Yea, I actually had tears in my eyes. And those two were both from San Diego basically. It's like Williams passed the torch to Gwynn so to speak. Gwynn playing for the "Padres" and Ted Williams whose mother is Mexican/Spanish. I mean you can't make this stuff up.
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I am a long time Padres fan. I consider myself fortunate that in 2007 I was at the Hall of Fame induction ceremony for Tony Gwynn and Cal Ripken Jr. Both were class acts - great players on the field and great people off the field as well. I have the highest respect for Cal and wish he could have played for my Padres.
There goes the greatest hitter to ever play the game. The Splendid Splinter embodies everything great about the America he lived in. Sacrifice, skill, humility, class, and pride in ones country above all else. God bless Teddy Ballgame.
He probably should have won 7 MVP awards, and had he not missed nearly 5 seasons, he would have deserved even more, around 10 even. The years he should have won were 1941, 1942, 1947, 1951, 1954, and most likely would have deserved all three from 1943-1945. He’s my favorite player of all-time.
Hey cam Thanks for doing a vid on my fav player ever! One thing I noticed: you didn’t say at any point in the vid in _____ in such and such year Ted Williams took his game TO THE NEXT LEVEL.” That’s my favorite part of your vids lol
If you wouldn't mind please tell me where you found that information, because on the official baseball Hall of Fame website they have it listed at 20/10 in this article: baseballhall.org/discover/inside-pitch/ted-williams-crash-lands-in-Korea#:~:text=He%20trained%20as%20an%20aviator,commission%20on%20May%202%2C%201944.
Tony Gwynn Sr. before Tony Gwynn ever Tony Gwynn'd. You ever hear Maddux talk about his hatred of Gwynn? That's how I imagine old school pitchers talked about Teddy here.
Yo com'on Teddy Ballgame " there goes the greatest hitter that ever lived" that's fuckin nuts ... and you fuckin know he heard that on the street. Damn that must've felt amazing
He's certainly the most decorated Hall of Fame baseball player, militarily speaking. As a hitter, only Ty Cobb, Joe Jackson, Josh Gibson, Hank Aaron, and Willie Mays are in the same conversation.
Yea Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio, Willie Mays, Spahn, and Stan Musial should have been regarded as national treasures. That is what Brazil did with the soccer player Pele.' Brazil didn't allow him to play for football clubs in Europe. Likewise, I wish they didn't miss time due to war. Their statistics would even be greater. Ted never had 200 hits in a season, because they walked him so much (little protection, except for the few years with Foxx). Yea they were trying to get Joe DiMaggio to play with his brother Dom on the Red Sox. How about Warren Spahn (dude was legendary even in his forties)!!
Technically not yet but I did do one with my friend Hatbilly. Until I get around to him you can search Meet the Robinsons cam23 and it should pop up. We covered both Brooks and Frank!
The narrator left out an important detail in referencing Ted's 1954 season. 2 rule changes came about as a result: 1) As mentioned, Ted had the highest batting average in the A.L. that year but didn't get credit for the batting title because he was 14 at bats shy of the required amount of at bats to qualify. At that time the requirement was for a player to reach at least 400 at bats to qualify. They understood that a player should be an everyday regular player to qualify, I mean you don't award a batting title to some guy who went 10 for 20 during the year. Yes he batted .500 but it's way too small a sample size. So it needs to be a regular starting player. What they hadn't considered was someone like Ted who walked way more than anyone else in the league. Yes Ted had fewer than 400 at bats but he had well over 500 plate appearances because of the walks. He clearly was a regular everyday player. So eventually they changed the rule to what it is now, where it is based on plate appearances instead of at bats. Ted caused that change. 2) Another rule change that came out of that was something that wound up helping Tony Gwynn get a batting title in 1996. The rules now state that you can be short of the plate appearances requirement and still qualify only if the following is true - if the difference between a batter's number of plate appearances and the required number is such that even if the batter had gotten those missing at bats - and made outs in all of them - if his adjusted average still would have been the highest in the league then he wins the title. This also applies to leading in on base % and slugging %. In 1996 Gwynn was short of the required plate appearances but his average was so much higher than anyone else that even his "adjusted" average was the highest in the league.
I appreciate the info, but in the video I did mention he fell 14 at-bats short of qualifying for the batting title. I didn't go into detail about the rule change that year but I also don't mention every single thing I find in my research. Thank you for the feedback!
I do have to say as a die hard Red Sox and also Williams fan if Lou Gehrig didn’t die so young of the disease Bering his name no one would have surpassed his numbers and I love the Red Sox ! That’s saying something .
