"All I want out of life, is that when I walk down the street folks will say, 'There goes the greatest hitter that ever lived,'" Ted Williams, 1939.
Never short on confidence, talent or ability, this quote sums up Williams as a ballplayer as well as any other. He retired with a .344 career batting average and a 39-0 record (with a few crash landings in the mix) as a Marine aviator in the Korean War. Of course, given his propensity for salty language and the lack of digital recorders back then, it’s not known if he spiced that up his self-epitaph with a few unprintable adjectives.
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