in '41
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→Homer off the blooper pitch: formatting
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→Famous At-Bats: blooper pitch homer
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→Last At-Bat: Updike's famous article
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famous at-bats
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September 23, 2020
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November 11, 2015
remove middle initial from MacArthur's name
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Williams considered General Douglas A. MacArthur to be one of his heroes.
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The son of an evangelical mother of Mexican descent ...
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November 9, 2015
November 8, 2015
→Eyesight
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He said he could not see the seams on a pitched ball, "but in the last 20 feet I could see which way it was spinning."
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Williams batted left-handed but was actually right-handed in writing and throwing. Under modern scoring, he batted .411 in 1941 due to the lack of penalty today for sacrifice flies.
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November 7, 2015
November 28, 2011
He also volunteered and served with distinction as a fighter pilot in the Korean War, which interrupted his career and prevented him from setting even more baseball records.
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Williams was perhaps baseball's finest hitters, setting numerous batting records without the use of steroids.
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April 17, 2010
June 9, 2008
Undo revision 469843 by Special:Contributions/AshDirewood (User talk:AshDirewood)
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