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Is that Ted Williams from the Red Sox?Chapel Hill, North Carolina May 19, 1943
“Crack” the bat battered the ball. The Marine aviation cadet took two steps out of the batter’s box...
Is that Ted Williams from the Red Sox?
Southern Celebes Sea 0300 January 3, 1943
USS Grouper descended. Six torpedoes were swimming towards the damaged heavy cruiser limping across the Celebes Sea.
Ninety one seconds after the first torpedo left its tube, the Mk-14 should have arrived and hit its target. It missed. The torpedo had wandered to the right. Four more shots were clean misses, some due to wander and some due to spread. The only hit failed to detonate. It did wake up many exhausted men and led to a broken wrist as a man fell out of his hammock.
Kinugasa continued north even as a destroyer ran down the bubble tracks and forced Grouper under for the next four hours.
From WikiNinjaed on Ted Williams. I truly pity any pitcher trying to pitch to him in this sort of semi-pro (at best) ball game.
I've been told that the Spring '43 Chapel Hill baseball leagues had some of the best players in the world playing with multiple future Hall of Famers doing their war service. The outfielders hinted at are also MLBers.Ninjaed on Ted Williams. I truly pity any pitcher trying to pitch to him in this sort of semi-pro (at best) ball game.
From Wiki
"On August 18, 1945, when the war ended, Lt. Williams was sent to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. While in Pearl Harbor, Williams played baseball in the Army League. Also in that eight-team league were Joe DiMaggio, Joe Gordon, and Stan Musial. The Service World Series with the Army versus the Navy attracted crowds of 40,000 for each game. The players said it was even better than the actual World Series being played between the Detroit Tigers and Chicago Cubs that year."
Yes, no mention of pro pitchers in that league. Scores must had been astronomical
And was John Glenn's wingman during KoreaImpressive thing about Williams is that he served again in Korea and flew something like 35 combat missions.
And was John Glenn's wingman during Korea
Ninjaed on Ted Williams. I truly pity any pitcher trying to pitch to him in this sort of semi-pro (at best) ball game.
Impressive thing about Williams is that he served again in Korea and flew something like 35 combat missions.
And was John Glenn's wingman during Korea
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Shame he never won a World Series...
Plus in 46, Williams got hurt in an exhibition game just before the World Series and because of that injury, basically was a non factor in the series. Have Williams avoid getting hurt and the Red Sox probably win in 5 or 6 games'46 was probably the Red Sox best chance to do win out all the time they had Ted on the roster, but Enos Slaughter's mad dash from first was the end of that. The rest of the time they had Williams, barring when he was back in fighter plane, the Red Sox were fighting with one hand tied behind their back because Tom Yawkey was a racist bastard who refused to sign African-Americans.