Uncle Scoopy's Ballpark: The last .400 hitter

Uncle Scoopy's Ballpark: The last .400 hitter

You probably know me well enough to know that I'm not writing about Ted Williams. I don't know if there's anything more to say about ol' Teddy Ballgame. His life and career have been dissected like a frog in a high school bio class. He was one of the rare humans whose fondest wish came true, that one day he would walk down the street and people would point at him and say, "There goes Ted Williams, the greatest hitter who ever lived."

Today I'm going to tell you the story of another kind of major league ballplayer, the kind of guy who walks down the street and people say, "Isn't that the night clerk at that motel by the interstate?"

As it turns out, he is not the night guy at the No-Tell Motel or at 7-Eleven, but is the last man to bat .400 or more in a season with 150 or more plate appearances, and in so doing, he brought a team from behind to win a pennant.