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He was so obsessed, so compulsive about hitting, studying batting, weighing his bat! Nobody else was heating their bats to remove any excess moisture that accumulated on the bat. NICK DAVIS podcast excerpt: “Ted Williams was a man whose ambition was to be known as ‘The Greatest Hitter Who Ever Lived.’ Whether or not he succeeded at that is open to discussion and debate. It is extremely well done, compacting the life of one of sports’ most accomplished, combative, and competitive characters into a mesmerizing hour.
If you love baseball as much as I do, there will be moments in Nick Davis’s new documentary, Ted Williams: “The Greatest Hitter Who Ever Lived,” that will choke you up and maybe even bring a tear to at least one eye. I never met Ted Williams, but I did have a book I wrote, Stadium For Rent, enshrined in the Ted Williams Hitters Hall of Fame at Tropicana Field here in St. I’m a lifelong baseball fan whose heroes were Mickey Mantle of the Yankees and Tom Seaver of the Mets. Media interview with Nick Davis by clicking on the video player above! Ted Williams plaque at National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY.