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''See also [[Greatest Conservative Sports Stars‎]]''.

''See also [[Greatest Conservative Sports Stars‎]]''.

[[Image:Ted Williams 1847...jpg|right|260px|Ted Williams 1947]]

[[Image:Ted Williams 1847...jpg|right|260px|Ted Williams 1947]]

'''Ted Williams''', Theodore Samuel Williams (San Diego, CA. 30 August 1918 - Crystal River,  FL. 5 July 2002) was a [[Major League Baseball]] player; he spent 19 seasons with the [[Boston Red Sox]]. Williams was perhaps baseball's finest hitter, setting numerous batting records without the use of steroids.  A 502-foot home run that Williams hit at Fenway Park in 1946 -- a year that he won the Triple Crown -- remains the record for the longest homer ever at that park.<ref>https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2015/07/13/why-aren-there-more-foot-home-runs/RYL4nuQcFltbTsf0lwABiK/story.html</ref>  Williams batted left-handed but was actually right-handed in writing and throwing.

'''Ted Williams''', Theodore Samuel Williams (San Diego, CA. 30 August 1918 - Crystal River,  FL. 5 July 2002) was a [[Major League Baseball]] player; he spent 19 seasons with the [[Boston Red Sox]]. Williams was perhaps baseball's finest hitter, setting numerous batting records without the use of steroids.  A 502-foot home run that Williams hit at Fenway Park in 1946—a year that he won the Triple Crown—remains the record for the longest homer ever at that park.<ref>https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2015/07/13/why-aren-there-more-foot-home-runs/RYL4nuQcFltbTsf0lwABiK/story.html</ref>  Williams batted left-handed but was actually right-handed in writing and throwing.

The son of an [[evangelical]] mother of Mexican descent, Williams' accomplishments include a .406 season in 1941, which under modern scoring would have been a .411 due to the lack of a penalty for hitting a sacrifice fly today.<ref name="MLB">http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/news/tributes/mlb_obit_ted_williams.jsp?content=holtzman</ref> two Triple Crowns, two MVPs, six American League batting championships, 521 home runs, a lifetime average of .344, 17 All-Star game selections, and universal reverence. [http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/hofers/detail.jsp?playerId=124341 THE HALL OF FAMERS]. Most modern statistical analyses place Williams, along with [[Babe Ruth]], [[Stan Musial]], and [[Barry Bonds]], among the greatest hitters of all-time.

The son of an [[evangelical]] mother of Mexican descent, Williams' accomplishments include a .406 season in 1941, which under modern scoring would have been a .411 due to the lack of a penalty for hitting a sacrifice fly today.<ref name="MLB">http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/news/tributes/mlb_obit_ted_williams.jsp?content=holtzman</ref> two Triple Crowns, two MVPs, six American League batting championships, 521 home runs, a lifetime average of .344, 17 All-Star game selections, and universal reverence. [http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/hofers/detail.jsp?playerId=124341 THE HALL OF FAMERS]. Most modern statistical analyses place Williams, along with [[Babe Ruth]], [[Stan Musial]], and [[Barry Bonds]], among the greatest hitters of all-time.

Williams had 20/10 vision, and his left eye was stronger than his right perhaps due to having been struck in his right eye by a walnut as a youngster.  But he rejected the rumor that he had some kind of supernatural eyesight in seeing the pitches.  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."<ref name="MLB"/>

Williams had 20/10 vision, and his left eye was stronger than his right perhaps due to having been struck in his right eye by a walnut as a youngster.  But he rejected the rumor that he had some kind of supernatural eyesight in seeing the pitches.  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."<ref name="MLB"/>

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