Editing Ted Williams (section)

==Post-retirement==
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|Name = Ted Williams
|Number = 9
|Team = Boston Red Sox
|Year = 1984
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After retirement from play, Williams helped Boston's new left fielder, [[Carl Yastrzemski]], in hitting, and was a regular visitor to the Red Sox' [[spring training]] camps from 1961 to 1966, where he worked as a special batting instructor. He served as executive assistant to Tom Yawkey (1961–65), then was named a team vice president (1965–68) upon his election to the Hall of Fame. He resumed his spring training instruction role with the club in 1978.

Beginning in 1961, he would spend summers at the Ted Williams Baseball Camp in [[Lakeville, Massachusetts]], which he had established in 1958 with his friend Al Cassidy and two other business partners. For eight summers and parts of others after that, he would give hitting clinics and talk baseball at the camp.<ref name="Montville19"/> It was not uncommon to find Williams fishing in the pond at the camp. The area now is owned by the town and a few of the buildings still stand. In the main lodge one can still see memorabilia from Williams' playing days.

Williams served as manager of the [[Washington Senators (1961–71)|Washington Senators]], from [[1969 Washington Senators season|1969]]–[[1971 Washington Senators season|1971]], then continued with the team when they became the [[Texas Rangers (baseball)|Texas Rangers]] after the 1971 season. Williams' best season as a manager was 1969 when he led the expansion Senators to an 86–76 record in the team's only winning season in Washington. He was chosen "Manager of the Year" after that season. Like many great players, Williams became impatient with ordinary athletes' abilities and attitudes, particularly those of pitchers, whom he admitted he never respected. Fellow manager [[Alvin Dark]] thought Williams "was a smart, fearless manager" who helped his hitters perform better. Williams' issue with Washington/Texas, according to Dark, was when the ownership traded away his third baseman and shortstop, making it difficult for the club to be as competitive.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dark |first1=Alvin |url=https://archive.org/details/whenindoubtfirem0000dark |title=When in Doubt, Fire the Manager: My Life and Times in Baseball |last2=Underwood |first2=John |publisher=[[E. P. Dutton]] |year=1980 |isbn=0525232648 |location=New York |pages=112–113 |url-access=registration}}</ref>

On the subject of pitchers, in Ted's autobiography written with [[John Underwood (sportswriter)|John Underwood]], Ted opines regarding [[Bob Lemon]] (a sinker-ball specialist) pitching for the Cleveland Indians around 1951: "I have to rate Lemon as one of the very best pitchers I ever faced. His ball was always moving, hard, sinking, fast-breaking. You could never really uhmmmph with Lemon."

Williams was much more successful in fishing. An avid and expert [[fly fishing|fly fisherman]] and deep-sea fisherman, he spent many summers after baseball fishing the [[Miramichi River]], in [[Miramichi, New Brunswick]]. Williams was named to the International Game Fish Association Hall of Fame in 2000.<ref>{{cite web |title=IGFA Hall of Fame Inductees |url=https://igfa.org/fishing-hall-of-fame-1/ |website=[[International Game Fish Association]]}}</ref> Williams, [[Jim Brown]], [[Cumberland Posey]], and [[Cal Hubbard]] are among the only athletes to be inducted into the Halls of Fame of more than one professional sport.{{Citation needed|date=March 2025}}<!--This statement as written was untrue; minimally, Wilt Chamberlain is in both the NBA (basketball) and IVA (volleyball) Halls of Fame--> Williams was also known as an accomplished hunter; he was fond of [[pigeon-shooting]] for sport in Fenway Park during his career, on one occasion drawing the ire of the [[MSPCA-Angell|Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals]].<ref>{{cite news |date=May 25, 1957 |title=Ted Williams Accused of Killing Pigeons |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=99k0AAAAIBAJ&sjid=8kMDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6394,2747351 |newspaper=[[Rome News-Tribune]] |page=5 |via=[[Google News Archive]] |agency=[[International News Service]]}}</ref>

Williams reached an extensive deal with [[Sears, Roebuck and Company|Sears]], lending his name and talent toward marketing, developing, and endorsing a line of in-house sports equipment—such as the "Ted Williams" edition Gamefisher aluminum boat and 7.5&nbsp;hp "Ted Williams" edition motor, as well as fishing, hunting, and baseball equipment. Williams continued his involvement in the Jimmy Fund, later losing a brother to leukemia, and spending much of his spare time, effort, and money in support of the cancer organization.

In his later years, Williams became a fixture at autograph shows and card shows after his son (by his third wife), [[John Henry Williams (baseball)|John Henry Williams]], took control of his career, becoming his de facto manager. The younger Williams provided structure to his father's business affairs, exposed forgeries that were flooding the memorabilia market, and rationed his father's public appearances and memorabilia signings to maximize their earnings.

One of Williams' final, and most memorable, public appearances was at the [[1999 Major League Baseball All-Star Game|1999 All-Star Game]] in Boston. Able to walk only a short distance, Williams was brought to the pitcher's mound in a golf cart. He proudly waved his cap to the crowd—a gesture he had never done as a player. Fans responded with a standing ovation that lasted several minutes. At the pitcher's mound he was surrounded by players from both teams, including fellow Red Sox player [[Nomar Garciaparra]], and was assisted by [[Tony Gwynn]] in throwing out the first pitch of that year's All-Star Game. Later in the year, he was among the members of the [[Major League Baseball All-Century Team]] introduced to the crowd at [[Turner Field]] in Atlanta prior to Game 2 of the [[1999 World Series|World Series]].