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Article: TED WILLIAMS 1918-2002; Name your price; As free agent, Ted would lure millions.(Sports)
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- The Boston Herald
- Article date:
- July 7, 2002
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If Ted Williams played in the free agent era, he'd have been the highest paid player in baseball. He'd have been a much, much wealthier man.
But Williams may not have been a member of the Red Sox very long.
Williams would be the highest paid player in baseball's free economy because that's what he was in pre-Marvin Miller, unfree economy. From 1948 on (which is about the point in Ted's career he would've been eligible to turn free agent), Williams had the highest annual salary ($125,000) in the game.
Although Williams didn't much care about that distinction, Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey did. When the Yankees made Joe DiMaggio the game's first ...