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The Kid would be 100 Thursday. Ted Williams was born on Aug. 30, 1918. How could The Kid ever turn 100? We lost Ted Williams in July of 2002, but imagine if he had lived. We’d have headlines ...
Red Sox legend Ted Williams often stood out even among baseball's stars. This was never truer than his history in baseball's Major League All-Star Game. Here's a look at a few times "The Kid ...
Ted Williams was a stubborn, independent personality who wasn’t thrilled about interrupting his career for either war. When World War II broke out, his mother was financially dependent on him ...
Ted Williams, who died Friday at 83, had a dream. When he walked down the street, he wanted people to say, "There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived." ...
Joe DiMaggio, who knew something about the subject, called Ted Williams “by far the greatest natural hitter I ever saw.” The Kid lost five productive years, serving as a military pilot during ...
First of three articles adapted from “The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams,” by Ben Bradlee Jr., to be published Tuesday by Little, Brown and Co. The Kid appeared in the small room on ...
Former Washington, D.C. homicide detective Ted Williams discusses how juvenile crime is affecting the nation's capital and ...
The loony facts keep replaying like a highlight reel: Last Friday, hours after Ted Williams died of cardiac arrest at 83, his corpse was flown from Florida to the Alcor Life Extension Foundation ...