There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived.

This is awesome! Thanks for posting!

I’m a former baseball player and now I play an ancient Irish sport called hurling. To score I have to self pitch the ball to myself and I’ve been watching his advice to improve my swing. It’s been really helpful actually. Especially when he talks about cutting up when you swing and how to chose the right bat. A hurling stick is made of ash and it’s about the size and weight of a baseball bat.

Look at how he's all about form. Nothing fancy. Just a clean swing that's rooted in the basic mechanics of baseball. He doesn't wave his bat around, he doesn't flip it, he just plays the game.

Holy sh*t! I'm 43 years old and this is the greatest video I've ever seen! I literally can't believe I'm watching and listening to Ted F-ing Williams giving my 9 year old son hitting advice. I HATE technology...but it's moment like these I do appreciate it. The greatest hitter of all times still lives thanks to videos like these! Awesome great amazing unbelievable video.

Williams sets the record at .406, one of sports' all time greatest records, still standing after over 80 years😳, right up there with Wilt's 100 and Pistol's averaging 44 at LSU. Just INCREDIBLE human achievements. But here's a bit of trivia; SIXTEEN YEARS AFTER SETTING THE RECORD at .406, Williams bats .388 to come in FOURTH after himself. Just unreal, and never talked about

My 6 yo became obsessed with hitting a couple weeks ago, when he connected on sweet spot with wiffle ball bat. So Loaded up on used baseballs and tennis balls , and he’s been at about an hour a day . Try not coach him much because want it to stay fun, and he’s got good natural mechanics , but showed him this video today , and likely will about 25 times more this year . It’s basically all you need to know about hitting a baseball .

Ted Williams and Josh Donaldson are the only hitters that have helped me get better at batting. I legit feel more power when I began using their advice.

Greatest swing of all time!! Simple & Sweet!

Looks and sounds like this guy knows what he's doing. LOL!!! The Splendid Splinter...The greatest hitter ever!!!

If Ted were playing today he would still be the best hitter in baseball. He would make whatever adjustment he needed to make to hit today's pitchers. The same type adjustments he made against certain pitchers when he played. Most haven't studied Ted's material enough to truly understand what he did when he hit. You'll never figure out what he did by just reading his book "TSOH". You really need to throw out your current belief system on hitting and view his material with a completely open mind. The guy was the Einstein of hitting. He understood bio-mechanics and how the human body naturally works. That's why his swing looks so fluid. He didn't let anyone coach out the natural movements needed to hit a baseball well.

I remember reading the sports section of the local paper when Ted Williams hit a home run in his last at bat before he retired. I was 15. I wish I had kept the article.

I also helped that Williams had amazing eyesight. He could tell exactly where on the baseball he made contact. Once he did an experiment where he coated the barrel of his bat with pine tar. Then he would call the spot he made contact with, and it was compared to the mark on the ball. He would say things like, right across the seam...half inch below the seam...hit on top of the ball, etc. And the mark on the ball would confirm exactly what he said on each pitch. Williams also claimed that he could see the ball deform when he was making contact. Ted Williams was probably the most intense student of the game that ever lived. Williams was proof that if you, as a batter, become fundamentally sound, things like "launch angle" and "exit velocity" will take care of themselves.

One of the greatest fighter pilots in WW-II and Korean War fighter piloits.

Great video. I was 11 in 1960 when he played his last game. Williams was one of my heroes. We could never get enough batting practice because of the logistical problems of pitching and htting a baseball, so we worked out a good training system. We'd take a wiffle bat and ball and pitch at full speed from 25-30 feet. If you've got a good arm the ball comes in pretty fast at that distance. And the ball does crazy things being full of holes and so light. We'd do that until it got easy and then switch to a wooden bat. It developed quick reactions, wrist speed and power, and the ability to track the ball very quickly. if you got so you could hit the ball consistently with the wood bat, the biggest problem when you got in a game was waiting on the pitch. The ball seemed to take forever to get to you from 60 feet.

When I was a kid in the 1970's & Baseball was my life, I wish I had the advantage of watching videos like this. Our little league & Babe Ruth coaches were always somebody's Dad who knew a little & usually was involve because his kid was on the team, so we didn't get the best coaching. My way of hitting was trying to copy my heroes like how Reggie Jackson looked like when hitting although I was moderately successful, I never knew the fine points broken down like in this video.

Ted Williams and Tony Gwynn are the greatest pure hitters baseball has ever seen.

Amazing how modern his hitting was. Decades above everyone else.

