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Ted Williams Significant Home Runs

The Kid (Ted Williams) is one-of-only-five amongst the Five Hundred Home Runs Club who has hit all of his long balls with the same team. Here are details on a few of the significant home runs hit during his spectacular major league career.

"You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues." - Ted Williams

Ted Williams Significant Home Runs
Home Run #	Date	Pitcher	Team	Location
1	04-23-1939	Bud Thomas	Athletics	Boston
100	05-21-1942	Joe Krakauskas	Indians	Cleveland
200	04-29-1948	Bill McCahan	Athletics	Philadelphia
300	05-15-1951	Howie Judson	White Sox	Boston
400	07-17-1956	Tom Gorman	Athletics	Boston
500	06-17-1960	Wynn Hawkins	Indians	Cleveland
521	09-28-1960	Jack Fisher	Orioles	Boston
Home Run #	Date	Pitcher	Team	Location
Ted Williams Significant Home Runs

Did you know that Ted Williams was the ninth (9th) American League player to hit a home run during the final at-bat of his Major League career?

Home run number one (#1) and two-hundred (#200) were hit off the Athletics of Philadelphia, but did you know that number four-hundred (#400) was hit off the Athletics of Kansas City?

Ted Williams set the Red Sox record for most career home runs by a left handed hitter. The same record by a right handed hitter is held by Jim Rice with three-hundred eighty-two (382) and by a switch-hitter Reggie Smith with one-hundred forty-nine (149).

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