Yo I was trying to explain to this guy on another baseball vid how insane Prime Ted Williams was and I'm a Yankee fan... dude was hearing none of it he was all pitching faster Pujols better training 🤬🤬🤬🤬 it's a shame dude could've learned something. People who are sent in their ways though... ouch
It was actually the contrary, he gritted his teeth and said in an interview during his later years that it stole a portion of his career. Perhaps his answer changed over time but all interviews I watched said that he was not happy at all about it
The stat was stating after Ted in 1949 only Bagwell has done it since then. Ronald Acuña was the closest at 149 outside of Jeff. And A-Rod did not score 150, 143 was his career high
@@Cam23 damn you’re right - I had this memory of Arod scoring 150 runs one year (turns out it was 2007), but it was RBI (156) not runs. That makes the Teddy stat even cooler. Thank you for correcting me!
Great video Cam! Love your videos🙂⚾... Greatest hitter ever?.... perhaps and if he is then there is little argument... He kind of reminds me of Aaron, in how he is remembered in terms of being on greatest player ever lists, usually it's Willie Mays Bonds (for some) and Ruth...but Williams bridges the era before integration and plays after Robinson broke the color barrier.... It's a great conversation...I think it's 1.Aaron 2. Mays 3. Ruth 4.T. Williams 5. Mantle 6. S. Musial 7. Cobb this list is no particular order but definitely a good starting point. Again, great video
He was heating it up to get rid of moisture and making the handle easier to grip. Shaving a bat like what you’re thinking of typically involves the end cap and that’s what can increase pop, not the handle and knob
My life is finally complete and I can die peacefully
Hahahaahh. Are you the one been asking for ted willians for months? Because you are my favorite human being
@@DillDough-dn4eb yes brotha I am
Him coming on the field at fenway with Tony Gwynn next to him at the All Star game was peak baseball viewing
Yea, I actually had tears in my eyes. And those two were both from San Diego basically. It's like Williams passed the torch to Gwynn so to speak. Gwynn playing for the "Padres" and Ted Williams whose mother is Mexican/Spanish. I mean you can't make this stuff up.
It's a crime that Ted Williams only won 2 MVPs!
Willie Mays also was robbed of a couple of MVPS.
Cam 23 is always on the next level!
100% agree!!👍
Thank you very much! Wouldn’t be able to take it to the next level without everyone’s support of the series 😎
It wasn’t for his military service Ted Williams would def be 3,000 hitter.
And 600 home runs (maybe even 700)
@@wardsquidcirca1999easily
And that what makes him stand out as one of the greatest of all time
Definitely!
And over 600 home runs
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That means a lot, thank you for watching!
Ted Williams was a geat American. The best, this is coming from an Orioles fan.
Agreed. Go O’s!
O's fans are cool. Yanks fans on the other hand are nothing but galoots, usually drunken (Yes,, I've been there and seen them.)
I am a long time Padres fan. I consider myself fortunate that in 2007 I was at the Hall of Fame induction ceremony for Tony Gwynn and Cal Ripken Jr. Both were class acts - great players on the field and great people off the field as well. I have the highest respect for Cal and wish he could have played for my Padres.
I love Williams' HOF induction speech! He was so awkward and nervous! Great man, and greatest hitter who ever lived. ❤
Can you do a video on Willie Mays, Cam23
There goes the greatest hitter to ever play the game.
The Splendid Splinter embodies everything great about the America he lived in. Sacrifice, skill, humility, class, and pride in ones country above all else. God bless Teddy Ballgame.
Can we do a video on Josh Gibson or Willie Mays!
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Without missing for military service, best player of all time wouldn't be a debate
Thank you so much! I've been eagerly awaiting this one!👍⚾️
New video idea “the insane consistency, talent, and video quality of Cam23”
😂 😂 I love it!
George Brett came close to 400 at 390 in 1980. Perhaps we need a Brett episode 😊
Brett won Batting titles in the three decades. 70's, 80's & 90's! Stud!
Great job, Kid. You did it again. Always a fan. 🤘
I appreciate you! 🤘
Excellent analysis and tribute, Blessings from San Juan 🇵🇷 Puerto Rico.
Thank you for watching!
Cams videos are so good bro🔥🔥🔥
Sergio you are the man thank you for the kind words!
Ruth💪⚾️
Thank you for funally doung Todd Williams, he's my favorite player!
Please do the sandman himself: Mariano Rivera
Fantastic as always, thank you. Stan Musial. Willie Mays. Barry Bonds. That’s my current wish list. So many more to follow. Keep doing great things!
He probably should have won 7 MVP awards, and had he not missed nearly 5 seasons, he would have deserved even more, around 10 even. The years he should have won were 1941, 1942, 1947, 1951, 1954, and most likely would have deserved all three from 1943-1945. He’s my favorite player of all-time.
Alright I’ll admit that’s a really good one but can you please do will Clark or Willie mays
You should do Steve Carlton nect
I’m a diehard Yankees fan and I proudly call Ted one of my all favorite players!
