What a great interview. My dad took me to a baseball card convention when I was a kid and I got to meet Joe and get a ball signed by him. I was about 11 years old. Still have the ball and that great memory.
@@chrishenry1821 Oh yeah! Back in the 90's, he was making $100k+ per card show. Him, Mantle and Williams made more money signing autographs than what they made playing ball.
I heard a story that Joe DiMaggio used run full sprint on every play and even when running onto the field and off during every spring training game! Another player asked him “why are you playing like it’s the World Series on every play???” Joe said “it’s for the fans in the stands that won’t ever have another chance to see me play and I wanna make sure I give them my very best at all times. Joe respected the fans and I respect him for that!
Accolades to both of those Icons for their greatness in the game of baseball. I’m especially impressed with Ted Williams serving as a fighter pilot and flight instructor in two wars and missing 5 years of his prime. Ted was the creme de la creme of American heroes
So nice to see the respect they have for each other. Joe and Ted would put up the best numbers playing inside today's parks. Nobody playing to day is better than those two at hitting the ball.
I love that Ted gave props to Willie Mays, his hof speech wanting more integration was great. He came across as crude and rude so you might think racist but total opposite. Ted one of the greatest hitters of all time, just imagine if Ted would have put time in working on defense like hitting but still decent outfielder, I know I'm quibbling
I saw Joe Dimaggio at a baseball card show in Galesburg, Illinois in 1987. He was in better shape than people half his age and one of the most dignified looking gentlemen I've ever seen. Pure class.
Ted was outspoken against the media who wrote fiction about him and against him. Much like the msm does against President Trump. Unfortunately , some people get sucked into the corrupt msm and swallow the schlop . Have a nice day !
Will Rogan that’s the worst insult to Ted Williams in all my 77 years....I’ll tell you what, Ted would’ve been a better President BY FAR !! ....Williams ICON - -Trump ALLCON
Ted's average was something like .3995 going into the double header that ended the season. It would have rounded to .400 and his manager asked him if he wanted to sit out. He said hell no, if I'm going to be a .400 hitter I want to have more than my toes on the line. Then he went 6 for 8 in the double header to finish at .406.
Kansas city outfielder willie wilson sat out the last games or games in order to protect his .336 ave. In 1976...to win the batting championship...oh well he got his world champion ring in 1985...almost got as well in 1980.
@@gjmaztr7 Both 1976 batting races came down to the last day (and sparked their own controversy) but Wilson's title was won in 1982. Wilson was sat down by Dick Howser to protect his lead over Robin Yount. Yount was having a big day, though, so that if he got a hit in his last at-bat, he'd overtake Wilson. That's when Billy Martin (managing the Yankees, Kansas City's OPPONENT that day) delayed the game with some nonsense to buy time to see how Yount did, so that Wilson could either bat again, or not. What Martin's interest was I don't know, but it was a shameful episode. Anyway, Yount made out in his last at-bat, so Wilson kept his lead.
Nonsense. Hitting streaks and batting average are both overrated as hell. Batting average treats a single the same as a HR, both 1-1. SLG and OBP are both WAY more meaningful stats. Joe was nowhere near the hitter Ted was.
Both were originally from California, Joe Di Maggio from San Francisco and Williams from San Diego. And they both started playing organized baseball in the old PCL or Pacific Coast League. ...just imagine if the Giants were already in SF & the Padres were in existent when these two were young men... You can bet they would have been signed and playing for their local clubs instead of for the Yankees and Red Sox back east. Lots of early talent in MLB originated from the PCL and California.
I didn't believe you so I looked it up. You are correct at 13. That's insane he played 139 games. All his years played he had an extremely low strikeout rate. They were in the 20s and 30s. Not one year did he even hit or not hit 40 strikeouts. I think he needs more recognition for that.
@@writerconsidered when I read it i couldn't believe it neither. I looked it up & sure enough, "it is what it really is." I wonder how many of those were swinging K's or called 3rd strikes. And with the called 3rd strikes how many were "Umpire's mistakes".
What I love about watching these old time interviews is the players great memories. What pitcher pitched that day. What type of pitch. What the balls and strike count was. Who was on base. Just incredible and entertaining. I love baseball ⚾️
Williams goes 6 for 8 the last day in a season ending double header to finish at .406. Not bad! The Yankees tried to convince Ted to join them in 1961 but he stayed retired. With that short porch in NY he would have been something even at age 42-43.
