Every service member leaves the military eventually. Military spouses are making a go of their dream jobs across a wide range of fields. [147] While the absences in the Marine Corps took almost five years out of his baseball career, he never publicly complained about the time devoted to service in the Marine Corps. In the first inning, Williams caught a line drive by Ralph Kiner, slamming into the Comiskey Park scoreboard and breaking his left arm. While in the Pacific Coast League in 1936, Williams met future teammates and friends Dom DiMaggio and Bobby Doerr, who were on the Pacific Coast League's San Francisco Seals. As good a Marine as he was a ballplayer. While he never saw combat during WWII, the experience prepared him for his stint as a Marine pilot during the Korean War. When news of Williams successful appeal to the draft board leaked to newspapers, however, the public didnt take it well. One of Ted Williams's final, and most memorable, public appearances was at the 1999 All-Star Game in Boston. By Jonathan Mayo. Williams's aloof attitude led the writer John Updike to observe wryly that "Gods do not answer letters."[137]. For more stories, subscribe here and visit us on Facebook: Whether they produced battlefield images of the dead or daguerreotype portraits of common soldiers, []. The obvious answer was to recall inactive aviators to service. In the 11th inning, Williams's prediction came true, as he hit a big blast to help the Red Sox win. [144] The Fund recently stated that "Williams would travel everywhere and anywhere, no strings or paychecks attached, to support the cause His name is synonymous with our battle against all forms of cancer."[144]. You can too, by following these critical steps. For eight summers and parts of others after that, he would give hitting clinics and talk baseball at the camp. He served until 1946 in the Reserve Aviation Unit. The 42 season kicked off as usual that spring, but the entire country had shifted into wartime readiness. This bout of illness influenced his decision to leave the Marines in 1953. The pride of the Red Sox was preparing to enter spring training for the 1952 season when the call came on January 9, catching him completely off guard. They quickly became good friends, and Williams flew half his missions as Glenn's wingman. Williams was also named the Red Soxs MVP in 1946 and 49. Your friend, Douglas MacArthur. In later life the famed former ballplayer developed heart disease. [110], In 1951, Williams "struggled" to hit .318, with his elbow still hurting. [10], Williams's paternal ancestors were a mix of Welsh, English, and Irish. During his career, some sportswriters also criticized aspects of Williams's baseball performance, including what they viewed as his lackadaisical fielding and lack of clutch hitting. You could never really uhmmmph with Lemon. Gibson died early in 1947 and thus never played in the majors; and Paige's brief major league stint came long past his prime as a player. )[71], Quaker Oats stopped sponsoring Williams, and Williams, who previously had eaten Quaker products "all the time", never "[ate] one since" the company stopped sponsoring him. The agreement sent the future Hall of Famer to the Red Sox in exchange for two major leaguers and two minor leaguers. I love to hit. Collins had kept in touch with his Padres counterpart, Frank Shellenback, regarding Williams future, and the two struck a deal that December. Both were inside-the-park home runs, with the second traveling an estimated 500 feet (150m) on the fly to a 512-foot (156m) center field fence. Then at the pinnacle of his prime, Williams left Boston to train and serve as a fighter pilot in World War II, missing three full years of baseball, making his achievements all the more remarkable. Williams served as the wingman for a young pilot named John Glenn. And the 20-plus years you've spent in uniform mean you have a highly sought-after skill set in the civilian world. Williams crash-landed his Navy F9F Panther jet following a mission in Korea. After leaving the military, Williams went straight back to playing baseball. Make a gift today to help ensure that fans around the world can have online access to the Museum collections and Library archive. It didn't take long for Williams to become a sensation, coming in second for MVP in his first year. a 2-game series against them (last regular-season games for both teams),[98] the Red Sox lost both of those games. This was the only game which featured both Williams and Lou Gehrig playing against one another. Shettle, Jr. Williams poses with other outstanding athletes who are training personnel at stations in the Pensacola area on August 1, 1944. July 5, 2002. On May 21, Williams passed Chuck Klein for 10th place, on May 25 Williams passed Hornsby for ninth place, and on July 5 Williams passed Al Simmons for eighth place all-time in career home runs. Williams was required to interrupt his baseball career in 1943 to serve three years in the