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| This series of six black and white photographs celebrates the man who desired, successfully most would agree, to become "the greatest hitter that ever lived." Each photo is double matted in a wooden frame and has a descriptive caption laser engraved on a metal plate. Made by Mounted Memories and officially licensed by Major League Baseball, all six of the "Ted Williams Classic Moments" are limited in edition to 1,941 pieces. |
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Ted Williams Classic Moments #1 The Kid Meets Double XX Prior to Ted's arrival, Jimmie Foxx was the best hitter to ever don a Red Sox uniform. The year before Williams debuted in Boston the man known as the "Beast" and "Double XX" was named the AL MVP after hitting 50 home runs and driving in 175 runs. In 1939, The Kid joined Foxx in the Red Sox line-up and the duo terrorized AL pitching for 3½ seasons. "I truly loved Foxxie," said Williams, who when he retired had hit more homers (521) than anyone in baseball history expect for Foxx (534) and Babe Ruth (714).
The engraved plate reads Size: 14½" x 19" x 1"
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Ted Williams Classic Moments #2 Midsummer Classic "The most thrilling hit of my career" for Ted Williams occured at the All-Star game on July 8, 1941 in Detroit. With the American League trailing by a run in the bottom of the ninth with two on and two out, Williams hammered a fastball from the Cubs' Claude Passeau off the right-field facade for a game-winning three run homer. "Halfway down to first, seeing that ball going out, I stopped running and started leaping and jumping and clapping my hands, and I was so happy I laughed out loud," Williams said of the homer.
The engraved plate reads Size: 16½" x 17½" x 1"
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Ted Williams Classic Moments #3 The Greatest Season Ever Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio were nearly traded for each other in 1949, but they will always be linked together for their exploits in 1941, when DiMaggio won the AL MVP award on the strength of his 56-game hitting streak, while Ted finished second in balloting despite hitting .406. "It is probably my misfortune that I have been and will inevitably be compared with Joe DiMaggio," wrote Williams in his memoir. "We were of the same era. We were the two top players of our league. In my heart I have always felt that I was a better hitter than Joe, which was always my first consideration, but I have to say that he was the greatest player of our time. He could do it all."
The engraved plate reads Size: 16½" x 17½" x 1"
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Ted Williams Classic Moments #4 US Marine Williams missed nearly five full baseball seasons (1943-45, '52-53) during the prime of his career to serve as a Marine fighter pilot in World War II and the Korean War. Ted excelled in aviation just as he did on the ballfield and received an Air Medal and two Gold Stars for his service in Korea, where he flew 39 combat missions, many of them as John Glenn's wingman. "If I hadn't had baseball to come back to, I might have gone on as a Marine pilot," Williams said of his military experience.
The engraved plate reads Size: 14½" x 19" x 1"
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Ted Williams Classic Moments #5 The Splendid Splinter and The Rock New England's two idols in the 1950s both dreamt of becoming baseball players in their youth, but for Rocky Marciano that dream died in 1947, when The Rock from Brockton was cut from a Chicago Cubs farm team in Fayetteville, NC. Marciano went from trying to throw out runners as a catcher to knocking out heavyweights in the ring. He retired as champion in 1956 with a perfect 49-0 record and after having forged a friendship with Ted Williams, who once gave Rocky his baseball cap, which the champ proudly wore around his training camp.
The engraved plate reads Size: 14½" x 19" x 1"
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Ted Williams Classic Moments #6 Going Out With A Bang On a chilly and overcast Wednesday afternoon, before a crowd of only 10,454 at Fenway, Teddy Ballgame came to bat for the last time in his career. In the bottom of the eighth, after receiving a two-minute ovation prior to the at-bat, Williams hit a 1-1 fastball from Baltimore's Jack Fisher 440 feet into the Boston bullpen for a home run. It was the 521st homer in the Splendid Splinter's legendary career. "Baseball has given me everything I wanted," Williams, 42-years old at the time, said after the game, his 2,292nd and final.
The engraved plate reads Size: 16½" x 17½" x 1"
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