It's been long questioned if Williams was a Yankee and didn't go out to war TWICE , of how many career HR's he would have had as a dead pull hitter. Could Ted have hit 800 HR's ?
The issues DiMaggio had with the old stadium are the following.Number one is, dead center field back then was461'and monuments were located in center field then, The most important problem for him then, was left center field, where the footage was 457', being a left center field hitting,he lost many of home runs in that park.I still remember being there as a.kid when he hit three long drives, each one caught against the 457 sign.If he ever played in today's parks in the major leagues ,who knows how many home runs he would have hit.Also remember he lost three prime years to the military., He will always be considered one of the best all around players to ever play the game.As for Williams, he is the greatest left hand batter's to play.But he sure as hell could not do all the things JD on the field.This coming from some one, that seen both of them play many times.
It's still mind-boggling DiMaggio hit 46 home runs playing half his games in Yankee Stadium 460 feet in left center! Williams hit .388 at age 38. Crazy. Even at 41 hit hit .316. I'm not sure he was a better hitter than Ruth, or Joe D was a better all-around player than Mays, but one could certainly make an argument for it, in both cases.
If you look at career batting stats in terms of power, batting average and on base percentage, Ted Williams and Babe Ruth are pretty much out there by themselves in baseball history. And Ted Williams lost 3 full seasons in his prime (age 24, 25, 26) serving in WWII and parts of 2 seasons on active duty during the Korean War, or he would have hit well over 600 home runs.
Carlson 1990. False. Mays NEVER "made an easy catch look hard", that's utter horse manure. Mays threw and ran better than DiMaggio, and had better power, despite playing in San Francisco's notoriously chilly Candlestick Park.
Don. DiMaggio retired in 1951. This guy's a May's hater, because as great a player at DiMaggio was, May's was better - the best all-around player in the history of baseball, with the possible exception of Ruth.
Those bums you mentioned would not make the minors in 1940. Carbrera and Trout would be bench warmers. The game today is a goddamn joke, along with their hair styles, the way they wear a uniform and the overall fat asses playing the game. Lazy fat asses.
Joe's 56 shows consistency BUT Ted outhit him by .004 during that stretch. Ted hit .406 and didn't win the MVP. TWICE, Ted won the triple crown and didn't win the MVP. (All three times he lost to a NY Yankee.)
Thanks for that download two of the greatest, and Ted a great favorite of mine as 406 hitting average for the season and JD 56 straight hits is something else!!!!
Maybe so. I think Pete Rose came closest with a 44 gm streak in 1978. And no one has batted .400 since Ted Williams, so that one may never happen again. 2 of the greatest, on anyone's short list
A Baller, I'd take Joe's glove but the Rings are something Ted had no control over. Had the situations been reversed, I think the Yankees win the same number of Rings.
I remember watching this interview as a kid in 1991. I had just turned 12, loved the Mets, had heard of Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams, but didn't know much about them. Ted hit .406 and Joe hit in 56 straight games. Cool... But start the All-Star game already, these are just some old baseball guys. If only I knew then what I'd come to learn later.
Dimaggio in almost 7000 at bats only struck out 368 times. amazing bat control. also no player has been more hurt in HR than Joe. old yankee stadium for right handers was impossible- 450 feet in left center field. 2/3 of Joes HR were in opposing parks. between ww2 and that he would have had well over 500. Joe doesn’t get enough credit for the greatest of all time these days but everyone when he was alive thought it was him.
Man! Ted Williams was such a class act. He forever kept up graciously saying Joe DiMaggio was the greatest living ballplayer, and Joe was elite, but there were guys like Mays, Aaron, Mantle, and Ted himself who were better than DiMaggio. He never condescended Joe's self-aggrandizing. I respect that.
I don't believe Ted is in the conversation for best all around player. He couldn't run and openly didn't even care about playing defense. Ted was not a better all around player than DiMaggio, Mantle or Mays.
@@username-zj9id And I don't think he'd argue with you. But as a hitter his only rival is Ruth. We don't know how Bonds would have compared because of the steroids, but he wasn't Williams or Ruth good before them. Damn good, though. Pity nature wasnt enough.
@@nicholasschroeder3678 Bonds would have been an all time great player without steroids. Now, he's taken himself out of the running in my opinion. Ruth is the best hitter of all time in my opinion, Williams is #2. Gehrig may have overtaken them both if not for his disease.
