Theodore Williams popularly known as Ted Williams was born in the year 1918 in San Diego, California, USA. He was an American left fielder in MLB. He made his Major League Baseball debut in the year 1939 for the Red Sox as a left fielder and played his last match on September 28, 1960 for the Boston Red Sox. He was associated with Boston Red Sox for 21 seasons and was interrupted two times by armed forces as he was a Marine Corps pilot.
He was famously known as The Splendid Splinter, The Thumper, Teddy Ballgame and The Kid. He is broadly considered as one of the greatest hitters ever in the history of baseball.
Ted Williams successfully won the award for American League’s MVP two times and won the award for Triple Crown three times. He led the league in batting six times and had a batting average of .344. He scored 521 home runs and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in the year 1966. Ted Williams was the only player in MLB to bat with an average of more than .400 in a season (.406 in the year 1941). Ted Williams carries the record of maximum batting average than anybody with five hundred or more home runs.
He performed brilliantly in the year 1941, where he hit 37 home runs with the batting average of .406, 120 runs batted in, and 135 runs scored. His on base percentage was .551, which set a record that stood for 61 years.
Apart from baseball he was also a passionate sport fisherman and hosted a TV show about fishing, and was placed into the IGFA Fishing Hall of Fame.
Batted- Left
Threw- Right
Teams-
Boston Red Sox- As a player (1939-1942, 1946-1960)
Washington Senators/ Texas Rangers- As a manager (1969-1972)
Career Highlights and Awards-
• Selected 19 times in All-Star team
• Selected in Major League Baseball All-century Team.
Death- July 5, 2002 (at the age of 83)