Ted Williams asked if he is the number 1 baseball hitter of all time .
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Ted Williams essentially lost 5 years of his prime production, too. 3 years in the military. Later, 2 more years in the military that limited him to 43 total games played. He might have had something like 750 more hits, 150 more home runs, 150 more doubles, 700 more RBI, 700 more walks, 600 more runs, 1,500 more total bases. His career batting average, on-base percentage, and slugging likely would have been a few points higher as well. He was the Wilt Chamberlain of baseball. Just unreal numbers.
Back in '57 when Williams was 39,much heavier than he was in '41,he batted .388 without the benefit of any "leg hits",at least none I recall.
Good story: In 1957 Mickey Mantle was having great year and he flirted with .400 for a while. Williams was asked, "Do you think he could do it?" He had his stock answer like, "Well if he shortened his swing and didn't always go for homers, yeah I think he could do it." Then when the reporters put away their notepads he was heard muttering, "If I could run like that effin jackrabbit I'd hit .500."
That was one of the few greatest hitting years ever !
Ted had a gift from God. Then he began to pick apart the small flaws and became the perfect ball player. Greatest pure hitter that ever stepped up to the plate.
Gift from God plus work ethic and an obsession with hitting.
That sums it up.
Missed many of his prime baseball years, serving in the US military 🍻
WWII and Korea...
85% people don't even know this
@@visionquest414His mother was Mexican as well. How many people know that? (He was the best hitter of all time, period.)
yup, but in like a 4 year period or so.. there was nobody better than bonds@@Anthony-hu3rj
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Ted was right up there with anyone ... baseball legend and great American. 82 years later and no one else has hit .400 , Ted hit with power too
and he and the other greats of that era did it without steroids and peds!!!
Plus Ted was a multi time war hero
Greatest generation
Bob Costas sucks.
The splendid splinter.
@@user-co7fb6qe5w There's just something about Costas that rubs me the wrong way
@@seanwhitehouse2274yes, and the funniest part? A lot of players that were taking the PEDs and they still weren't in the same league as Williams, what's that tell us,,,,
My dad met him in WWII and played in a pick up game with him waiting to be shipped overseas.
Ted was said to have 20/10 vision, which only 1 in 400,000 people have. It gave him the ability to pick up the spin of the ball right out of the pitchers hand. However, one must remember that Ty Cobb hit .400 over an 800-game span. Also, if Ted hadn't lost the time in service to his country, it would have been a solid bet that he would have surpassed the Babe's home run record.
Agree re surpassing Ruth's 714-30-35 homeruns per missed year puts him at about 700 and assume he would have gone for the record if he was that close
....And if Babe didn't spend his first 4 years as a pitcher, how many more homers would he have hit? Ted played in 2292 games, Babe played in 2503. That's a 211-game difference, which isn't even a season-and-a-half, and the home run difference is 193, so the numbers are what they are.
Great interview. Got to see Ted at Fenway when I was about 9 years old. SRO against the Yankees. Ted walked with the bases loaded to beat the Yankees in the bottom of the 9th. Biggest baseball thrill of my life and I’ve seen a lot.
Sweeet
Heard they thought about making a full length film about him awhile back and the idea was to start the movie with Ted crash landing his fighter plane and having to bail out with it on fire. Heard him described as; Ted Williams WAS who John Wayne wanted you to believe he was. Ted is even in the fishing Hall Of Fame! He's an American legend... how many people can compete with his story?
Without reading your comment I just made a very similar one. I agree, his story should be made into a movie. It would be inspiring and so much better than a lot of the crap out there masquerading as entertainment.
yes, but is he born-again? there is no story without HIStory - Jesus Christ
He didn't want to fight in Korea. He was furious when he got drafted. I knew a guy who was on the aircraft carrier that he landed on when his plane was on fire. He didn't bail out.
@@joemarshall4226 I read his book probably 20 years ago. If I remember right he wasn't happy about Korea cuz he felt he already did his part in WWII. And then he said something like he ran faster than Mickey Mantle the time he had to bail out of his flaming aircraft. Probably crashed more than once.
@@mcarlkv53 Being"born again" doesn't mean what you " Christians". think it means.