Joe D and Ted would be on my all time team! I remember when Ted Williams came to my hometown and was the rep for Sears. He was using profanity and they told him to leave. LMAO
Ruth, Mays, T. Williams, DiMaggio, Mantle, Aaron, Gehrig are the greatest of all time. These last 25 years has produced some great ball players - Bonds, A Rod, Griffey Jr. Jr was the only one who did it w/out roads. But the one and only who brings back memories of the old timers all timers is the kid in Anaheim Mike Trout. Tell me otherwise No way
What Joe says starting at 3:20 is everything. These guys today need to think of the fans first, but most of them don't get it. Without the fans, there is no MLB.
Joe always had Marilyn Monroe on his mind...he was madly in love and it consumed his life...every interview I see of him he seems to be in a deep train of thought and it’s really sad
Two points to remember. Willie Mays was better all-around than DiMaggio as Ted hinted at. Also, Joe's hitting streak was great, but the man never walked. Ted could never had a long hitting streak because he walked once or twice every game. DiMaggio only walked a bit over 300 times in his entire career.
There were apparently some secret talks between the Yankees and Red Sox about a DiMaggio for Williams trade in the late 40's. Can you imagine where the Yankees would have been with Williams playing alongside Mantle in Yankee Stadium for a decade or more? It would have served Boston right for all the crap their press dished out to Williams over the years, calling him, for example, "the doormat that others step on on the way to the Hall of Fame," and "not patriotic" because he dared to complain about being drafted for a second period of service in the Air Force flying prop fighters against jets in Korea? Forget 54 and 55, and probably even 57 and 59. The Yanks would have swept the fifties.
Ted WIlliams was world-class in three different areas: 1) Major League Baseball hitter; 2) US military fighter pilot marksmanship in two wars; 3) Deep sea fishing. Joe DiMaggio was world-class in three different areas as well: 1) Great all-around Major League Baseball player ; 2) Fantastic coffee pitchman; 3) Was married to Marilyn Monroe.
Funny how Williams opens by talking about Joe being best right handed hitter. when they used to as DiMaggio about Williams he would say “best left handed hitter in baseball” - he wouldn’t say best hitter over himself. their rivalry was eternal.
Williams had a more impressive streak of getting on base over 80 games in row. Getting on base for every game for more than half a season and batting over .400 is more impressive than a 56 game hitting streak
The record for games reaching base safely (hits and walks) belongs to Ted Williams at 84, followed by Joe DiMaggio at 74 ... followed by Ted Williams at 73. This fact is little known, but is a more outstanding record that just "hits."
Ya gotta give props to Pete with 44games those pitchers did him dirty in that last game of the streak don't forget Paul Molitor and his 39 game hitting streak either
I did not see Joe DiMaggio play. I got to know of him well after his playing days. I have looked at his stats and have made a comparison to those of Willie Mays. Mays Stats H its 3283 HR 660 BA .302 Runs Scored 2062 RBI 1903 SB 338
DiMaggio's Stats AB 6821 Hits 2214 HR 361 BA .325 Runs Scored 1390 RBI 1537 SB 30 Joe DiMaggio put together the best 13 years of any player, maybe in history, but his numbers don't even come close to those of Willie Mays. As far as the outfield is concerned, I don't think Joe DiMaggio was better. It appears by the fielding numbers, they were roughly equal. The accounts are that DiMaggio was more graceful. Willie Mays was very graceful from what I recall of the 1960s.
Pure stats don't tell the whole of Joe's story. Dimaggio lost perhaps his 3 most prime seasons - ages 28-30 - to WW2. The war did that to a number of great players careers. Hank Greenberg lost 4 prime years, and was never able to return to form once he came back. Johnny Mize lost 3 prime seasons. And Williams? He lost 3 full season to WW2, and most of two other seasons due to service in Korea. This being said, one reason Mays had such incredible stats is that his career was so long. He had an iron constitution and took great care of himself. Mays played in over 150 games for 13 consecutive seasons. Willie was productive right up to the age of 40, while Joe was finished at 36. In the end, I'd have to say Mays had the most complete game. He stole a lot of bags, leading the NL 4 straight years in that department. Mays was the better HR hitter but to be fair to Joe, he played half his games in cavernous Yankee stadium. Somewhere in the interview, DiMaggio said that he loved being a Yankee, but wished he could have played in a stadium other than Yankee stadium. I'd love to have seen both in their primes. I saw Willie at the end of his career at Shea. Saw him just miss a HR twice.
@@nrcg2317 True (more like a year and 120 games). The only difference is that he hadn't hit his stride yet; he didn't have his prime interrupted He was a young 23 when he returned and began his legend. That is a good point though.
