Putting aside the .341 career batting average and the 521 career homeruns (when that still meant something), Ted Williams is inducted into the Hall for the kind of man he was on and off the field. He took two prolonged breaks from his major league career to serve as a Marine Corps pilot in WWII and the Korean war, where he flew actual combat missions instead of tooling around in a tank in Germany like Elvis. He also had the guts to call out major league baseball for its years of segregation during his Hall of Fame (baseball) induction speech.
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Putting Country over self is one of the oldest Manly traits. He demonstrated this trait well.
concur.
Now... should we steal his head?
An unfortunate final chapter for a great man and yet another of the abundant examples of the "apple" falling far from the "tree."
Agree, he was a better fly fisherman then baseball player apparently. Although his parenting skills can be questioned.
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