Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Ted Williams Boston Red Sox

Ted Williams Boston Red SoxDescription: Ted Williams BaseBall Digest May 1949 raw.jpg. An image of Major League Baseball hall of famer Ted Williams.

Date: May 1949(1949-05). Source: Baseball Digest, back cover, May 1949 issue. Author: unknown.

On September 28, 1960, at Boston’s Fenway Park, the Boston Red Sox's Ted Williams hits a home run in the last at-bat of his 21-year career.
Also on this day in 1941, Ted Williams plays a double-header against the Philadelphia Athletics on the last day of the regular season and gets six hits in eight at bats, to boost his batting average to .406, becoming the last player to hit .400.

Permission: This work is in the public domain because it was published in the United States between 1923 and 1963 with a copyright notice, and its copyright was not renewed.

Baseball Digest: This image or file was extracted from an issue of Baseball Digest published before January 1, 1964. A search of the following sources: reveals no renewals for the title "Baseball Digest" within the required period for filing. Additionally, independent research by the Library of the University of Pennsylvania, "First copyright renewals for periodicals", confirms the absence of filed renewals.

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