@@freespeech4all757 Willie Mays came back to hit 41 homeruns when he returned in 1953. Imagine how many homeruns he missed in those two years. Those two years represented between 70 and 80 homeruns. He would have surpassed Ruth in HRs. I thought the original question was, who was the better center fielder? If you want to focus on a 13 year stretch that centers primarily on hitting, then that would be a different question, but still, Mays is a superior center fielder: faster, stronger, with a tremendous fielding range and arm. If I were to multiply by 3 DiMaggio's best year (1937) to account for his military service, he would still not surpass Mays in HRs and hits. Was DiMaggio a high standard? Yes. Was he the gold standard?? No, that honor belongs to Willie Mays. I will agree that DiMaggio's stride was interrupted by military service, but who's to know what would have really happened in either case had neither been absent from baseball? All we have are numbers, memories and all that was written of each player. The numbers speak volumes about Mays. One stops to think about any player's numbers for a moment, DiMaggio had 2214 hits. Hank Aaron had 2297 RBIs. OMG!! He had more runs batted in that DiMaggio had hits. Tremendous consistency!! It boggles the mind.
@@nrcg2317 Like Rodney Dangerfield said, you gotta have health. Guys like Aaron, Mays, Rose, Ryan, Henderson - guys who racked up great numbers for decades and simply had great constitutions are marvels indeed. I have a theory that players were more durable in the past because of they way they lived. When I was growing up in the 60s, I didn't sit around playing electronic games and staring into a smartphone. I went out a did stuff. I walked around town until I chanced upon a football, baseball or basketball game in progress, or I got some buddies together and we played. As far as pitchers throwing 300+ innings and 30 complete games per season back in the day - that was another benefit to growing up back then. You were always throwing a ball. Baseball, football, rubber ball - whatever. If it was just you and 1 friend, you might get your glove and a ball and play catch and talk until you got bored or tired. It seems I was always throwing something - if it wasn't balls, it was rocks. When I got REALLY bored and no one was around, I would take a ball and just throw it against the back of our garage. You build up a ton of arm and shoulder strength that way. Kids just don't do that anymore.
Ted Williams. GREAT hitter... ACE pilot & American hero... Wow.
My client now age 94 was his roomie during Flight Training. Said he was a regular guy and everybody liked him.
Hero’s are the ones who don’t come back.
Joe dimaggio 9 ws in 13 season and american hero too
What a great interview. My dad took me to a baseball card convention when I was a kid and I got to meet Joe and get a ball signed by him. I was about 11 years old. Still have the ball and that great memory.
He probably made a fortune that day haha
@@chrishenry1821 Oh yeah! Back in the 90's, he was making $100k+ per card show. Him, Mantle and Williams made more money signing autographs than what they made playing ball.
What a great story, Daren!
That’s cool! I took my son to something similar for Keith Hernandez a few years ago but your experience was more amazing. The Clipper!!
I heard a story that Joe DiMaggio used run full sprint on every play and even when running onto the field and off during every spring training game!
Another player asked him “why are you playing like it’s the
World Series on every play???”
Joe said “it’s for the fans in the stands that won’t ever have another chance to see me play and I wanna make sure I give them my very best at all times.
Joe respected the fans and I respect him for that!
And that’s a reason he retired at a relatively young age. He didn’t want the fans to see a less than stellar DiMaggio.
Man, Ted and Joe D. in the same room? Unreal.
Goosebumps. Fucking goosebumps.
With Jack Buck doing the interview...oh yea...freaking epic.
MANCHESTER UNITED that’s nice in all, but *I don’t remember asking*
Jack Buck is no slouch either. What a treat growing up listening to him do Cardinal baseball.
@MANCHESTER UNITED Soccer is a fucken bore,SUNSHINE. 😎
Accolades to both of those Icons for their greatness in the game of baseball. I’m especially impressed with Ted Williams serving as a fighter pilot and flight instructor in two wars and missing 5 years of his prime. Ted was the creme de la creme of American heroes
Dimaggio also spent prime years serving in WWII.
Ted Williams was the REAL John Wayne
Two great Americans sitting together discussing their craft. This is a treasure!
So nice to see the respect they have for each other. Joe and Ted would put up the best numbers playing inside today's parks. Nobody playing to day is better than those two at hitting the ball.
