Up on the blog today, we have a 1972 "Turn back the Clock" card celebrating the great Ted Williams and his SECOND Triple Crown season:
The man was a hitting machine!
All
he did during that historic 1947 campaign was lead the American League
with 125 runs scored, 32 homers, 114 runs batted in and a .343 average,
along with a .499 on-base percentage and a .634 slugging percentage, YET
finished second behind the New York Yankees Joe DiMaggio for the MVP
Award. Total joke!
Just five years before that he also took
home the Triple Crown when he led the league with 141 runs scored, 36
homers, 137 RBIs and a .356 average, this a year after he hit .406 in
the legendary 1941 season.
Easily the greatest all-around
hitter the game ever saw, Williams took home six batting titles, four
home run titles and four RBI titles over his career, a career that saw
him lose five seasons because of military service because of World War
II and the Korean War.
Just incredible to think he could have
reached 700 home runs, 2000+ RBIs, 2000+ runs scored and 3500 hits if
not for time lost for reasons other than injury.
I will forever be in awe of this man and what he accomplished both on and off the playing field.