United States Navy and Marine Corps during World War II. [135], When Pumpsie Green became the first black player on the Red Soxthe last major league team to integratein 1959, Williams openly welcomed Green. At the time of his retirement, Williams ranked third all-time in home runs (behind Babe Ruth and Jimmie Foxx), seventh in RBIs (after Ruth, Cap Anson, Lou Gehrig, Ty Cobb, Foxx, and Mel Ott), and seventh in batting average (behind Cobb, Rogers Hornsby, Shoeless Joe Jackson, Lefty O'Doul, Ed Delahanty and Tris Speaker). [159], Williams had a strong respect for General Douglas MacArthur, referring to him as his "idol". There are several paths to success if you're getting out or thinking about getting out of the military after just one tour. [37][111] Despite his lower-than-usual production at bat, Williams made the All-Star team. [74] In the game, Williams hit a 425-foot home run to help give the American League All-Stars a 98 win. from the crowd by making an appearance from the dugout. Williams declined, and he suggested that Pinky Higgins, who had previously played on the 1946 Red Sox team as the third baseman, become the manager of the team. "[161], Politically, Williams was a Republican,[162] and was described by one biographer as, "to the right of Attila the Hun" except when it came to Civil Rights. [171], In Ted Williams: The Biography of an American Hero, author Leigh Montville claims that the family cryonics pact was a practice Ted Williams autograph on a plain piece of paper, around which the agreement had later been hand written. He also led the league in walks, another rookie record. Williams was named to the International Game Fish Association Hall of Fame in 2000. Posted: Friday July 05, 2002 1:00 PM. Williams .406 average earned him the first of six batting championships and remains the highest single-season average in Red Sox history. src="https://www.facebook.com/tr?id=674090812743125&ev=PageView&noscript=1"/>. Williams was born in San Diego on August 30, 1918,[4] and named Theodore Samuel Williams after former president Theodore Roosevelt as well as his father, Samuel Stuart Williams. His command of the gull-winged fighter was such that NAS Pensacola retained him to teach other young Navy and Marine Corps pilots to fly the Corsair. When he judged the jet was about to stall, he set it down as gingerly as possible. He was also a decorated Marine Corps fighter pilot, and is said to have scored an impressive total of seven confirmed kills in his time in service. Williams maintained this policy up to and including his swan song in 1960. These memorable displays range from Ted Williams's days in the military through his professional playing career. At nineteen years old, Williams was taken on by the Boston Red Sox. Skills fostered in the military make you uniquely qualified for entry-level management positions. By the end of the 1951 season, Williams had been named to nine All-Star Games and had won two AL Most Valuable Player Awards. While that is exactly what the more cynical sportswriters and fans assumed he would do, Williams envisioned serving the country in a more meaningful capacity. [31], While in Minnesota, Williams quickly became the team's star. [37] Williams also caused a controversy in mid-August when he called his salary "peanuts", along with saying he hated the city of Boston and reporters, leading reporters to lash back at him, saying that he should be traded. [72] He was the third Red Sox player to hit 100 home runs with the team, following his teammates Jimmie Foxx and Joe Cronin. Like his famous namesake, Williams loathed the nickname Teddy. Just the same, fans fondly referred to him as Teddy Ballgame.. But on Jan. 9, 1952, Williams was called from a list of inactive reserves to serve in the Korean War. A vastly curtailed aviation budget prompted the Marine Corps to release large numbers of aviators to the inactive reserve, which meant the Corps was desperately short of pilots when war broke out in Korea. In the aftermath of World War II all U.S. military branches underwent massive drawdowns. With the alternate field in view Williams made a straight-in approach, holding the crippled Panther just off the runway to bleed off airspeed. Self-guided tour or VIP experience. The Service World Series with the Army versus the Navy attracted crowds of 40,000 for each game. That year, on his election to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., he was named a team vice president. The auction begins Monday and runs through Saturday. Williams was returned to active military duty for portions of the 1952 and 1953 seasons to serve as a Marine combat aviator in the Korean War. He made a public statement that once he had built up his mother's trust fund, he intended to enlist. Williams, who suffered . [58] With the score 54 and runners on first and third, Williams homered with his eyes closed to secure a 75 AL win. Updated: Wednesday September 25, 2002 7:50 PM. He refused to salute the fans as he