I love that Ted gave props to Willie Mays, his hof speech wanting more integration was great. He came across as crude and rude so you might think racist but total opposite. Ted one of the greatest hitters of all time, just imagine if Ted would have put time in working on defense like hitting but still decent outfielder, I know I'm quibbling
I saw Joe Dimaggio at a baseball card show in Galesburg, Illinois in 1987. He was in better shape than people half his age and one of the most dignified looking gentlemen I've ever seen. Pure class.
You've gotta love Teddy. Guy speaks his mind.
Put him in the Oval Office and you'd have Donald Trump.
Will Rogan War hero Williams would have run circles around tRUMP's pea brain.
Ted was outspoken against the media who wrote fiction about him and against him. Much like the msm does against President Trump.
Unfortunately , some people get sucked into the corrupt msm and swallow the schlop .
Have a nice day !
Will Rogan that’s the worst insult to Ted Williams in all my 77 years....I’ll tell you what, Ted would’ve been a better President BY FAR !! ....Williams ICON - -Trump ALLCON
How smart was Ted Williams..
Its nice that these guys could just compliment each other ...These guys had real class
"I've seen guys sit out to protect .300, that's cheesy." - Teddy Ballgame
#Savage
Ted's average was something like .3995 going into the double header that ended the season. It would have rounded to .400 and his manager asked him if he wanted to sit out. He said hell no, if I'm going to be a .400 hitter I want to have more than my toes on the line. Then he went 6 for 8 in the double header to finish at .406.
Fun fact: By today's rules (sacrafice flies do not count as at-bats) Teddy Ballgame had avg. between .411 to .415 (vary due to no complete data).
Kansas city outfielder willie wilson sat out the last games or games in order to protect his .336 ave. In 1976...to win the batting championship...oh well he got his world champion ring in 1985...almost got as well in 1980.
@@gjmaztr7 Both 1976 batting races came down to the last day (and sparked their own controversy) but Wilson's title was won in 1982. Wilson was sat down by Dick Howser to protect his lead over Robin Yount. Yount was having a big day, though, so that if he got a hit in his last at-bat, he'd overtake Wilson. That's when Billy Martin (managing the Yankees, Kansas City's OPPONENT that day) delayed the game with some nonsense to buy time to see how Yount did, so that Wilson could either bat again, or not. What Martin's interest was I don't know, but it was a shameful episode. Anyway, Yount made out in his last at-bat, so Wilson kept his lead.
Ken Griffey say out in '76 and Cubs Billy Madlock caught him(5-5).
Two of the greatest hitters in MLB history.
Williams was the greatest ever.
@@HankFinkle11 Williams best hitter alll time Joe d best ballplayer all time
Ted and Joe were incredibly kind to each other. Fierce rivals on the field. Respect(2).
When baseball was king. It was a glorious time.
What gentlemen! Each constantly referring to and praising the other, each deserving of maximum praise.
56 games, unbelievable, Neither record will ever be broken
The day after Joe's 56-game streak ended, he began another streak of 16 consecutive games, so he hit safely in 72 of 73 games.
Joe D holds the minor league record too at 61 games. Proves he is the best!
Nonsense. Hitting streaks and batting average are both overrated as hell. Batting average treats a single the same as a HR, both 1-1. SLG and OBP are both WAY more meaningful stats. Joe was nowhere near the hitter Ted was.
@@Carlson-oy2ir Joe Wilhoit hit in 69 straight in 1919 playing in the Western League.
Excellent point which should be mentioned.
Kelly02895 If I remember well Joe D had a similar streak when he played for San Francisco.
wow what a treat to talk baseball with these two.
"I've always thought that the pitchers were the dumbest part of a ball club." -Ted Williams
Jim Palmer excluded.....
Wow… the best of the best. Incredible
2 of the GOATS
Both were originally from California, Joe Di Maggio from San Francisco and Williams from San Diego.
And they both started playing organized baseball in the old PCL or Pacific Coast League.
...just imagine if the Giants were already in SF & the Padres were in existent when these two were young men...
You can bet they would have been signed and playing for their local clubs instead of for the Yankees and Red Sox back east.
Lots of early talent in MLB originated from the PCL and California.
Two of the best and crankiest ballplayers of all time.
Two guys that are royalty.
*three
Fun fact: Ted Williams had one season when he hit .406, and two other seasons when he won the triple crown. He did not win the MVP any of those years.
Joe D, struck out 13 times, in 1941. That's amazing.
I didn't believe you so I looked it up. You are correct at 13. That's insane he played 139 games. All his years played he had an extremely low strikeout rate. They were in the 20s and 30s. Not one year did he even hit or not hit 40 strikeouts. I think he needs more recognition for that.