One of my favorite all-time players who certainly has words of wisdom for batters thank you for sharing and God bless from Patrick

This is awesome! Thanks for sharing this

He was quite the physical specimen ...built for pro ball ...all around American hero ⚾️🏆👨‍✈️

Teddy Ballgame...The best damned hitter I ever saw!!! Also a American hero as a decorated Marine Corp fighter pilot in WWII!!

San Diego born and raised baby! Go Ted aka The Kid. Interesting fact his Mexican-American uncle who played semi pro ball showed him as a young child. ⚾️💪🏻 🇺🇸🇲🇽

When Baseball was Baseball! ❤

As a baseball coach I couldn't possibly agree more with all the tips in this video

Best hitter of all time...the man was brilliant...hitting was his life....

At 2:12 it looked like Ted was crowding the plate pretty good. IMO Ted was the greatest hitter of all time. Tons of other greats. But consider how many years he was absent serving his country. Damn good pilot so I've read. He was probably one of those people that was just great at anything he did.

So cool.

Baseball Hitting GOAT 🐐! I watched hit .563 in HS 12 dingers .. moved on to Strong 💪🏻 Beach Dirt Bags! Rest is history!

Teddy Ballgame understood launch angle before it was even dreamed about as a thing.

San Diego represent!

awesome.

The key is front shoulders down and back, it creates bat speed. Great video

as a Cleveland Indians fan, i've always like Ted Williams' answer whenever a reporter asked him "Who were the best pitchers and the toughest to hit pitchers you ever faced in your long career?" Ted Williams mlways answered "That's easy. The answer to BOTH questions is BOB FELLER."

Rules for life. 😉

On Point!

Greatest of all time... Not so good in explaining it, but can't blame him... HE JUST DOES IT! Teddy Williams- Greatest Latino Baseball Plater of All Time.

The Swing

Goat

Batting with Ted Williams from 16mm Film

This is exactly TED!!!

Really helpful

He makes hitting that home run at the end look so simple and natural---a joy to watch, different from today's batters. And...Ted Williams didn't need any "batting gloves" to hit .400.....

The "Splendid Splinter" of Blessed Memory, Tky, yy

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Calling all cars. Calling all cars.

He went 6 for 8 in the last doubleheader on the last day of the season in 1941. He raised his average from .3999 to .406. He won two triples crowns. He would murder the bullpen pitchers of today.

I noticed Ted used more of a box type grip then knuckles lined up. Interesting.

Ted crowded the plate!

Ted williams is so right! A lot of times hitters have a tendency to open up and not keep your head straight

One thing I tell anyone I coach hitting to is to do strength exercises for your hands, wrists and forearms. You want to have vice grip hands for hitting.

His power is all in his hips

dang i wish i watched this when i was in little league

It's quick hands barrel to the ball. Then the hips ,leg power follow through look good..!!!!

The mound during Williams time was 18" high, steeper angle harder to hit, to day it is 12", the Ball Parks were larger harder to hit a HR and he dealt with the Williams shift his whole career and still had a .344 BA, and 521 HRS. Last man to hit .400. today piching is watered down, we have added 14 teams since Williams played, they were the best of the best. Today 30 teams and in 1941 16 teams. Miguel is good but not enough time has gone by to put him Williams League!

He held his bat straight up at the plate he said it felt lighter in his book.He mentioned standing back from the plate which he never did? When you stand up on the plate it allows you to cover the whole plate keeping your hands in gives you the control and power to cover the whole plate, once you start reaching or casting your bat you lose your power. I just read his book from 1970 good tips from still the last hitter to bat .400!

I learned how to hit by watching Ted Williams videos and then making adjustments in the cages.

It took God 6 days to create the world, on the 7th Ted showed him how to hit.

GREATEST HITTER

Ted Williams did not step toward the pitcher. Williams baled out slightly.

Ted here doesn't mention cocking and rotating the hips, which he emphasized later in "The Science of Hitting."

What year?

2:20.... that right fielder would be sitting the bench after that zero effort. wtf was that? he could have easily caught it.

Does it seem as if Ted does not keep his back elbow tucked in? Obviously Mr. Williams is one of the all time greats. That said, don't many great hitters keep the back elbow a little more tucked?

The bats they used back then weighed like a thousand pounds and the handles were thick as trees.