returned the dugout after he crossed home plate or after he was replaced in left field by Carroll Hardy. He had not flown a plane for seven years, but passed his physical and was recalled on active duty on May 2, 1952 as a Marine Corps captain. This was the first time that he had done so since his earliest days as a player. Support provided by Market New York through I LOVE NY/ New York States Division of Tourism as a part of the Regional Economic Development Council awards. And if my record is broken, I hope you're the one to do it". After completing his academic courses at Amherst, Williams undertook basic flight training at Naval Air Station Bunker Hill, Ind., and advanced training at NAS Pensacola, Fla. . In 1941, the entire country followed Williams's stunning .406 season, a record that has not been touched in over six decades. Verify your free subscription by following the instructions in the email sent to: Search the largest free Veteran Job board to find jobs with veteran-friendly companies. I LOVE NEW YORK is a registered trademark and service mark of the New York State Department of Economic Development; used with permission. Fans responded with a standing ovation that lasted several minutes. Despite the cheers and adulation of most of his fans, the occasional boos directed at him in Fenway Park led Williams to stop tipping his cap in acknowledgment after a home run. (His self-claimed victory count is 28.) Williams led the Red Sox to the American League pennant in 1946 and won his second Triple Crown in 1947. [69] In the season, Williams won the Triple Crown,[63] with a .356 batting average, 36 home runs, and 137 RBIs. "[12], Williams lived in San Diego's North Park neighborhood (4121 Utah Street). He flew 37 combat missions during the Korean War as a Marine Corps captain, joining future astronaut John Glenn in the same fighter squadron. [176], In 1954, Williams was inducted by the San Diego Hall of Champions into the Breitbard Hall of Fame honoring San Diego's finest athletes both on and off the playing surface.[177]. In 1969 Williams signed on as manager of the D.C.based Washington Senators, and he remained with the team through 1972, a year after it had moved south to Arlington, Texas, as the renamed Rangers. Williams qualified to fly the Vought F4U Corsair. After a year as an instructor Williams was sent to Pearl Harbor to await combat assignment to the western Pacific, but the war ended before he could deploy. Once during one of their yearly debate sessions on the greatest hitters of all time, Williams asserted that Hornsby was one of the greatest of all time. [37] On May 21, Williams also hit his 100th career home run. [117] Williams was out for six weeks, and in April he wrote an article with Joe Reichler of the Saturday Evening Post saying that he intended to retire at the end of the season. Well, there are a lot [of games] when I do. Ted Williams, the renowned American baseball player, is not just remembered for his achievements on the baseball field.During World War II, Williams was also a decorated fighter pilot in the United States Marines. The letters were written to Evelyn Turner, a flight attendant, from 1952 to 1954, a period in which Williams trained in the U.S. and served in Korea as a Marine combat pilot. Ted's magnificent baseball career, which began in 1939, finally ended in 1960. [28] Williams remained in major league spring training for about a week. CRYSTAL RIVER, Fla. (AP) -- Ted Williams, Beantown's ever cranky but much beloved "Splendid Splinter" and baseball's last .400 hitter, died Friday. Another incident occurred in 1958 in a game against the Washington Senators. Williams also had one of his best statistical seasons as a hitter, batting .260 with 10 home runs and 42 RBIs in only 78 games. They flew very low and were subject to being hit by flak . The next day, he flew again and took enemy fire over Chinnampo. They were divorced in 1972. The Red Sox played three more games, but they were on the road in New York City and Williams did not appear in any of them, as it became clear that Williams's final home at-bat would be the last one of his career. He resumed his spring training instruction role with the club in 1978. [83], For the 1946 season, Williams hit .342 with 38 home runs and 123 RBIs,[37] helping the Red Sox win the pennant on September 13. Following his return to the United States in August 1953, he resigned his Reserve commission to resume his baseball career.