Anyone else see how great reporters were back when it was nice to watch a show?? Such a good interview...
Bob Costas is more shallow than a kiddie pool.
@@grl9917 What a ludicrous, petty, and inane comment. This demonstrates what stupidity and jealousy looks like. Ted enjoyed talking to Kostas because his perspective runs broad and deep. Based on this kind of tripe, he’d be bored talking with you in 20 seconds.
When you look at power and batting averages Ted is right there with them all. I always liked his confidence in himself.
I'm named after him my FIRST name is Theodore 'Ted' and my MIDDLE name is Williams with the 'S'. Thinking it was a mistake the hospital left the 'S' off but my father made my mother stay an extra day so they could fix it. Back in the late 1950s women stayed for about a week when having a baby. My uncle was die hard Detroit Tigers fan and back in the early '50s he met Ted in a St. Louis train station and talked baseball for close to 2 hrs telling my Uncle all about his Detroit heroes - who was a great guy, + who was an arsehole. He became a die hard Teddy Ballgame fan after that. Teddy always referred to Cleveland great Bob Feller as Mr. Feller. Around 1945 or '46 Cleveland player/manager Lou Boudreau invented the 'Williams Shift'. Ted being a stubborn son of a gun, a guy who could spray the ball, was too stubborn and would try to get his hits INTO the Shift. Was it last yr they banned the Shift. Imagine Teddy's Avg. if he had NO SHIFT and didn't MISS 5 YRS because HE SERVED IN 2 WARS - WWII + KOREA as a PILOT snd he still had 521 HRs. My GF who became my wife bought me Red Sox tickets to WOO ME (😏) and unknowingly it was the same day Ted was there. They celebrated the 50th Anniversary of his .400 season. Ted and the entire pre-game affair took place no more than 20 ft straight ahead of me. I knew it predetermined I would marry this sweet lady. Thanks Ted Williams.
Great story man!
I know mom wasn't too happy about spending another day in a hospital just so my dad could brag to his friends his kid was named after the Greatest pure hitter in baseball. Now my dad was not the most prejudiced guy on the railroad but it was a time when there was a lot of racial strife and he saw it up close working the New Haven to NY line every day and he got jumped a few times but he did some boxing in his youth and had big, meaty, paws for hands so he could take of himself. He was really an easy going guy... If you didn't phukk w/him or his family. But if you made his blood pressure boil he weighed 240 with a belly but hard as a rock that you couldn't hurt w/your best shot and those big hands. Meaty, Beaty, Big, + Bouncy. Well, mom loves to kid him about the 1st time he told his buddies, 'I named my kid after the greatest hitter of all time.' And one of his pals, who was a 30 something black guy said, 'You really had the balls to name your kid WILLIE MAYS!'. I guessed dad wheeled around w/fire in his eyes. Looked at for him - gave it a beat or 2 to make him wonder, 'Oh Shite! He's gunna hit me'. Then started to laugh. How could you not? That's a funny line that he and mom told many times in their lives when my name came up.
@@Gregory-sm9pf That's so nice of you to take the time to read and respond to it. Thanks brother.
@@thack57 This is also a great story my man! And you're very welcome, see your story involves how it was back in those days , how life was, it involves your family, getting married, it's also amusing. On here you get pretty much the same story but yours was very unique and interesting and I'm from Boston, grew up watching the Sox, been to Fenway park many times like you so it hits home with me also, I'm younger (born in 65) than you but I understand your story and how your expressing it because I'm a Boston guy, I wish you the best life has to offer and thank you for your excellent stories, take care of yourself and your loved ones!
@@Gregory-sm9pf that's beautiful brother. God Bless you. May your road in life have just enough bumps to make it interesting and teach you what NOT to do. I just made that up so I hope it makes sense. Be well.
The fact that he hit .390 late in career without good wheels is more amazing to me than his .400 season. I never saw him but I had his “art of hitting” book as a kid. It’s not his fault I didn’t make the majors!
never heard Ted Williams talk, and Bob Costas was a marvelous interviewer back then, and this is great!!!
