No ground-breaking thought here... but could Ted Williams be the most underrated or under-appreciated player of all-time?
How many times has it been brought up that if not for his loss of time in baseball to serve our Country, he would have left the game with more home runs than Ruth, and better numbers than almost any other player that collectors hold in higher esteem? Ruth, Cobb, Hornsby, Gehrig...
And who talks about these guy's defense either?
Williams changed the game... in a different way than Ruth, but he absolutely did. He made a science out of hitting. He was the prototype of all the analysis of hitting you see today... the way batters and pitchers look at each other for every game. And all that Amazon AWS nonsense you see on every pitch today on TV... was going on in Ted Williams head 80 years ago!
Maybe that's why his son froze it???
Bad joke... sorry.
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Originally Posted by blametony
I am still mystified by the following...
1941 - Ted Williams hits .406 and DOES NOT win the MVP Award.
1942 - Ted Williams win the Triple Crown and DOES NOT win the MVP Award.
1947 - Ted Williams win the Triple Crown and DOES NOT win the MVP Award.
It's simply mind-boggling. In '41 Williams .406 average was the highest since Rogers Hornsby hit .424 in 1924.
When he won the Triple Crown in '47, he became the only the second player to accomplish that feat. Rogers Hornsby being the other.
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