Baseball star Ted Williams was born in San Diego, California, in 1918. A gifted hitter, Williams made his Major League debut with the Boston Red Sox at age 20 in 1939. Over the next two decades—except for time that he served in the military as a Navy pilot in World War II and a Marine pilot in the Korean War—Williams was as good a hitter as the game had ever seen. The left-fielder won six batting titles, was the league’s home run and RBI champ four times and twice captured the Triple Crown. In 1941, he finished the season with a .406 average. He is the last Major League player ever to top the 400 mark.
Over the next two decades Williams became one of the game’s all-time great hitters. Even as other parts of his game began to erode with age, Williams could still swing an effective bat. In 1957, at the age of 39, he hit .388 to become the oldest player in history to lead the league in batting average.

Still, it proved to be a tearful goodbye when Williams hung up his cleats for good in September 1960. As usual, however, Williams went out in style, belting a home run into Fenway Park's bleacher seats in his final at bat. Overall, Williams finished with a career average of .344—the sixth highest since 1990—and 521 homeruns.
He retired from baseball in 1960 and was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1966.
Williams continued to stay connected to the game of baseball. He managed the Washington Senators for three years, and later did some coaching for the Red Sox.
An avid fisherman, Williams spent as much time as he could out on the water. His life, though, took a dramatic turn in 1994 when a stroke greatly limited his ability to walk.
Over the course of his life, Williams married three times and had three children.
Williams died of a stroke in Inverness, Florida, on July 5, 2002. Controversy clouded his passing because instead of being cremated as he had wished, his son, John, had his father’s body cryogenically frozen at a facility in Scottsdale, Arizona.

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