Baseball has many frequently asked questions which really can never be answered for sure. Could Babe Ruth play in today’s game? Did he actually call his shot during the 1932 World Series? How many Hall of Famers used performance enhancing drugs? Is Billy Maharg actually Peaches Graham?
But one of baseball’s most often pondered FAQs is, “How much greater would Ted Williams have been had he not missed so much time due to World War II and the Korean war?” And I would like to try to answer that.
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Ted Williams broke into the bigs in 1939 with a slash-line of .