"The crude, rude Ted Williams and Gary Sheffields, also the product of personal pathologies.
"The commonality is altletic greatness, but the commonality ends there."
That crude, rude Ted Williams lost 5.5+ seasons to military service and did a lot of work on behalf of kids and children's causes. Yep, he had a temper and a thin skin; but he never disgraced himself or the game, in spite of a few ill-considered gestures to boo-birds for which he paid heavy out-of-pocket fines.
Much of the good work for kids was unpublicized; there was more to Ted than the Jimmy Fund.
As to pathologies, I'm not a licensed shrink so I'll withold further comment.
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