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Ted Williams' Hit List: The Ultimate Ranking of Baseball's Greatest Hitters by the Last Man to Bat .400 Kindle Edition

by Ted Williams (Author), Jim Prime (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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One of baseball's all-time great hitters ranks his 25 best hitters of all time, along with naming the almost-made-its and the should-have-beens. Using statistics and his personal expertise, Williams provides insight not only into the actual facts of these players' careers but their discipline and devotion to the game.

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When the master speaks, the prudent listen. Arguably the greatest hitter since Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, never one to couch opinions, creates a system for ranking the best hitters of all time in this gregarious volume that is ripe with personal anecdote, observation, and bias. Not only is the list itself enticing and convincingly argued--Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmy Foxx, and Joe DiMaggio form the heart of his order--so are most of the shots he takes at some pretty big names. Given Williams's position on defense, a few of his convictions may seem out of left field, but if the gospel according to Ted deems Carl Yastrzemski, George Brett, Pete Rose, and Reggie Jackson underachievers, so be it. And his analyses of current artists with a bat such as Frank Thomas, Ken Griffey Jr., Tony Gwynn, and Mike Piazza are as solid as line drives up the middle.

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No one is better qualified to choose baseball's greatest batters than Williams, the last major leaguer to hit over .400. With freelance writer Prime, he presents his list of the top 20, with also-rans and potential future candidates. He begins by repeating his often-quoted assertion that "Hitting a baseball is the single most difficult thing to do in sport" and then presents his views on the five attributes needed to become a great hitter: intelligence, courage, eyesight, power and timing. To him the ultimate statistic is production, according to which Williams ranks second only to Babe Ruth in the history of the game. The list itself contains few surprises, and there seems little to argue with in his choices, although fans of Reggie Jackson and Rod Carew will be disappointed. Photos.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product details

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01JH6I1YE
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Goodreads Press (July 31, 2016)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 31, 2016
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 18845 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 210 pages

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- #151 in Baseball Statistics
- #862 in Baseball History
- #6,348 in Baseball (Books)

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Jim Prime is the author of more than twenty books. He has coauthored baseball books with Ted Williams and Bill "Spaceman" Lee and a hockey book, How Hockey Explains Canada, with Paul Henderson. He lives in the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia with his wife Glenna.
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Chris Strangeman (cstrange@indiana.edu)

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Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 1998

Despite Ted Williams' personal choice of Babe Ruth as the greatest hitter of all time, followed by Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, and Rogers Hornsby, this reviewer will never be convinced that Williams is anything but the greatest himself. Although I agree with the placement of almost all of his picks, though I do question Chuck Klein's inclusion in this list instead of such notables as Napoleon Lajoie and Honus Wagner, Williams falls short in making the argument that baseball must be looked on as a continuum so that all statistics should be looked at as comparable. With this argument, the gaudy averages and totals of the mid and late 1920s and 1930s will always come out on top, and, hence, Ruth, Gehrig, Foxx, and Hornsby will too. Al Simmons will also be given a ranking. With due respect to these players, who do deserve their reputations as all-time greats, in my opinion, league dominance should be rated more highly than sheer numbers. With this rating, players like Wagner and Lajoie would hold a greater chance of making this list, despite poor power numbers in comparison to later-day players. Other than this problem with his argument, fans of baseball and baseball statistics should be able to relax and enjoy Williams' _Hit List_ before adding it to their arsenal in the on-going battle of who was the greatest hitter ever.

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