@@writerconsidered when I read it i couldn't believe it neither. I looked it up & sure enough, "it is what it really is." I wonder how many of those were swinging K's or called 3rd strikes. And with the called 3rd strikes how many were "Umpire's mistakes".
That's really amazing.
What I love about watching these old time interviews is the players great memories. What pitcher pitched that day. What type of pitch. What the balls and strike count was. Who was on base. Just incredible and entertaining. I love baseball ⚾️
That might be the most Joe D has ever said at one period of time.
Two Mount Rushmore of Baseball Guys!
What about when he was selling Mr. Coffee?
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And Bowery Savings Bank!
@@morganz8962 Those were 30 second commercials.
Great players unreal how good they was
It’s disgusting how underrated Ted Williams was until advanced stats came along. Now there is no question he is a top 3 all time player
So much respect for one another, two of the greatest. Doesn't get much better than these two
Two of the absolute greatest!
Wow, thanks for sharing. What a treat to listen to these two legends talk baseball.
Williams goes 6 for 8 the last day in a season ending double header to finish at .406. Not bad! The Yankees tried to convince Ted to join them in 1961 but he stayed retired. With that short porch in NY he would have been something even at age 42-43.
It's been long questioned if Williams was a Yankee and didn't go out to war TWICE , of how many career HR's he would have had as a dead pull hitter.
Could Ted have hit 800 HR's ?
What a fantastic interview. So many quotes from this as well.
Imagine the stories these three men are sharing upstairs right now. 😊☺️
In 24 hours you be gone for 20 years. From Cuba 🇨🇺 we love and miss you. Jolting Joe....
The issues DiMaggio had with the old stadium are the following.Number one is, dead center field back then was461'and monuments were located in center field then, The most important problem for him then, was left center field, where the footage was 457', being a left center field hitting,he lost many of home runs in that park.I still remember being there as a.kid when he hit three long drives, each one caught against the 457 sign.If he ever played in today's parks in the major leagues ,who knows how many home runs he would have hit.Also remember he lost three prime years to the military., He will always be considered one of the best all around players to ever play the game.As for Williams, he is the greatest left hand batter's to play.But he sure as hell could not do all the things JD on the field.This coming from some one, that seen both of them play many times.
Remember, Ted Williams last five years serving World War II & Korea.
What I wouldn't do to time travel into that room and just sit in the background and listen. Two of the best ever in the same room. Amazing
2 of the greatest of all time ...no doubt about it 🎰⚾️⚾️⚾️
To Both these Hall Of Famers Much Respect! ⚾️ 🤌🤌
Two greats
Ted Williams did not hold back
It's still mind-boggling DiMaggio hit 46 home runs playing half his games in Yankee Stadium 460 feet in left center!
Williams hit .388 at age 38. Crazy. Even at 41 hit hit .316. I'm not sure he was a better hitter than Ruth, or Joe D was a better all-around player than Mays, but one could certainly make an argument for it, in both cases.
If you look at career batting stats in terms of power, batting average and on base percentage, Ted Williams and Babe Ruth are pretty much out there by themselves in baseball history. And Ted Williams lost 3 full seasons in his prime (age 24, 25, 26) serving in WWII and parts of 2 seasons on active duty during the Korean War, or he would have hit well over 600 home runs.
Joe D made a hard catch look easy. Mays made an easy catch look hard. Joe was the better player and much more graceful on and off the field.
You're old enough to have seen DiMaggio play a lot of games in person, or is that just your conjecture?
Carlson 1990. False. Mays NEVER "made an easy catch look hard", that's utter horse manure. Mays threw and ran better than DiMaggio, and had better power, despite playing in San Francisco's notoriously chilly Candlestick Park.
Don. DiMaggio retired in 1951. This guy's a May's hater, because as great a player at DiMaggio was, May's was better - the best all-around player in the history of baseball, with the possible exception of Ruth.
What a year 1941 was ,Joe's streak and Ted hitting .406, here we are in 2017 and neither's been touched !
The records are not going to be beat because the game today is a goddamn joke with nothing but whining punks!
Those bums you mentioned would not make the minors in 1940. Carbrera and Trout would be bench warmers. The game today is a goddamn joke, along with their hair styles, the way they wear a uniform and the overall fat asses playing the game. Lazy fat asses.
Chris Buck neither streaks will ever be broken
@@Carlson-oy2ir
Shove it, you cranky bass turd.