[149]. [173], Though the family pact upset some friends, family and fans, a public plea for financial support of the lawsuit by Ferrell produced little result. He was especially linked with the Jimmy Fund of the DanaFarber Cancer Institute, which provides support for children's cancer research and treatment. There were maybe seventy-five pilots in our two squadrons and 99 percent of them did a better job than I did.". He was a Marine pilot just like the rest of us and did a great job." "(As) Much as I appreciate baseball, Ted to me will always be a Marine fighter pilot. Williams married Dolores Wettach, a former Miss Vermont and Vogue model, in 1968. They include three Air Medals for Aerial Flight Operations, Navy Unit commendation, Presidential Medal of Freedom, American and Asian Pacific Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal, National Defense Service Medal, and more. He followed this up by winning his first Triple Crown in 1942. Williams struck out, and as he stepped from the batter's box swung his bat violently in anger. Thirty-eight letters penned by Hall of . [75], On September 2, 1945, when the war ended, Lt. Williams was in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii awaiting orders as a replacement pilot. Williams began receiving offers from the New York Yankees and St. Louis Cardinals when he was still in high school, but his mother signed him up for the San Diego Padres since she believed he was too young to leave home. Like many great players, Williams became impatient with ordinary athletes' abilities and attitudes, particularly those of pitchers, whom he admitted he never respected. Fourteen months after being promoted to captain in the Marine Corps in 1952, Williams was called back to the military to serve during the Korean War. [111] Williams also played in 148 games, 60 more than Williams had played the previous season, 30 home runs, two more than he had hit in 1950, and 126 RBIs, twenty-nine more than 1950. . Ted Williams was named the 1946 AL MVP after leading the Red Sox to the pennant. Insecure about his upbringing, and stubborn because of immense confidence in his own talent, Williams made up his mind that the "knights of the keyboard", as he derisively labeled the press, were against him. A trip to Cooperstown has something for baseball fans and everyone else. Williams's baseball season of 1941 is often considered favorably with the greatest seasons of Ruth and Bonds in terms of various offensive statistical measures such as slugging, on-base and "offensive winning percentage." [57] In the fourth inning Williams doubled to drive in a run. [113] Williams passed his physical and in May, after only playing in six major league games, began refresher flight training and qualification prior to service in Korea. [172] John-Henry said that his father was a believer in science and was willing to try cryonics if it held the possibility of reuniting the family. Ted Williams is remembered as one of the greatest athletes in Boston sports history. This assertion actually led to a split in the relationship between Ty Cobb and Ted Williams. In 1941, the entire country followed Williams's stunning .406 season, a record that has not been touched in over six decades. [23] Meanwhile, Collins kept in touch with Padres general manager Bill Lane, calling him two times throughout the season. On this mission, as with many, Williams was flying as wingman for his squadron's operations officer, John H. Glenn, Jr.: Ohio's Mercury astronaut, former senator, and 1984 presidential candidate. [116] The Red Sox went on to win the game 53, thanks to a two-run home run by Williams in the seventh inning. To his surprise Ted Williams was among those summoned. In late April, Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey and Yankees owner Dan Topping agreed to swap the players, but a day later canceled the deal when Yawkey requested that Yogi Berra come with DiMaggio. TED WILLIAMS. "[115] Private Wolf (an injured Korean veteran from Brooklyn) presented gifts from wounded veterans to Ted Williams. . "If Ted returns to the Marines and passes up the seasons of 1952 and 1953, he would be asked to pick up the threads of a broken career at the age of 35, so dubious an undertaking that it verges on the impossible," wrote Arthur Daley of the New York Times, prior to Williams' enlistment. "[142] He also asserted that it made no sense crashing into an outfield wall to try to make a difficult catch because of the risk of injury or being out of position to make the play after missing the ball. His biographer, Leigh Montville, argued that Williams was not happy about being pressed into service in South Korea, but he did what he thought was his patriotic duty. The man who would become one of Americas most celebrated athletes was born Theodore Samuel Williams in San Diego on Aug. 30, 1918. [94] Williams won the Triple Crown in 1947, but lost the MVP award to Joe DiMaggio, 202 points to 201 points. During the 1999 MLB All-Star Game at Fenway Park, Williams made one of his most memorable public appearanceswhen he was escorted to the pitcher's mound in a golf cart as the Boston crowd roared. Here are Williams' average numbers in the four full seasons before (1939-42) and after (1946-49) his World War II service, and the four full seasons before (1948-51) and after (1954-57) his Korean War service. Glenn and Williams were both Marine pilots during World . [154], On the subject of pitchers, in Ted's autobiography written with 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. The North Korean air force at the time was negligible, so most of the squadrons sorties involved flying close air support missions for Marines and soldiers on the ground. [96] Williams was the third major league player to have had at least four 30-home run and 100-RBI seasons in their first five years, joining Chuck Klein and Joe DiMaggio, and followed by Ralph Kiner, Mark Teixeira, Albert Pujols, and Ryan Braun through 2011.