Ted's .406 in 1941 is not the highest single-season batting average ever. Or even close. It's just the LAST time a major leaguer hit .400 or higher. (The last time previous was Bill Terry at 401 in 1930, ten years before Ted did it.) Rogers Hornsby hit .424 in 1924, .403 in 1925, and .401 in 1922. George Sisler hit .420 in 1922 and .407 in 1920. Ty Cobb hit .409 in 1911, .419 in 1912 and .401 in 1922. There were numerous others in the 1900s and others still in the 1880s and 1890s. If you bring in the Negro Leagues, there are even more.

Yeh, I coulda been someone with that kind of coaching.

Student of hitting. He didn't seem to care much about the rest of the game, especially as a manger.

I used to hurl when I drank too much beer. I didn't think of it as a sport though.

Back then the average fastball was only about 60 mph

@@TwoPyramid morn 60

@@brucefranklin1317 lol, true

It is no lie that Roberto Clemente used a bigger and heavier bat than Aaron Judge uses right now....Clemente's bat was not quite maximum legal length, but it was max weight. When I was growing up, one of my friends was a Forbes Field one night when the Pirates were taking batting practice. Clemente cracked on of his bats, and as he was going back to the dugout to get a new bat, my buddy asked him if he could have the cracked bat (of course, this was back in the day before every piece of sports memorabilia had a price tag on it.) Clemente said he could, but to let the equipment guy nail the crack. Clemente finished his turn in the batting cage, walked into the dugout and came back out with the bat and handed to my buddy. We never used it when we were playing because it was cracked and nailed, but more importantly, we were only about 10 or 11, and none of us could swing it. We called it the "Dinosaur Club." Clemente was not a big man, but that bat was freakin' huge.

He said he backed off the plate on the advice of Paul Waner, in order to beat the shift.

Did you read Jim Bouton's book "Ball Four?" In the book Bouton related stories other players told him about Williams taking batting practice and all the time shouting, "I'm Ted F---ing Williams! (Crack). Jesus H. Christ Himself couldn't get me out today (Crack). And now here comes Larson and that s--t slider of his (Crack). And he thinks he's getting me out with that (Crack)."

Wow, great catch. It figures that he's full of baloney and probably got by on natural ability rather than technique.

@@TwoPyramid Williams had great eyesight. He had 20/10 vision.

@@johndeagle4389 yes, his success was truly based on his many physical gifts. He was also an intelligent person.

@@TwoPyramid Saul Venzor helped Williams out as a kid.

@@johndeagle4389 ok, interesting, I didn't know he had an uncle who was a player.

So what? You Social Justice Warriors use that term so much that it no longer means anything. F-ck You, Woke Warrior.

You ever hear of Ty Cobb and Rogers Hornsby....😕

ichiro definitely up there too

(Cough...) BabeRuth

Dave Kingman

@@TwoPyramid Cute.

Lmao! Ted Williams would hit better than any contact player today. He would put Jeff McNeil to shame.

@Steve Witte Bullshit. Today's pitchers throw harder and have better breaking balls. Get real. The avg velocity of big league pitchers is 95 mph. That type of speed wasn't no where near as common back in Ted's era as you say.

@Steve Witte I have read that book and Williams was ahead of his time but put him in today's game and he wouldn't be that good. He was great for his era and that's it. The pitchers he faced are nowhere near as good as pitchers hitters from the last few decades have to face. By the way, the book is called "The Science of Hitting", NOT the "Art of Hitting". I know more about Teddy Ballgame than you do. Lol

If you believe that, I have some beachfront property in Phoenix to sell you...