@@Carlson-oy2ir
Button it, Carlton.
Or you'll find yourself with a bootupyourass.
Joe's 56 shows consistency BUT Ted outhit him by .004 during that stretch.
Ted hit .406 and didn't win the MVP. TWICE, Ted won the triple crown and didn't win the MVP. (All three times he lost to a NY Yankee.)
Sports writers never liked Williams.
2 class acts
Thanks for that download two of the greatest, and Ted a great favorite of mine as 406 hitting average for the season and JD 56 straight hits is something else!!!!
And Ted loved Tony Gwynn
There goes the greatest hitter of all time.
That 56 game hitting streak might be the most untouchable record in sports. 100 years from now it'll still stand.
Maybe so. I think Pete Rose came closest with a 44 gm streak in 1978. And no one has batted .400 since Ted Williams, so that one may never happen again. 2 of the greatest, on anyone's short list
Cy Young's 500+ career wins is the most unbreakable record in sports and top 3 is Ripken's consecutive games record
Glenn Hall, goalie, Blackhawks. 502 consecutive games played.
Yeah, but it's about the only record he holds. Let's face it, when it came down between these two, Joe couldn't carry Ted's jock.
A Baller, I'd take Joe's glove but the Rings are something Ted had no control over. Had the situations been reversed, I think the Yankees win the same number of Rings.
Where is the rest of this interview? Surely someone didn't get these 3 in the same room and then only let them talk for 5 minutes?
I wish these things weren't always done so quickly. I'd have loved to have heard Joe D detail his issues with Yankee Stadium.
I remember watching this interview as a kid in 1991. I had just turned 12, loved the Mets, had heard of Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams, but didn't know much about them. Ted hit .406 and Joe hit in 56 straight games. Cool... But start the All-Star game already, these are just some old baseball guys. If only I knew then what I'd come to learn later.
Two of the top 10 ten players of all time! Amazing conversation
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it seems mythological but at some point they were just kids who loved the game.. its fun to see the respect for each other
Dimaggio in almost 7000 at bats only struck out 368 times. amazing bat control. also no player has been more hurt in HR than Joe. old yankee stadium for right handers was impossible- 450 feet in left center field. 2/3 of Joes HR were in opposing parks. between ww2 and that he would have had well over 500. Joe doesn’t get enough credit for the greatest of all time these days but everyone when he was alive thought it was him.
Man! Ted Williams was such a class act. He forever kept up graciously saying Joe DiMaggio was the greatest living ballplayer, and Joe was elite, but there were guys like Mays, Aaron, Mantle, and Ted himself who were better than DiMaggio. He never condescended Joe's self-aggrandizing. I respect that.
I don't believe Ted is in the conversation for best all around player. He couldn't run and openly didn't even care about playing defense. Ted was not a better all around player than DiMaggio, Mantle or Mays.
Now hold on there...i say i say ...(rooster foghorn cartoon)...Ted did praise Willie Mays too.
....and the Flubs turned down Joe D.for $36,000(thanks P.K.)in 1935
@@username-zj9id And I don't think he'd argue with you. But as a hitter his only rival is Ruth. We don't know how Bonds would have compared because of the steroids, but he wasn't Williams or Ruth good before them. Damn good, though. Pity nature wasnt enough.
@@nicholasschroeder3678 Bonds would have been an all time great player without steroids. Now, he's taken himself out of the running in my opinion. Ruth is the best hitter of all time in my opinion, Williams is #2. Gehrig may have overtaken them both if not for his disease.
Two class guys!
Joe D and Ted would be on my all time team! I remember when Ted Williams came to my hometown and was the rep for Sears. He was using profanity and they told him to leave. LMAO
Id take Jimmie Foxx over both of them and I love both!!! Lou Gehrig too.
I'd take Mantle over DiMaggio (though my #1 pick for CF would be Mays)
Babe, Cobb, Aaron, Williams, Dimaggio, so many greats to choose from #Baseball
I have never seen this clip. Another awesome tribute to my namesake
great interview , wish it were longer
Thanks for the post
Ruth, Mays, T. Williams, DiMaggio, Mantle, Aaron, Gehrig are the greatest of all time. These last 25 years has produced some great ball players - Bonds, A Rod, Griffey Jr. Jr was the only one who did it w/out roads. But the one and only who brings back memories of the old timers all timers is the kid in Anaheim Mike Trout. Tell me otherwise No way
Trout is a Great Player. An All Time Great he IS
Two of the very greats.
Two class acts.....
