Ted Williams Documentary on HBO

[Band of Brothers]

If you dig baseball like I do there is a great documentary on HBO Demand right now made back in 2009 on Ted Williams. Since Boston is in town I thought it was a good time to share this with baseball fans.

HBO did a great job and I learned some new things about the Greatest pure hitter to ever play the game. A fighter pilot and instructor Williams lost like 5 years to wars and it's mind boggling what numbers he would of put up if he could of played those years. He was a complex dude , an American hero, and one great ballplayer.

The scenes when he came out in the golf cart during the All Star game in Boston and was surrounded by all the current players and the former great players gave me chills down my back. That was a awesome moment.

I really enjoyed the Ted Williams story. I hope you do too.


Giants vs. Boston tonight in SF....Can't wait !

Pedroia is one of my favorite players in baseball. He plays the game the right way always.

Go Giants !!

 

[Brahmsian]

I doubt that documentary will say anything about how "Teddy Ballgame"'s indifference to anything but hitting cost my Red Sox MANY pennants.

Unlike Pedroia or Carl Yastrzemski, Williams did NOT play the game the right way!

 

[msgkings322]

I doubt that documentary will say anything about how "Teddy Ballgame"'s indifference to anything but hitting cost my Red Sox MANY pennants.

Unlike Pedroia or Carl Yastrzemski, Williams did NOT play the game the right way!

What could he have done differently that would have brought "MANY pennants" to Boston?

 

[Brahmsian]

Care about fielding even half as much as he did about hitting.

Pedroia goes hard after EVERY ball hit near him, Yaz played the caroms off the "Green Monster"
better than any Sox LF I have seen since moving to Boston, Fred Lynn and now Ellsbury and Victorino
use their speed to cover our largish CF and RF. And Dwight Evans never misplayed a ball hit his way
in addition to having a phenomenally strong, accurate, throwing arm.

Williams was at best an adequate defensive outfielder and never made any effort to improve in that area.

 

[msgkings322]

Care about fielding even half as much as he did about hitting.

Pedroia goes hard after EVERY ball hit near him, Yaz played the caroms off the "Green Monster"
better than any Sox LF I have seen since moving to Boston, Fred Lynn and now Ellsbury and Victorino
use their speed to cover our largish CF and RF. And Dwight Evans never misplayed a ball hit his way
in addition to having a phenomenally strong, accurate, throwing arm.

Williams was at best an adequate defensive outfielder and never made any effort to improve in that area.

M'kay....

So, if Williams had been a better fielder, the Red Sox would've won MANY more pennants.

Got it.

And since Miguel Cabrera is at best a so-so fielder, Detroit should DFA him?

 

[Brahmsian]

I might have gone a bit overboard in my previous post,

Tom Yawkey was at least as responsible for Williams in my team's long pennant drouth.

He, like Williams, underestimated the importance of good fielding to teams seeking titles.
Home run hitters could do now wrong in his book. I doubt he would ever have been interested in
someone like Mark Belanger or Dal Maxvill, who were both sensational glove men but rarely
hit homers. Never mind that both did their best hitting in clutch situations.

The post-Yawkey management has shown considerably more interest in the fielding abilities of players,
which goes a long way toward explaining their greater-than-Yawkey post-season success.

Cabrera I won't say anything about here. I don't know how much effort he puts into improving his fielding.
If he's putting out effort in that area...