Fifty years ago today, Ted Williams walked up to the plate on a chilly, overcast day at Fenway Park and stepped into the batter's box in the bottom of the eighth inning against Baltimore pitcher Jack Fisher. He took his familiar stance, looked at the first pitch for a ball, swung and missed at the second, then drove the third pitch into the bullpen for the most famous farewell in baseball history.
Ted Williams had gone out the way so many players dream about and almost none accomplish: He homered in his final at-bat.
"I was gunning for the big one," Williams said in the clubhouse after the game. "I let everything I had go. I really wanted that one."
Exactly 50 years ago. Today. THE Red Sox legend....
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