Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows,” as Shakespeare wrote in “The Tempest.” For American heroes John Glenn and Ted Williams, the “misery,” danger and tension of flying combat missions ...

he will have played fewer games for the Angels than Ted Williams did around his World War II military service. Williams, the Boston Red Sox legend and Hall of Famer, was completing his rookie ...

Ted Williams wanted to be known as the greatest ... Williams would have been near the top of every career category if military service hadn't intervened. And a more confident man never entered ...

If there was a baseball player who rivaled DiMaggio in his day, it was undoubtedly Ted Williams, the spectacular hitter who played for the Boston Red Sox, then the Yankees fiercest rival.

Ted Williams entered the exalted circle of 400 home run hitters at Fenway Park last night to break up a scoreless pitching battle between Bob Porterfield and Tommy Gorman. The Red Sox slugger ...