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Don"You're basing your idea that Stan was a better team mate than Ted on what?"
Williams had a close relationship with his teammates (Dom DiMaggio for example) and opposing players (Joe DiMaggio for example). He was also a class act in many ways. But he could also be selfish and very stubborn. His refusal to go the other way was both selfish and stubborn. There have been references to Williams placing personal statistics above team success. I don't think anybody would dare say the same about Musial. Musial went out of his way to help out younger players, and many of those players simply adored him.
My statement wasn't that Williams was a poor teammate, it was that Musial was a BETTER teammate.