Word: williamses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Williams, 50, returned to Boston's Fenway Park as the rookie manager of the Washington Senators. It was in that ballpark that he became known as Terrible Ted, throwing bats, spitting in derision, cursing unfriendly sportswriters and refusing to tip his hat to the crowd. It was...
A Whole New Ball Game. Actually, he never left. One of the game's greatest technicians, he relived baseball with all the ardor of a stuffed-chair general hashing over the old battles. Even on those long, languid afternoons of bonefishing off the Florida Keys, Williams would start lecturing...
Now that Williams is back in uniform, nothing has changed. He is still holding classes on the dynamics of the knuckleball-only now he is getting paid $65,000 a season for it. No tutor ever had more enraptured pupils, or ones so in need of help. The team he...
Well, sort of. What Williams' tutelage comes down to is a brushup on the basics, a touch of inspiration and lots of positive thinking. "Nobody knows that little game between the pitcher and the batter better than I do," he says. At practice sessions, he stations himself behind the...
Booming and Banging. The only pressure the Senators are feeling these days is trying to live up to the handy die-turns of "No. 9," as they reverently refer to Williams. Brinkman, who hit a pathetic .187 last year, keeps reminding himself to "meet the ball, meet the ball." In...