Ted Williams (1) (1918–2002)
Auteur van The Science of Hitting
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Ted Williams was one of the true legends of twentieth-century American sports. Major League Baseball recently named its All-Star Game MVP trophy after Williams Jim Prime, a long-suffering Red Sox fan, is the author of seven books
Fotografie: Major League Baseball hall of famer Ted Williams. Baseball Digest, back cover, May 1949 issue
Werken van Ted Williams
A Baseball Life 1 exemplaar
My Turn at Bat 1 exemplaar
My Turn at Bat Hardcover – June 23, 1969 1 exemplaar
Batting Tips From Ted 1 exemplaar
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Baseball, the Perfect Game : An All-Star Anthology Celebrating the Game's Greatest Players, Teams, and Moments (2005) — Medewerker — 19 exemplaren
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- 1918-08-30
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- Batted .406 in 1941 (Lifetime .344)
Most Valuable Player (AL|1946)
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Baseball Hall of Fame (Player|1966) (toon alle 13)
Ted Williams museum 1994
Presidential Citation 1991
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Most Valuable Player (AL|1949)
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Air Medal (two gold stars) - Korte biografie
- "All I want out of life," Ted Williams once told a friend, "is that when I walk down the street folks will say, 'There goes the greatest hitter that ever lived.'" He fulfilled his ambition by becoming Boston's greatest 20th century athlete and the last major league baseball player to hit over .400 for an entire season. Who knows what else he might have achieved if he had not missed five prime years (1943-45 and 1952-53) serving as a Navy fighter pilot in World War II and the Korean War.
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As so often, one of the elements of his excellence was attention to detail. The first photo of him in the book shows him standing next to a player he is coaching. The first thing I noticed was that I could see the label on the barrel of the bat he’s holding. A no-no, I thought. I was taught to have the label facing up as I swung, for it was placed to show how the grains of the wood ran, thus minimizing the likelihood of bat breakage. That part was right, but it worked equally well if the label faced down, and that’s how Williams held it, so there would be one less distraction to his eye.
Williams is appropriately aware that he might come across sounding like yet another old fart griping about how much better the game was in his day. In fact, the book surprised me by not being overly dogmatic. He concentrates on the mental part of an at-bat. I had heard he was big on taking the first pitch, but that only applied to his first time up in a game; in that at-bat, he wanted to see as many pitches as he could from a pitcher to compare it with what he remembered (and he did remember) from previous times facing him. Does his fastball have extra zip today? Is he having trouble getting his curve over?
He is surprisingly flexible on some of the physical aspects, such as stance. Young players should experiment, find a stance they are comfortable with. He also encourages batters to recognize what type of player he or she is and work within that. He is dogmatic on one point: weight shift alone won’t generate power, it must be combined with hip rotation.
Most memorable is his analysis of the strike zone and stressing the importance of choosing your pitch. The book has a chart with 77 baseballs filling his strike zone. Written on each is his batting average on a pitch located there. I had seen the chart before and was happy to learn while reading the book that these are not meant to apply to everyone. This was his analysis of his strike zone. Each batter has to analyze his or her own.
For all the helpfulness of the advice and information this book contains, none of it takes away from one thing Williams is dogmatic about: hitting a baseball is the single most difficult skill in all of sport. That being the case, a batter needs all the help he or she can get; there’s a great deal to find here.… (meer)