[97]. An avid sport fisherman, he hosted a television program about fishing, and was inducted into the IGFA Fishing Hall of Fame. HistoryNet.com is brought to you by HistoryNet LLC, the worlds largest publisher of history magazines. [147] Williams's Red Sox teammate, Johnny Pesky, who went into the same aviation training program, said this about Williams: "He mastered intricate problems in fifteen minutes which took the average cadet an hour, and half of the other cadets there were college grads." Williams had been classified 1-A, the most eligible draft category, and in January he received notice to report for duty. [58] With the National League (NL) leading 52 in the eighth inning, Williams struck out in the middle of an American League (AL) rally. As a headline-grabbing major leaguer, Williams could have safely spent the war playing ball on various U.S. Navy base teams. During a large strike over Kyomipo, Korea, Williams was hit by North Korean forces and safely crash landed. [173] Citing financial difficulties, Ferrell dropped her lawsuit on the condition that a $645,000 trust fund left by Williams would immediately pay the sum out equally to the three children. This powerful and unprecedented statement from the Hall of Fame podium was "a first crack in the door that ultimately would open and include Paige and Gibson and other Negro league stars in the shrine. "Ted Williams's .406 Is More Than a Number". In retirement Williams started his own baseball camp, for boys aged 7 to 17, in Lakeville, Mass. Red Sox legend Ted Williams proudly served as a Marine Corps aviator during World War IIit was his service in Korea that came as a surprise. [111], Williams's name was called from a list of inactive reserves to serve on active duty in the Korean War on January 9, 1952. In the 1953 season Williams went to bat 110 times in 37 games and ended up hitting .407 with 13 home runs and 34 RBIs. An action-oriented athlete with tremendous reflexes and hand-eye coordination, he wanted to be an aviatorspecifically, a naval aviator. I liked flying, Williams said. [34] In the winter, the Red Sox traded right fielder Ben Chapman to the Cleveland Indians to make room for Williams on the roster, even though Chapman had hit .340 in the previous season. [109] Williams only played 89 games in 1950. [136], Williams ended his career with a home run in his last at-bat on September 28, 1960. Williams played for the Boston Red Sox from 1939 to 1960, and missed nearly five full seasons while serving his country in World War II and later the Korean War as a Marine fighter pilot. Williams explained years later, "From '56 on, I realized that people were for me. He finished his playing career with a .344 batting average, 521 home runs, and a 1.116 on-base plus slugging percentage, the second highest of all time. Unlike many other major league players, he did not spend all of his war-time playing on service teams. While individuals seeking to become fixed-wing fliers in the present-day U.S. service branches are required to hold a bachelors degree, that was not a hard-and-fast rule during World War II. [14][15] As a child, Williams's heroes were Pepper Martin of the St. Louis Cardinals and Bill Terry of the New York Giants. During the 1949 season he also set a record by reaching base in 84 consecutive games. He served through 1945 and returned to the Red Sox in 1946, helping the team win the American League pennant and taking home the MVP award. (USAF photo) After the Korean War, Glenn became a test pilot, making a mark in Project Bullet, using a F8U-1P Crusader (the Navy's pre-1962 designation for the RF-8A version of the Crusader) to cross the United States faster than the speed of sound . [93] In May, Williams was hitting .337. [17] During this time, he also played American Legion Baseball, later being named the 1960 American Legion Baseball Graduate of the Year. He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1966. . [57] In the ninth inning the AL still trailed 53; Ken Keltner and Joe Gordon singled, and Cecil Travis walked to load the bases. In 1942, he enlisted in the United States Navy to fight in World War II, and became a fighter pilot in the Pacific Theater. This resulted in the discovery of an inner ear infection that disqualified him from flight status. [37][62], Williams's 1941 season is often considered to be the best offensive season of all time, though the MVP award would go to DiMaggio. The .553 OBP stood as a major league record until it was broken by Barry Bonds