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Boston's Top 10 All-Star Game Moments #2: Ted Williams Walk-Off
The Red Sox have had their share of superstars over the years, but it's possible that none of them compare to Ted Williams. The Splendid Splinter finished his career with 125 WAR over 19 seasons, despite missing time to join the war efforts in World War II and the war in Korea. In a career full of...
An Intimate Look At Ted Williams Through 'The Lost Interview'
Lost Interview, along with DK Productions, Inc., was courteous enough to overnight us an exclusive copy of The Lost Interview of The Great Ted Williams -- never before seen footage of a 1997 interview featuring Ted Williams (conducted by Bob Lobel). We here at Over The Monster want to use this...
Bloody Sox Laundry - 9/9/09
Happy Baseball Day!!! @MLB Less than 2 hours till Baseball Day - 9/9/9 - and the best debate ever by a whole fan base. Watch for MLB.com and then all 30 club sites. In other news: Ortiz's homer ties Frank Thomas for most by DH - Yahoo! Sports Coolie-O. Of course, The Big Hurt hit a ton as a first...
Graph of the Afternoon: Ruth, Gehrig, Williams, Aaron, Musial
I'm very, very excited by what we can do now with Sean Smith's updated WAR database. The top 300 player index hasn't been updated yet, but I don't need the index to know who 5 of the best players of all time were. For our first look into the golden age of baseball, I picked the top 5 players...
Ted Williams vs. Barry Bonds
Disclaimer: I had no intention of taking this angle, but after about 400 words noticed it was a worthwhile one. I was toying around in SQL, looking at single season high in certain statistics and threw in the formula for OPS. I set the at-bats criteria a little lower than I usually do because I...
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