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Message: [QUOTE="60'sfan, post: 3578788, member: 1155"] Here's another Ted WIlliams story. I worked at Winchester in New Haven in the 70's. Ted Williams had retired by then and was working for Sears as their sports PR guy. We supplied firearms to Sears so they would often send a rep to tour the factory and attend our management meeting. One year we were delighted to find out that it would be the Splendid Splinter himself. When he arrived, our HR manager took him for a factory tour. Most of the employees in the shop were African-Americans. When Ted would arrive in a department he would be inundated with autograph requests. Often the employees would hand him some currency and ask him to sign it. After a while, Ted turned to the employees and said with his less than subtle voice, "Where do you n-----s get all this money?" Our HR manager was appalled but the employees just laughed. Only Ted could have pulled that off. Later that evening, at the management dinner Ted was fielding questions. Someone asked him if he thought that anyone would ever hit .400 again. He said if it happened it would have to be someone with great speed who could beat out some infield hits. I interrupted and pointed out that he had hit .388 at the age of 38 in 1957. His response was interesting. He said that year was very unusual. He and Mantle were both hitting on the .360's at mid-year and from that point on, almost everything he hit seemed to drop in. Another 10 hits or so and he would have hit .400. It was a great evening for a stats nerd like me. [/QUOTE]

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