'Ted Williams' HBO Documentary Sheds Light on All-Time Great

by Andrew JohnsonFiled under: Red Sox, MLB Hall of Fame, MLB VideoIt's a little more than 10 years to the day since Ted Williams bid his informal adieu to Boston and baseball fans. The all-time great Red Sox left fielder died three years later in 2002 after numerous health complications, but his appearance at the '99 All-Star Game at Fenway Park was one of his final in public and the one that left the most indelible mark. Even with the backdrop of Mark McGwire crushing chemically-enhanced blasts over the Green Monster during the Home Run Derby, and Pedro Martinez's maestro act at the height of his prime a night later in the All-Star Game, Williams' farewell was the defining moment of a seminal Midsummer Classic. Life hasn't gotten any simpler since Williams rode that cart to the center of Fenway Park, adulation from fans in the Hub and All-Stars alike washing over him. Neither has the Splendid Splinter's legacy, as the HBO documentary "Ted Williams,&quo...