Hey can you do the Babe on your channel
Do ty Cobb next
yea, thatd be an awesome one
Can you do Willie mays and/or Joe Carter
i love the way this guy says the next level
The climax of the vid!
Can you do Will Clark next?
Hey cam Thanks for doing a vid on my fav player ever! One thing I noticed: you didn’t say at any point in the vid in _____ in such and such year Ted Williams took his game TO THE NEXT LEVEL.” That’s my favorite part of your vids lol
Except I did 😉 go to 2:53 The NEXT Level
@@Cam23you did I totally missed it my bad😂
@@patrickgoodman4576 no worries 😂
George Brett
The craziest thing in this video may have been the 296.2 IP from Feller in `39.
Seriously the greatest every day ballplayer who has ever lived. No one on earth compares.
Could you do a vid on some dead ball era guys…..Tris Speaker, Cobb, Walter Johnson, etc
Ted Williams had 20/20 vision. He said himself that the 20/10 narrative was an urban legend.
If you wouldn't mind please tell me where you found that information, because on the official baseball Hall of Fame website they have it listed at 20/10 in this article: baseballhall.org/discover/inside-pitch/ted-williams-crash-lands-in-Korea#:~:text=He%20trained%20as%20an%20aviator,commission%20on%20May%202%2C%201944.
If ted can be here then ernie banks can too you gotta do ernie banks!
He WAS, The Greatest Pure Hitter EVER. No argument.
Juan Gonzalez
Great choice but I’m going to pester you again for Shawn Green or Steve Garvey.
Tony Gwynn Sr. before Tony Gwynn ever Tony Gwynn'd. You ever hear Maddux talk about his hatred of Gwynn? That's how I imagine old school pitchers talked about Teddy here.
Have you done Rod Carew?
Cam 23 the GOAT
Yo com'on Teddy Ballgame " there goes the greatest hitter that ever lived" that's fuckin nuts ... and you fuckin know he heard that on the street. Damn that must've felt amazing
Please do Mickey Mantle
The prime of Mike piazza or Eddie Murray
I can’t imagine what his statistics would be if he didn’t miss 5 years to military service.
finally, my favorite player of all time, and im an angels fan.
Do Matt Cain he through a perfect game in one three World Series that might be a good one
He's certainly the most decorated Hall of Fame baseball player, militarily speaking. As a hitter, only Ty Cobb, Joe Jackson, Josh Gibson, Hank Aaron, and Willie Mays are in the same conversation.
Turkey Stearns, Oscar Charles, and Tony Gwynn as well.
Yea Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio, Willie Mays, Spahn, and Stan Musial should have been regarded as national treasures. That is what Brazil did with the soccer player Pele.' Brazil didn't allow him to play for football clubs in Europe. Likewise, I wish they didn't miss time due to war. Their statistics would even be greater. Ted never had 200 hits in a season, because they walked him so much (little protection, except for the few years with Foxx). Yea they were trying to get Joe DiMaggio to play with his brother Dom on the Red Sox. How about Warren Spahn (dude was legendary even in his forties)!!
Ted should have won at least 5 MVPS
Ted should have won at least 5 MVPS
This is geordiegunner had to start everything as I couldn't remember then video was top notch.
Yaz would be a cool one as a Sox fan
Imagine not voting for Ted Williams to be in the hall of fame?
Damn. Could’ve easily had 5 or 6 MVPs
Babe wake up cam23 FINALLY dropped the Ted Williams insane prime video!
Babe left 3 years ago, God damnit everything reminds me of her 😢
I would like to suggest a Frank Robinson video unless you've already done it of course lol
Technically not yet but I did do one with my friend Hatbilly. Until I get around to him you can search Meet the Robinsons cam23 and it should pop up. We covered both Brooks and Frank!
That last MVP DiMaggio won was a joke.
The narrator left out an important detail in referencing Ted's 1954 season. 2 rule changes came about as a result:
1) As mentioned, Ted had the highest batting average in the A.L. that year but didn't get credit for the batting title because he was 14 at bats shy of the required amount of at bats to qualify. At that time the requirement was for a player to reach at least 400 at bats to qualify. They understood that a player should be an everyday regular player to qualify, I mean you don't award a batting title to some guy who went 10 for 20 during the year. Yes he batted .500 but it's way too small a sample size. So it needs to be a regular starting player. What they hadn't considered was someone like Ted who walked way more than anyone else in the league. Yes Ted had fewer than 400 at bats but he had well over 500 plate appearances because of the walks. He clearly was a regular everyday player. So eventually they changed the rule to what it is now, where it is based on plate appearances instead of at bats. Ted caused that change.
