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Joseph E. Barton ’64, a community advocate who mediated an ongoing battle between the Red Sox and residents of the Fenway neighborhood, died of bladder cancer a week ago Monday...
They named a candy bar for Babe Ruth and a disease for Lou Gehrig. Ted Williams they just called names. Officially he was the Kid, the Splendid Splinter, Thumper, but the best ballplayer to make Boston his home received less flattering sobriquets from Red Sox fans at Fenway Park. That's what you get for refusing to tip your hat after a home...
...When he died last week at 83 from cardiac arrest in Inverness, Fla., Fenway Park groundkeepers mowed Williams' number, a giant 9, in the left-field grass he used to patrol. And elegists certified his pre-eminence. They pointed to his six batting titles (the first when he was 23, the last when he was 40), his 521 home runs, his astronomical on-base percentage of .483. They recalled his military heroism. He interrupted his career for nearly five years to fly for the Navy in World War II and 39 combat missions for the Marines in the Korean...
Boston baseball fans gave a last hurrah to Ted Williams yesterday, and their hero responded with a booming homerun in his last time at bat in Fenway Park...
...outfielder who made good on his goal to become baseball's greatest hitter with a .400 average; in Crystal River, Florida. The Hall of Famer began playing for the Red Sox in 1939. After a brief stint as a Marine flyer during World War II, he returned to Fenway Park, hitting his final major league ball?a home...