NFT: Ted Williams and Fathers Day

I left this story on the "batting stance" thread but I figured I'd make it a separate thread given that the other thread is old and no one may see it.

Funny Ted Williams and father-son story...... Don Lee, pitched in the Major Leagues for about a dozen years with a number of teams and is the son of Thornton Lee, who was a twenty game winner, All Star and once accidentally hit Babe Ruth in the knee, almost ending Ruth's career and beat the Ruth-Gehrig Yankees three times in one season. Thornton and Ted Williams were good friends who would often fly fish in the off season. Don, as a habit, prior to starting a game would call his dad the night before the game and they would go through the oppositions lineup and Thornton would discuss how to pitch certain hitters.

Don, in his first year in the Majors is getting ready to start a game in Fenway against Ted Williams and the Red Sox. Ted is in his last year. Don calls his father the night before, and his father says, when discussing how to pitch Williams: "throw him only junk down and away and if you have to walk him every time, walk him but DO NOT throw him fastballs and definitely not inside". Williams gets up for the first time and Don, not listening to a thing his dad told him, proceeds to throw Williams three straight fastballs on the inside of the plate and Williams, who never takes the bat off his shoulders, strikes out on three pitches, Don noticing that Williams is visibly angered as he goes back to the dugout.

In the fourth inning, Williams is up again and Don figures he's going to continue to ignore his dads advice and throw fastballs inside. With the first fastball, Ted Williams parks it in the right field stands for a long home run and as he's rounding first base, he points at Don and says "I've hit a home run off of your old man, and now I've hit one off of you, YOU MOTHERFUCKER!!!" True story from the mouth of my patient Don Lee....Happy Fathers Day to every dad out there.