2) Another rule change that came out of that was something that wound up helping Tony Gwynn get a batting title in 1996. The rules now state that you can be short of the plate appearances requirement and still qualify only if the following is true - if the difference between a batter's number of plate appearances and the required number is such that even if the batter had gotten those missing at bats - and made outs in all of them - if his adjusted average still would have been the highest in the league then he wins the title. This also applies to leading in on base % and slugging %. In 1996 Gwynn was short of the required plate appearances but his average was so much higher than anyone else that even his "adjusted" average was the highest in the league.
I appreciate the info, but in the video I did mention he fell 14 at-bats short of qualifying for the batting title. I didn't go into detail about the rule change that year but I also don't mention every single thing I find in my research. Thank you for the feedback!
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I wonder what his hitting stats was in the navy leagues I bet he went crazy
Me too! Probably batted .500 or something crazy like that 😂
Great player one my favorites
Or how about mel otto
Ott
gotta do lou gehrig
Tell everyone how, as a military pilot Ted could see the enemy 30 seconds before anyone else he was flying with....
In wonder if there's a guy named Bill Teddy
The insanely late prime of Luis Gonzalez.
We need Nomar Garciaparra next. At his peak, he was better than Jeter, and was a rare leadoff hitter who'd consistently get 100 RBIs a season.
He only got 100 rbis in 4 seasons...
He unfortunately spent far to much of his time not being on the field...his numbers during those batting title years are impressive
MANNY RAMIREZ .. GARY SHEFFIELD .. JUAN GONZALEZ .. RAFAEL PALMEIRO ..
Willie Mays
That war messed up alot of good careers & lives
Agreed why get involved in ww2?
Dude was a real life John Wayne
Only guy who rivals bonds. Didnt think youd make this one
@kenw2225 lmao, Bonds is a juiced steroid head.
Reggie Jackson soon!
910 consecutive plate appearances huh, Prime Bonds can do it .
I do have to say as a die hard Red Sox and also Williams fan if Lou Gehrig didn’t die so young of the disease Bering his name no one would have surpassed his numbers and I love the Red Sox ! That’s saying something .
All you need to know is Williams hit for a much higher average during DiMaggios hit streak than Joe did.
Do Matt cain
Yo I was trying to explain to this guy on another baseball vid how insane Prime Ted Williams was and I'm a Yankee fan... dude was hearing none of it he was all pitching faster Pujols better training 🤬🤬🤬🤬 it's a shame dude could've learned something. People who are sent in their ways though... ouch
Please do Alex Rodriguez
Important note. Ted enjoyed his military service and doesn't care if it took away from his baseball career.
It was actually the contrary, he gritted his teeth and said in an interview during his later years that it stole a portion of his career. Perhaps his answer changed over time but all interviews I watched said that he was not happy at all about it
@@Cam23 Yeap he called politicians of his day “gutless”
There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived
Never saw Ruth or Mantle in a war !!!!!
Do the GOAT…… Stan.
So who will you all obsess about who to do next?
Goat
Teddy ballgame last to hit .400 may never happen again? ⚾️
Bagwell isn’t the only one to score 150 runs - Arod has done it, for example.
Alot of players have done it....billy williams scored 192 in 1894
The stat was stating after Ted in 1949 only Bagwell has done it since then. Ronald Acuña was the closest at 149 outside of Jeff. And A-Rod did not score 150, 143 was his career high
@@Cam23 damn you’re right - I had this memory of Arod scoring 150 runs one year (turns out it was 2007), but it was RBI (156) not runs. That makes the Teddy stat even cooler. Thank you for correcting me!
@@unhpsychology3909 No worries! I'm prone to misremember stats too, it happens
Great video Cam! Love your videos🙂⚾... Greatest hitter ever?.... perhaps and if he is then there is little argument... He kind of reminds me of Aaron, in how he is remembered in terms of being on greatest player ever lists, usually it's Willie Mays Bonds (for some) and Ruth...but Williams bridges the era before integration and plays after Robinson broke the color barrier....
It's a great conversation...I think it's 1.Aaron 2. Mays 3. Ruth 4.T. Williams 5. Mantle 6. S. Musial 7. Cobb this list is no particular order but definitely a good starting point. Again, great video
Barry Larkin
It looked like he was sanding the bat. Isn't that shaving a bat?
He was heating it up to get rid of moisture and making the handle easier to grip. Shaving a bat like what you’re thinking of typically involves the end cap and that’s what can increase pop, not the handle and knob
Ted Williams was the best hitter ever
Tony Gwynns strike shorten batting tittle was garbage
Great video
Teddy Ball Game 😏 .406 👀
They don’t mention that he was half Mexican
Do CHIPPER JONES!!!!!!!!
He ain't coming back Jimmy.
Williams or Musial
A .553 OBP Stop breaking the game Teddy