Arguably the purest hitter of all time. It was once said he could read the writing on the ball when it was pitched. Incredible hitter.
he says that is an exaggeration but his eyesight was super human-when Ted disagreed with an umpire's call he was almost always correct
Teddy Ballgame is the Greatest hitter of all time. No doubt about it and he lost so many prime years due to war.
I always say that if you gave back Ted's wartime years to baseball he would have tied Babe Ruth or eclipsed him in stats. Both great hitters however.
Agreed. No argument.
I still think Ruth was the GOAT
Bill James rated Ruth and Ted neck and neck as best hitter of all time. When you consider that Ted missed five of his prime years to the military, this is amazing.
I agree
Ruth #1
Teddy a close #2
Then
Lou Gehrig #3.
In the very top tier
@@harmonysinger8077 Bonds is number 3. Lou is 4.
@joemarshall4226
I see your point - I just avoid discussing Bonds.
I had a chance to interview Teddy Ballgame many years ago, and he was not so self-efacing as in this clip. Arrogant, yes indeed, but arrogant WITH accomplishment. And an interesting guy who was well-informed and not just some dumb jock. He was a great radio guest because he loved to talk, and he sure knew baseball. What happened at the end was a shame.
Wow that was nice. Especially the story about the double header on the last day of the season at the end.
THE SPLENDID SPLINTER
He had exceptional vision. He could see the laces on the baseball. lol.
Footballs have laces. Baseballs have seams, but we get your point. 😉👍
All I knew about Ted Williams as a kid (1950s and 1960s) and into adulthood was that Sears Roebuck used his name to sell stuff .
We played baseball but I wasn't even aware there was such a thing as grown ups playing the game until I was perhaps twelve or thirteen.
Seriously. Later I learned that there were fans of the St Louis cardinals in more western parts of the south because their radios could pick up
the signal at night and they'd listen . Since the advent of the world wide web I've read that Williams had vision that would put him in the 99.999 percentile
of acuity. A strong will to suceed and natural athleticism, plus the monetary incentive did the rest. I surmise.
@@joeharris3878 Yes, he was terrific. The last of the 400 batting average hitters. In his last game, which is on the web, he hit a home run over the 420 feet mark.
20:10 vision.
And flying Corsairs in 2 different brutal wars at the peaks of his career.
Greatest hitter ever. Lost several of his prime years to military service. John Glenn’s wing man, had his own line of sporting goods with Sears due to his hunting and fishing skills. He had a pretty successful life.
Lifetime Yankees fan. Ted Williams is my favorite player of all time. He was a mans man x 10. Read 'It's Only Me: the Ted Williams we hardly knew' by John Underwood. Ted came from nothing and was reviled by the Boston fans. Unreal. Here's a semi personal story I have: My friends uncle , Bob Teta, was an Italian crooner back in Teds baseball days in Boston. A snarkey reporter who contantly berided Ted in the papers walked into the club where Bob Teta was working/singing. Ted was at the bar. Ted picked the reporter up by the scruff of his neck and tossed him out into the street. Ted then proceeded to go have his pictures taken in the restaurant kitchen with Bob Teta and some waitresses. My friend has that large glossy! Yeah. THAT Ted Williams!
I'm a lifelong Yankee fan
I have great Respect for Ted, I always have.
I put him right behind Babe Ruth as all time slugger, and I accept that some put him #1.
Because he played the OF with Dom DiMaggio, he Had a good relationship with Joe D. - Friendly rivals.
Being a die-hard Boston Red Sox fan, I THOROUGHLY enjoyed this video!!!
I love listening to these great players talk about their sport. I never knew about the sacrifice fly rile and how it would have boosted Ted’s average to 0.412. Wonder how much it helped Boggs and Carew?
I did not know that either.
They changed the scoring rule the following season (1942). In ‘41, those 6 sacrifice flys counted as at bats, thus hurting the player’s batting average. I did a high school paper on Williams in the 1970s and could have sworn his batting average would have jumped to .411, but Costas is probably correct at .412.
@@johncirillo9544 Cool, thanks for the added information. You have any clue how much this rule change helped both Gwynn, Brett and Carew during their chase to hit 0.400?
i believe there was a time when a walk counted as a hit
@@user-ne8lj5zt3n go to SABR and research “base on balls counted as hits”. You’ll find the history and discover that the last season where BB counted as hits was in the 1800s. I believe the year was 1887 when some players approached .500 batting averages and the scoring rule was changed for 1888.
