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Batting slump for the Splendid Splinter meant he was only batting .315

They are not hitting with their hands and wrist 😂 They are rotating into the ball with their hands very much following the power and momentum of their hip rotation. You also see that they(the best hitters) overwhelming drive with their bottom hand and do not push their top hand through the zone

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Great video. I was 11 in 1960 when he played his last game. Williams was one of my heroes. We could never get enough batting practice because of the logistical problems of pitching and htting a baseball, so we worked out a good training system. We'd take a wiffle bat and ball and pitch at full speed from 25-30 feet. If you've got a good arm the ball comes in pretty fast at that distance. And the ball does crazy things being full of holes and so light. We'd do that until it got easy and then switch to a wooden bat. It developed quick reactions, wrist speed and power, and the ability to track the ball very quickly. if you got so you could hit the ball consistently with the wood bat, the biggest problem when you got in a game was waiting on the pitch. The ball seemed to take forever to get to you from 60 feet.

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He was quite the physical specimen ...built for pro ball ...all around American hero ⚾️🏆👨‍✈️

Best advice to hitters is just relax

When Baseball was Baseball! ❤

My 6 yo became obsessed with hitting a couple weeks ago, when he connected on sweet spot with wiffle ball bat. So Loaded up on used baseballs and tennis balls , and he’s been at about an hour a day . Try not coach him much because want it to stay fun, and he’s got good natural mechanics , but showed him this video today , and likely will about 25 times more this year . It’s basically all you need to know about hitting a baseball .

San Diego born and raised baby! Go Ted aka The Kid. Interesting fact his Mexican-American uncle who played semi pro ball showed him as a young child. ⚾️💪🏻 🇺🇸🇲🇽

So cool.

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Williams sets the record at .406, one of sports' all time greatest records, still standing after over 80 years😳, right up there with Wilt's 100 and Pistol's averaging 44 at LSU. Just INCREDIBLE human achievements. But here's a bit of trivia; SIXTEEN YEARS AFTER SETTING THE RECORD at .406, Williams bats .388 to come in FOURTH after himself. Just unreal, and never talked about

When I was a kid in the 1970's & Baseball was my life, I wish I had the advantage of watching videos like this. Our little league & Babe Ruth coaches were always somebody's Dad who knew a little & usually was involve because his kid was on the team, so we didn't get the best coaching. My way of hitting was trying to copy my heroes like how Reggie Jackson looked like when hitting although I was moderately successful, I never knew the fine points broken down like in this video.

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as a Cleveland Indians fan, i've always like Ted Williams' answer whenever a reporter asked him "Who were the best pitchers and the toughest to hit pitchers you ever faced in your long career?" Ted Williams mlways answered "That's easy. The answer to BOTH questions is BOB FELLER."

I also helped that Williams had amazing eyesight. He could tell exactly where on the baseball he made contact. Once he did an experiment where he coated the barrel of his bat with pine tar. Then he would call the spot he made contact with, and it was compared to the mark on the ball. He would say things like, right across the seam...half inch below the seam...hit on top of the ball, etc. And the mark on the ball would confirm exactly what he said on each pitch. Williams also claimed that he could see the ball deform when he was making contact. Ted Williams was probably the most intense student of the game that ever lived. Williams was proof that if you, as a batter, become fundamentally sound, things like "launch angle" and "exit velocity" will take care of themselves.

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It's quick hands barrel to the ball. Then the hips ,leg power follow through look good..!!!!

I’m a former baseball player and now I play an ancient Irish sport called hurling. To score I have to self pitch the ball to myself and I’ve been watching his advice to improve my swing. It’s been really helpful actually. Especially when he talks about cutting up when you swing and how to chose the right bat. A hurling stick is made of ash and it’s about the size and weight of a baseball bat.

No helmets in the day...

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Sounds like John Wayne

As a baseball coach I couldn't possibly agree more with all the tips in this video

Amazing how modern his hitting was. Decades above everyone else.

*Babe Ruth was better*

What year?

The bats they used back then weighed like a thousand pounds and the handles were thick as trees.

He held his bat straight up at the plate he said it felt lighter in his book.He mentioned standing back from the plate which he never did? When you stand up on the plate it allows you to cover the whole plate keeping your hands in gives you the control and power to cover the whole plate, once you start reaching or casting your bat you lose your power. I just read his book from 1970 good tips from still the last hitter to bat .400!

He went 6 for 8 in the last doubleheader on the last day of the season in 1941. He raised his average from .3999 to .406. He won two triples crowns. He would murder the bullpen pitchers of today.

Too bad he didn't have all the amazing steroids we have today...his day, they only had speed and booze and booze is counterproductive when it come to hitting

I remember reading the sports section of the local paper when Ted Williams hit a home run in his last at bat before he retired. I was 15. I wish I had kept the article.

His head barely moves, It's like it's frozen.

Holy sh*t! I'm 43 years old and this is the greatest video I've ever seen! I literally can't believe I'm watching and listening to Ted F-ing Williams giving my 9 year old son hitting advice. I HATE technology...but it's moment like these I do appreciate it. The greatest hitter of all times still lives thanks to videos like these! Awesome great amazing unbelievable video.

One of my favorite all-time players who certainly has words of wisdom for batters thank you for sharing and God bless from Patrick

Watch 2:13 to see Williams bale out. He does not stride toward the pitcher.

Ted Williams did not step toward the pitcher. Williams baled out slightly.

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123 WAR / lifetime.482 OBP

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I have CLOSELY read the comments. QUESTION !!!! IF---IF TED WILLIAMS had those 'FIVE YEARS"of his PRIME YEARS PLAYING, which he spent FLYING in WORLD WAR ll and the KOREAN WAR , what would his CAREER and RECORDS be ????? BATTING AVG ? R B i 's,? HOME RUNS ? TOTAL BASES ?, M V P's ? ETC. ETC. NO ONE can even guess accurately. MANY baseball statistics and records would undergo dramatic revision.

Looks and sounds like this guy knows what he's doing. LOL!!! The Splendid Splinter...The greatest hitter ever!!!

Ted Williams did not step toward the pitcher. Williams bails out at 1:07.

Baseball Hitting GOAT 🐐! I watched hit .563 in HS 12 dingers .. moved on to Strong 💪🏻 Beach Dirt Bags! Rest is history!

Ted Williams and Tony Gwynn are the greatest pure hitters baseball has ever seen.

Ted was an exceptional hitter for his era but if he took that swing and that bat speed up against today's big league flame throwers, he'd probably to hit .100.