Ted Williams

SUMMARY: This offering is a Ted Williams signed Photograph. Price:$475.00

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Theodore Samuel Williams (1918 – 2002). He is best known as Ted Williams, nicknamed The Kid, the Splendid Splinter, Teddy Ballgame and The Thumper, was an American left fielder in Major League Baseball. He played 19 seasons, twice interrupted by military service as a Marine Corps pilot, with the Boston Red Sox.

Williams was a two-time American League Most Valuable Player (MVP) winner, led the league in batting six times, and won the Triple Crown twice. He had a career batting average of .344, with 521 home runs, and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1966. He is the last player in Major League Baseball to bat over .400 in a single season (.406 in 1941). Williams holds the highest career batting average of anyone with 500 or more home runs. His career year was 1941, when he hit .406 with 37 HR, 120 RBI, and 135 runs scored. His .551 on base percentage set a record that stood for 61 years. An avid sport fisherman, he hosted a television show about fishing and was inducted into the Fishing Hall of Fame.

This offering is an 8 in x 10 in B&W photograph of Williams in a Red Sox uniform and signed and inscribed Beat Wishes to Elwin Fraley, Jr.Ted Williams, n.d. but circa 1950

Price: $475.00

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