Word: bats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most of his worries had to do with his specialty: batting at a consistently better clip than any other player of his time. It is his earnest and sorrowful conviction that the pitching in the American League is getting better & better as time rolls on. If so, this will obviously make it even more difficult than it has been in the past for Ted Williams to do what he wants to do every time he comes to bat, i.e., hit the ball into the right-field stand...
Simply & Forever. Fortunately, when it is his turn at bat, Ted is usually able to push all such pessimistic reflections well back in his head, leaving him in just the right state of mental tension and physical relaxation to give close attention to what the pitcher is throwing him. In St. Petersburg, Fla. last week he showed the World Champion New York Yankees just how this delicate adjustment of worry and ease is supposed to work. It was the last of five grapefruit-circuit games between the Yankees and the Sox; each team had won two games. In the first...
...satisfy any other man in baseball is not enough for Theodore Samuel Williams. As a boy in San Diego, Calif, he resolved, simply and forever, to become the best ballplayer of his generation. Big Ted has never forgotten his boyish decision, and, at 31, he has come within a bat-length of achieving...
Pitching & Prophecy. At bat, the well-heeled Sox are the most dangerous club in either league. Comparatively weak in seasoned pitchers, they boast two fine ones on 1949 form: Left-hander Mel Parnell, 27, who won 25 games, and Right-hander Ellis Kinder, 35, who won 23. Back of them are two young lefthanders, Chuck Stobbs, 20, and Speed Artist Maurice Mc-Dermott, 21, who are both marked "promising." On paper the Sox have the best first team in the business, but they are weak "on the bench," i.e., in replacements. Midseason injuries to such mainstays as dependable Bobby Doerr...
...baseball since grade-school days: "I was always the first to get there in the morning," he remembers, "so as to be on hand when the janitor opened the closet where they kept the athletic equipment. By the time the other kids showed, I'd have the bat in my hand, to be first up. We'd play until school started and then again at recess...