Ted Williams wanted to be known as the greatest hitter who ever lived. When he failed to meet those expectations, pity anything that got in his way. Like a water cooler. After popping up in a ...

“I’d spit again at the same peopled who boohed me today,” Ted Williams said last night after learning of the $5,000 fine imposed on him by Sox owner Tom Yawkey. There was talk about that ...

If there was a baseball player who rivaled DiMaggio in his day, it was undoubtedly Ted Williams, the spectacular hitter who played for the Boston Red Sox, then the Yankees fiercest rival.

Struck on the right elbow by a non-curving curve-ball, Ted Williams, the heavy artillery of the Red Sox attack, was painfully bruised in yesterday’s exhibition game at Fenway Park against an ...

He wanted to be not only good, but great at it," says broadcaster Curt Gowdy about Ted Williams, on ESPN Classic's SportsCentury series. Thanks in large part to the media, Ted Williams wore the ...