You know what the really frustrating thing about learning how to hit is? The contradictions by contemporary hitting instructors who think they have it all figured out, and then you see the greatest hitter of all time doing just the opposite. I just watched a video on this site only less than an hour ago where the instructor was saying the front foot, the ENTIRE front foot from heel to toe should all plant at the same time and then the front foot should NOT pivot. Keep the front foot planted. The back foot pivots, not the front foot. Then, just out of curiosity, I decided to take another look at Williams and see what HE was doing. Wouldn't you know it? FRONT FOOT PIVOTS with stride. Unbelievable. I actually think this perfectly illustrates one of the problems with contemporary coaching. They are trying too hard to get everything "perfect" and not just on hitting... pitching too. I remember the insanely successful RH Pitcher Juan Marichal, when in the windup, use to practically point the cleats of his left foot towards the sky before he delivered his fastball with the left foot coming down and the right arm coming around like some kind of vicious windmill. If a pitcher in the minors tried that today, he would be sent to some mechanics specialist to try and correct it. Geez. Message to coaches from little league on up.... PLEASE stop over-coaching. Let the players figure out what is working for THEM, and then back off. I'm not saying don't teach ANY mechanics. I am simply saying there is more than one way to get things done. Can you imagine someone telling Musial his feet were too close together in his stance? It's especially disgusting to me when I see a coach telling a kid maybe 10 years old ... telling him 47 different things to improve his hitting. Information overload. Trying to put so much information into him about his shoulders, feet, hands, while yo are at it, don't forget to tell him to do a couple of calculus problems in his head on the way to first base.. oh, by all means, don't forget to tell him the proper way to wear his jock strap so as to put as much power into his swing as possible. Geez. They are over-coaching in little league, they are over-coaching in MLB, and everything in between.

I had no idea he choked up on the bat.

why this are not in spanish? it is awesome and thre are many spanishs fans

he didnt lift weights, workout or take steroids

Ted Williams did not step toward the pitcher. Williams bails out at 1:07.

Sounds like John Wayne

They are not hitting with their hands and wrist 😂 They are rotating into the ball with their hands very much following the power and momentum of their hip rotation. You also see that they(the best hitters) overwhelming drive with their bottom hand and do not push their top hand through the zone

Watch 2:13 to see Williams bale out. He does not stride toward the pitcher.

did you know he is my Great Great GrandFather :3

32 33 bat speed

I have CLOSELY read the comments. QUESTION !!!! IF---IF TED WILLIAMS had those 'FIVE YEARS"of his PRIME YEARS PLAYING, which he spent FLYING in WORLD WAR ll and the KOREAN WAR , what would his CAREER and RECORDS be ????? BATTING AVG ? R B i 's,? HOME RUNS ? TOTAL BASES ?, M V P's ? ETC. ETC. NO ONE can even guess accurately. MANY baseball statistics and records would undergo dramatic revision.

Best advice to hitters is just relax

Yes, but Ted would be 95 years old now!

RealJizKhalifa and heffbee are so right in their comments in response to Glenchirvin's comment. 1.) Glenchirvin is an idiot, 2.) Ted Williams would indeed be 95 years old today as heffbee said, and 3.) if Ted Williams were in the league today he would hit .270 at the ripe old age of 95, and 4.) in my estimation if Ted Williams were playing in the league today at the age of 28 and in his prime, he would hit .470.

anyone know what year this was?

Church

Right fielder gives no effort at 2:20

hey anyone know what it means by "remember the V"?

Three best hitters of all-time (post 1940), I have a three way tie between Aaron, Mays and T. Williams.

123 WAR / lifetime.482 OBP

The best eye on a baseball there ever was. A record for most walks. The complete ballplayer.

Too bad he didn't have all the amazing steroids we have today...his day, they only had speed and booze and booze is counterproductive when it come to hitting

His head barely moves, It's like it's frozen.

No helmets in the day...

Today's athletes are mostly working out in the weight room all the time, using tailor made bats to their exact weight and balance, using all kinds of 'enhancements' for their bodies, etc... The old timers were smokers, drinkers, barely worked out, if at all, used whatever equipment they got their hands on for the most part and didn't have any 'enhancements' available to them. Sports were more fun and less serious. Watch the old games, there was no chest pounding, excessive celebrating, yelling and screaming all the time like today's sportsmen. Call me old but I would prefer less bravado and showmanship in today's sports.

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He was a scientist in the batting box. Ted Williams is the only one who can rival the Ruth.

Ted was an exceptional hitter for his era but if he took that swing and that bat speed up against today's big league flame throwers, he'd probably to hit .100.

Yo, dat guy was racist and sheit

lol, some of the greatest athletes aren't the best coaches or instructors, and lot of great athletes have incredible innate skills that can't be taught. if there was a perfect way to hit everyone would be doing it but everyone is built differently and has different strengths and weaknesses, a good instructor can adjust a person to their own strengths, and see what may be causing a problem, there are fundamentals that increase productivity but there is no prefect science to hitting or pitching.

*Babe Ruth was better*