in 2002 and his .735 slugging percentage was the highest mark in the major leagues between 1932 and 1994. [118], On the first day of spring training in 1954, Williams broke his collarbone running after a line drive. Ted Williams was sworn into the Marine Corps in 1942 and spent three years learning to fly and serving as a pilot instructor during World War II. For one, he wasnt on a baseball field, and the action was definitely not part of any game. Subscribe to receive our weekly newsletter with top stories from master historians. The Red Sox lost in seven games,[89] with Williams going 0-for-4 in the last game. He made his major league debut against the New York Yankees on April 20,[37] going 1-for-4 against Yankee pitcher Red Ruffing. Day trip or a week-long adventure. On February 16 Williams participated in his first combat mission, a major strike against a heavily defended tank and infantry training complex south of Pyongyang, North Korea. The plane was damaged by anti-aircraft fire, but Williams survived thanks to piloting skill honed . Much as I appreciate baseball, Ted to me will always be a Marine fighter pilot.. Read More. [54] Williams's average slowly climbed in the first half of May, and on May 15, he started a 22-game hitting streak. [104] Williams is still the Red Sox career home run leader. He achieved his final kill in 1944, the same day that his . The Padres ended up winning the PCL title, while Williams ended up hitting .291 with 23 home runs. Saul was one of his mother's four brothers, as well as a former semi-professional baseball player who had pitched against Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Joe Gordon in an exhibition game. As the keepers of the Games history, the Hall of Fame helps you relive your memories and celebrate baseball history. If I hadnt had baseball to come back to, I might have gone on as a Marine pilot., Craig Muder is the director of communications for the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. The maternal, Spanish-Mexican side of Williams's family was quite diverse, having Spanish (Basque), Russian, and American Indian roots. Was Ted Williams A Fighter Pilot? [62]) Philadelphia fans ran out on the field to surround Williams after the game, forcing him to protect his hat from being stolen; he was helped into the clubhouse by his teammates. Ted went to Jacksonville for a course in aerial gunnery, the combat pilot's payoff test, and broke all the records in reflexes, coordination, and visual-reaction time. That was good enough for me, Williams recalled in his autobiography. Williams retired from playing in 1960. Williams had to borrow $200 from a bank to make the trip from San Diego to Sarasota. The collection also recognizes Williams' achievements as a fishing hall of famer and a fighter pilot who missed parts of five seasons to serve in WWII and the Korean War. [92] Williams was also almost traded for Joe DiMaggio in 1947. [126][127] Three weeks later at home against the Yankees on August7, after Williams was booed for dropping a fly ball from Mickey Mantle, he spat at one of the fans who was taunting him on the top of the dugout;[128] Williams was fined $5,000 for the incident. The rule was changed shortly thereafter to keep this from happening again. An essay written by John Updike the following month for The New Yorker, "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu", chronicles this event. He was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1966. [49] Williams said that the "only real fun" he had in 1940 was being able to pitch once on August 24, when he pitched the last two innings in a 121 loss to the Detroit Tigers, allowing one earned run on three hits, while striking out one batter, Rudy York.[50][51]. His OPS of 1.287 that year, a Red Sox record, was the highest in the major leagues between 1923 and 2001. Ted Williams was inducted into the Hall of Fame on July 25, 1966 in Cooperstown. Williams best season as a manager was 1969, when he led the expansion Senators to its only winning season and was chosen American League Manager of the Year. (National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum). Orlando still called Williams "the Kid" 20 years later,[27] and the nickname stuck with Williams the rest of his life. Most modern statistical analyses[which?] [76], Williams was discharged by the Marine Corps on January 28, 1946, in time to begin preparations for the upcoming pro baseball season. "Ted flew as my wingman on about half the missions he flew in Korea," Glenn told MLB.com. "[179] Williams was referring to two of the most famous names in the Negro leagues, who were not given the opportunity to play in the Major Leagues before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in 1947. Even though there was not a Rookie of the Year award yet in 1939, Babe Ruth declared Williams to be the Rookie of the Year, which Williams later said was "good enough for me".

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