Ted Williams.
That's it. No need to say more.
Great clip, thanks.
Serving in World War II from 1942-1946, he went to flight school, choosing to prepare himself for combat rather than play on a service baseball team like many others
Ted was a proud SOB, but he ain't lying. Bigger than life character. Costas was good back then before he got full of himself and let politics contaminate his work.
I grew up loving baseball in the 60's and love the game's history. I'd have to say Ted Williams was the best hitter overall ever in the game. I believe he missed a couple of seasons in the prime of his career due to WW2. That's an important consideration. Also, Ted had to have the most beautiful swing I ever saw. Ken Griffey Jr. was pretty good too.
Ted Williams the greatest hitter of all time!
Awesome video
I always liked a guy who never rang his own bell
Defining a hitter can be tricky. What makes one the best? One season of hitting 400 when no one ever came even close to 400? Best hitter in the clutch? Best hitter for one year i.e. 350 ba, 140 rbi's, 52 hr's ? #1 ballplayers are faster stronger better fitness/diet/etc. Much more competition today than when Williams played...just to name a few facts.
I'll take a player who produced CONSISTENT NUMBERS in the major hitting categories year after year. Hammerin Hank Aaron accomplished that like no other player while facing
the fact that he was the black man daring to break Ruth's homerun record living in a white dominated country. Check the records book and let me know if anyone outshines Henry's stats. A class act to boot. Smooth, excellent defensively, good/great arm and could/did steal a few bases.
I'm surprised no one's ever made a movie about this guy. of course, it would be tough finding an actor as charismatic as the real deal was.
Greatest pure hitter of all time-there is a reason he is called Teddy Ballgame
Ted was easily one of the VERY BEST ... Best in some categories .... and along with DiMaggio and others in a small group of greats ..... wrong team .... right guy ! GBjj
Easily would have broken a lot of records with the five years in the war. He wasn’t touring raising money for bonds, he was a fighter pilot, switching to jets in Korea, what a guy.
No one ever accused Ted of being humble.
Ted Williams was great hitter, and it was only exceeded by his personal ego. And, I followed his entire career from beginning to end.
Unlike MOST people with a big ego, Ted Williams EARNED his ego. One of the greatest athletes who ever lived on top of being a war hero. Listening to him talk modestly about his accomplishments almost sounds like a blitzed guy at a bar slurring and bragging about how great he was back in the day. It just doesn't even seem real.
Absolutely best hitter ever if you take into account all the missed wartime games. And might have been the best fighter pilot ever. That's why it's called the greatest generation.
I'll steal a great line said about someone else: "If he's not in a class by himself, it doesn't take long to call roll."
As a kid I remember the first picture of TW’s hitting zone batting averages. I was in awe
There's a handful of hitters that were like trying to sneak a morning past a rooster. 😂
Class act. As a kid I saw his last home run on tv.
Ted was as great as any hitter, Babe Ruth is the only player I might put ahead. Ruth was a Pitcher for his first 5-6 years, imagine how many At Bats Ruth missed out on.
Pitchers hit back then, there was no DH
@@michael-grandpamoses2571 True, but look at the number of at-bats Ruth had in his first 5-6 years because he was a Pitcher and not an Outfielder.
@@tedfio1tedfio1 And your point is? Are you watching what Ohtani's doing? Plus the quality of pitching during Ruth's days overall sucked, let's be honest here
Sure pal, you were there. Babe Ruth is the greatest hitter that ever lived. Ted Williams stated that many times.@@michael-grandpamoses2571
Incorrect...they way to compare is to take the hitter or pitcher in this case Ruth and compare his hitting to the league at the time he played...Ruth is so far ahead of every other player including HOF at the time that Ruth by far does not compare to what Ohtani does doing...does take away from Ohtani but Ruth is the greatest hitter that ever was
380 to straight away right in Fenway. 400 feet to right center. Also cold and wet weather from the Labrador Current in Boston Bay. Did get help from the wind out from behind home plate as the old pressbox as it was much lower than the current height. Net negative for hitting in Fenway.
