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Originally Posted by nanwynnfan
"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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Fine, but my point wasn't an argument to prove that Ted Williams was a jerk, it was to establish that athletic heroes are not going to all have heroic personalities. Bonds has done charity work as well but that fails to excuse his contemptuous treatment of others. Ted Williams, whatever else he was, was not Stan Musial.