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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 to this day there is a red seat and a website in honor of the feat.<ref>http://www.theredseat.com/what_and_where.php</ref>
 
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 to this day there is a red seat and a website in honor of the feat.<ref>http://www.theredseat.com/what_and_where.php</ref>
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=== Last at-bat before leaving for the Korean War ===
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"The Red Sox held a Ted Williams Day on his last game before he was to report for duty, and he hit a home run in what could have been the last at-bat of his career."<ref>https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/10/ted-williams-baseball-great-risked-life-career-military-service/</ref>
    
=== Return from the Korean War ===
 
=== Return from the Korean War ===
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