I’d put Williams, if not #1, certainly in the top 3-5. Ruth, Cobb, among several others before 1940. Bonds no, due to PED. Mantle, if not for his knees would have been unreal. My favorite player was given a reasonably compelling argument as best hitter ever by The Wall Street Journal not long ago, either shortly before or just after his death: Henry Aaron. I kept a copy of it of course!
How my comment is only number 242 is beyond me. This video should have at least . . . 400.
There have been so many great hitters, but Ted has to be near the top of any list.
Just add 5 average years!
williams' career would have been even more impressive if he hadn't been in the marines during WW2 and the Korean War.
The man was very selfless,and served 2+ years during the korean war.Who knows,he may have hit over 600 home runs too? I'd say that he ranks among the top 10 hitters ever.what a sweet swing he had.
For me, best hitter of all time.
If it isn’t Ted I think it’s Cobb. But Ted I think hands down greatest swing most technically perfect swing hands down. He also left to be a war hero as well.
I'm still waiting for a movie to be made for this real life John Wayne. Veteran of two wars, the last .400 hitter, who knows how many home runs he would have had if he hadn't missed all those games during those war years. RIP Teddy ballgame.
I think Williams was easily the best hitter to ever play baseball.
Such a great hitter
All that and a war hero to boot
that is something people forget! some of the biggest stars in baseball lost years to serving in the war! so their numbers would have been even more impressive! the pansie ass bitch players nowadays complain about everything and whine because they are making only 15 million dollars a year. they make make more than those great players made in an entire career! Ted Williams, Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron would all be making 50 million dollars a year nowadays. Plus those all those old school players didnt have the advantages of steroids, workout supplements and advanced workout routines, and advanced medical procedures. There numbers would be out of reach if they would have had those advantages!
Plus he was in Korea early 50s
I was going to note that also.
Ted W..A Marine brother Semper Fi!! RIP
He could say he was the best hitter ever.It would be hard to argue that.
IF WE ADDED IN WHAT TED MISSED BY SERVING IN TWO WARS, NO ONE ELSE CAME CLOSE FOR ALL AROUND HITTING ABILITY.
Did they ask if he farted in the catcher's face? Stuutteerrrring John.
Arguments can be made for Ty Cobb and Rogers Hornsby. The dead ball era was much more difficult to hit in.
Never realized that the rules were changed, from the old-time era, how sac flies affect batting avg!
Fighter Pilot and Baseball Player.
he struck out only 700 times in nearly 10,000 at bats and might have hit 700 home runs if not for the wars
Old Teddy ball game, what a gem
I have 3 of his baseball cards. His face in this video clip is the same as in his baseball cards. He always looked mature
Truly a great hitter. Maybe the greatest.
My uncle gave up a home run to Ted Williams in spring training. That was his claim to fame when he was on the Yankees aaa farm team lol.
And Ted had 2 yrs of WW2 right in his prime, as did Dimaggio and others.
3 years 43,44,45 and basically 2 more years to Korean war 52 and 53
Please don’t ever dare to compare Ted Williams war service with Joe D
@@Annbosguy He wasn't comparing what Ted and Joe did while in the military, only the time they spent serving.
What year was this?
A .482 OBP over a long career is a mind-blowing figure and should be one of the most well-known numbers in MLB history, right there with 56 and 755 and all the rest.
As noted, he not only lost 5 prime years to serve his country but played half his games in Fenway which is not friendly to lefties.
Ted's voice and the way that he speaks sounds a bit like John Wayne.
Ted had a real head for the game.
Ty Cobb greatest hitter of all time, no question! Ted right up there.
Great hitter
Sports Illusrated..Did heavy article on Ted Williams science of Batting. Ted was Tall.Built and 10/ 20 eyesight..and a smart Gentleman Marine.
The greatest hitter to not win a ws. Breaks my heart.... .
Sportsman Show...Boston, 1967..Ted is fly casting into a pool...Us kids standing nearby say...Hi Ted...We're ignored.
Of it's true it ain't bragging.
