The slugger's 1966 Hall of Fame speech is credited with helping Negro League players get into the Hall fo Fame
Share on linkedin Boston Red Sox player Ted Williams watches his hit at Fenway Park in Boston during the 1959 season. Photo: Paul Maguire/The Boston Globe via Getty Imagesto MLB's historical record last month followed a decades-long fight that began with a plea from Boston Red Sox slugger Ted Williams, his biographer tells Axios.from the public amid MLB segregation but later became one of the first outspoken advocates for Negro League players whom he admired.
He played left field for the Boston Red Sox for 19 years, during which time he won two American League Most Valuable Player Awards and twice won the Triple Crown. The slugger also lost prime years because of service in World War II and the Korean War — something that angered him.After his sensational 1939 rookie year, Williams returned to San Diego to find around 20 of his Mexican American relatives waiting for him at the train station for a hero's welcome.At that time, not only were Black players not allowed in MLB, but the Red Sox were owned by Tom Yawkey, a controversial figure who was the last owner to integrate a major league baseball team.
"That was a political speech. And Williams was so influential as a player, and this...had a huge effect," said Bradlee, who wrote the 2013 book,A few years later, Cooperstown relented, and Paige and later Negro League players were inducted into the Hall of Fame., after Jackie Robinson broke the modern-day color line. He'd mentor future Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn, a San Diego Padres hitter.
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