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0 -- Players who have hit .400 since Ted Williams' .406 average in 1941. |

Ted Williams put up a dizzying array of numbers in his career. AP
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.482 -- Williams' career on-base percentage, a major league record. Since Williams retired after 1960, only three players have reached that OBP in a single season -- Norm Cash (.487 in '61), Frank Thomas (.487 in '94) and Barry Bonds (.515 in '01). Williams' OBP of .551 in 1941 is a single-season record. |
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.634 -- Williams' career slugging percentage, second all-time only to Babe Ruth's .690. |
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1 -- Number of times Williams played against Lou Gehrig. It happened on April 20, 1939. Williams, a rookie, hit a double off Red Ruffing while Gehrig went hitless in the Yankees' 2-0 victory. |
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2 -- MVP awards won by Williams, in '46 and '49. Williams finished in the Top 10 in AL MVP voting 12 times, finishing second four times. In 1947, he lost by a single point to Joe DiMaggio despite winning one of his two Triple Crowns that season. |
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4 -- Consecutive home runs hit by Williams during a four-game span in September, 1957. Williams was walked 11 times, so the four home runs came in his only four official at-bats. He ended his HR streak with a single. |
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4.50 -- Williams' ERA in his only pitching appearance, two innings of mop-up duty in 1940. He allowed one earned run on three hits with one strikeout. |
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5 -- Players who have a higher lifetime batting average than Williams' .344 -- Ty Cobb (.367), Rogers Hornsby (.358), Joe Jackson (.356), Ed Delahanty (.346) and Tris Speaker (.345). |
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6 -- Players in history who have hit at least 500 home runs and 500 doubles while compiling 2,500 hits: Williams, Ruth, Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Frank Robinson and Eddie Murray. |
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7 -- Postseason games played by Williams, all in the '46 World Series. He batted .200 (5-for-25) with one RBI as the Red Sox fell to the St. Louis Cardinals. |
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10 -- The record for total bases in an All-Star Game, set by Williams in 1946. Williams also set the record for most runs in an All-Star Game (4), tied the mark for most hits (4) and most HR (2). Williams has driven in the most runs in All-Star Game history (12). |
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12 -- Number of seasons Williams had enough at-bats to qualify in the AL batting race. He won six batting titles (1941, '42, '47, '48, '57, '58) and finished second three times. Only 12 different players finished ahead of Williams in batting in those 12 seasons. |
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17 -- Grand slams hit by Williams, tied for fourth on the all-time list with Jimmie Foxx. Only Lou Gehrig (23), Eddie Murray (19) and Willie McCovey (18) have hit more. |
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49 -- Combat missions flown by Williams in the Korean War. |
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61 -- Multihit games by Williams in his 1941 season, during which he played a total of 143 games. He went hitless only 30 times. |
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88 -- Home runs hit by Williams against the Tigers, his most against any team. His highest batting average against any opponent was .393 (296-for-754) against the St. Louis Browns. His lowest was .320 against the Indians. |
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98 -- Game-winning home runs hit by Williams in his career. |
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150 -- Runs scored by Williams in 1949. Only one player has scored 150 or more runs in a season since -- Jeff Bagwell with 152 in 2000. |
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273 -- Number of Williams' 521 home runs that were hit on the road, compared with 248 at Fenway Park. His batting average was higher at home (.361) than on the road (.328).
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273-364 -- Williams' career record (.429) as manager of the Washington Senators/Texas Rangers from 1969-72. His first year was his best as the Senators improved 21 games from the previous year to finish 86-76. |
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282 -- Number of writers, out of 302, who voted Williams into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1966 on his first ballot, a percentage of 93.38, the 15th highest of all time. |
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1,235 -- The size, in pounds, of the black marlin Williams caught off the coast of Peru in 1954. |
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1,310 -- Difference in walks (2,019) to strikeouts (709) compiled by Williams in his career. |