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John Kalafarski I'm glad someone else besides myself saw Ted Williams play. I'm getting to think that he'll be the last .400 hitter the game will see. And with power. When the center field camera shot came to TV in about 1954-55, one could really see the poetry of his swing. I remember how mad I was when Ted hit below .300, the only year in 19 that it happened. That was in 1959 when he had a pinched nerve in his neck and couldn't turn his head much at all. In 1957 he hit .388 and with a little speed he would have hit .400 again, but by then Father Time had slowed him down. In the fifties we kid Red Sox fans would check the league's top ten batters and ignore the team standings.