Satchel Page
Every hitter is a fingerprint. Tony Gwynn, Ty Cobb, Rogers Horny, etc are all different types of hitters although some might categorize them as similar high average low power styles. A 6 foot 4 inch 250 pound hitter isn't better because he hits more balls over the fence but comes close to another hitter's career batting average. Ted Williams is easily in the top 3 hitters of all time. The numbers are clear. I respect his opinion more than anyone else ever on the topic about not calling himself the best ever because he is humble enough to see the problem in comparison, but smart enough to know what makes one hitter better than another. IMHO, he was the best hitter from his era to this day. I still respect him saying he is only top 3.
In the 10 consecutive years of the 1920's, Rogers Hornsby hit .3825 (5451AB -2085H) and won two triple crowns, hitting over .400 in both. He was also a RIGHT-HANDED hitter. In a five-year stretch (1921 to 1925), he hit an insane .4024 (2679AB-1078H.) I know Ted Williams was great, and lost so much of his prime to the war years, but I'm pretty sure the Red Sox were probably stacked with right handed hitters to take advantage of the green monster, so Ted probably faced a ton of right-handed pitching. Williams, Cobb, Ruth, Gehrig and Musial all batted left. And it is also worth noting, the only 'sub-par' year Hornsby had in the 20's was 1926 (.317 BA), when he was also the Cardinals manager, the year they just happened to beat the Yankees in the World Series in 7 games.
You are one of the few I hear mention Hornsby great post. I have him up there but I believe his era was to0 different and the power just wasn’t there compared to Ted.
@@zman8340 Well... Hornsby's 3 highest slugging pct. years were .756, .722, and .696. He lead the league in slugging and total bases 9 years. Over a consecutive 6-year stretch, he led the league in BA, OBP, and SLG. In 1922, he had 450 total bases and 102 extra-base hits. To put that into perspective, Babe Ruth's highest amount of total bases in one year was 457, the year he hit 59 homers. Williams never got anywhere near 450 TB in a season. Hornsby had 5 full seasons during the dead ball era where he didn't hit that many homers, before Ruth revolutionized the game, but once he got going in 1921, he had enough power to wind up with 301 HRS.
Playing in the 20's, 30's, 40's or 50's was a game of white ballplayers. Today we obviously have superstars that came from several other countries. Numbers AND competition
dramatically increases.
@@wmg5852Hornsby was a beast no doubt but he was facing players who had jobs and where throwing in the high 80s in massive ballparks
That greatnes
His voice reminds me of John Wayne.
Ted stands alone at the top as the best hitter of all time...
On that last day of 1941, since he was statistically rounding up to .400, anything more than .400 for the day would be good, but what about anything in the .300 range?
1-3 finishes at .39911
2-6 finishes at .39867
3-8 finishes at .39912
“I think I’ll play and go 6-8.”
A statistical minefield!!!
P.S. Joe DiMaggio batted safely in 56 straight games, another minefield to complete.
Ted was FANTASTIC . Greatest hitter ? He may not have been in a class by himself , but it didn’t take long to call roll .
Josh Gibson should be on the list.
Greatest hitter of all time comes down to just Ruth and Williams. I'll take Teddy Ballgame.
No one with class would ever say they were the GOAT even if it was clearly the truth. Was he? In his era absolutely. From the beginning of the time the game began being played? That’s what makes for good conversations.
Listen to Ted Williams. Is it Ted Williams or John Wayne? One of the best-ever ballplayers there will ever be. That's for sure.
Let's put it this way, Williams was the Duke of baseball
My Daddy lived baseball . Said The Splendid Splinter , was the best Could "bust em " . And missed years because of military service. People forget that and Honus Wagner also .
Hoover High School (San Diego) Grad, 1936 I think!
i'd give it to him, granted he played in a segregated game, but minus that his numbers speak for themselves, and you can't say he played in a war depleted league, he missed 3 years due to military service, during his prime, when he was averaging 35 home runs, 130 rbi, and a .350 batting ave. he still owns the highest on base percentage, he consistently led the league in walks, and would strike out around 40 times in a season.
If you're considering just hitting, Williams is the guy. Power and average. Walked three times the times he Kd. The four years of service too him out of many best of counting categories - but he would have been near the top in all of them had he played. With the Sac fly rule as well, would have even finished with a HIGHER final BA.
Mr. Williams was the GOAT.