Williams, a decorated USMC combat in both WWII and Korea, how many HRs would he have hit if he hadn’t lost those 4+ years.
I'm guessing he would have hit more than Ken Griffey Jr.
He also would have had over 3200 hits too.
What Joe says starting at 3:20 is everything. These guys today need to think of the fans first, but most of them don't get it. Without the fans, there is no MLB.
Joe always had Marilyn Monroe on his mind...he was madly in love and it consumed his life...every interview I see of him he seems to be in a deep train of thought and it’s really sad
Great players of baseball excel in the fundamentals. The only other thing that can improve that, is great running speed, which few players have.
Two points to remember. Willie Mays was better all-around than DiMaggio as Ted hinted at. Also, Joe's hitting streak was great, but the man never walked. Ted could never had a long hitting streak because he walked once or twice every game. DiMaggio only walked a bit over 300 times in his entire career.
BEAUTIFUL
There were apparently some secret talks between the Yankees and Red Sox about a DiMaggio for Williams trade in the late 40's. Can you imagine where the Yankees would have been with Williams playing alongside Mantle in Yankee Stadium for a decade or more? It would have served Boston right for all the crap their press dished out to Williams over the years, calling him, for example, "the doormat that others step on on the way to the Hall of Fame," and "not patriotic" because he dared to complain about being drafted for a second period of service in the Air Force flying prop fighters against jets in Korea? Forget 54 and 55, and probably even 57 and 59. The Yanks would have swept the fifties.
2 legends
A Yankee and a Red Sox showing each other great respect.
I wish I was a kid when these gents played baseball. It was a different game
On their own, wow. All three together at one time? Unreal and they do not make them like that anymore.....
I've got my hands over my mouth and ears wide open. Unbelievable
Ted WIlliams was world-class in three different areas: 1) Major League Baseball hitter; 2) US military fighter pilot marksmanship in two wars; 3) Deep sea fishing. Joe DiMaggio was world-class in three different areas as well: 1) Great all-around Major League Baseball player ; 2) Fantastic coffee pitchman; 3) Was married to Marilyn Monroe.
Wow. Praise.
amazing
Funny how Williams opens by talking about Joe being best right handed hitter. when they used to as DiMaggio about Williams he would say “best left handed hitter in baseball” - he wouldn’t say best hitter over himself. their rivalry was eternal.
Ted williams love that guy
This is so cool RIP to all three Was this during the World Series the interview?
That was aired before 1991 All star game....I remember watching that
Williams had a more impressive streak of getting on base over 80 games in row. Getting on base for every game for more than half a season and batting over .400 is more impressive than a 56 game hitting streak
The record for games reaching base safely (hits and walks) belongs to Ted Williams at 84, followed by Joe DiMaggio at 74 ... followed by Ted Williams at 73. This fact is little known, but is a more outstanding record that just "hits."
Ted also reached base 16 consecutive times!
I like 56 consecutive games with hits because they produce rbis and walks don’t. It’s a team game and not an individual one.
Heck, today if a player reaches 20 games they start talking about the 56 game hitting record. Rose’s run at it was the closest I remember in my life.
Ya gotta give props to Pete with 44games those pitchers did him dirty in that last game of the streak don't forget Paul Molitor and his 39 game hitting streak either
Gold
The Greatest. I would Love their stories.
56 game hitting streak vs .400
incredible
When Ted talks it's like all the lights and the surround sound go off at the same time
What I would give to have been a fly in the wall during that interview. Amazing.
you didn’t have to be a fly, it’s on youtube!
Ted Williams' secret to hitting: have zero respect for all pitchers
never looked at it like that, cool
“ I’ve always thought that the pictures were the dumbest part of a ball club.” Ted Williams.
My dad ran into Joe D and till this day i have his AUTOGRAPH
WOW
It's Ted.Make.a Move.!!!
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I did not see Joe DiMaggio play. I got to know of him well after his playing days. I have looked at his stats and have made a comparison to those of Willie Mays.
Mays Stats
H
its 3283
HR 660
BA .302
Runs Scored 2062
RBI 1903
SB 338
DiMaggio's Stats
AB
6821
Hits 2214
HR 361
BA .325
Runs Scored 1390
RBI 1537
SB 30
Joe DiMaggio put together the best 13 years of any player, maybe in history, but his numbers don't even come close to those of Willie Mays. As far as the outfield is concerned, I don't think Joe DiMaggio was better. It appears by the fielding numbers, they were roughly equal. The accounts are that DiMaggio was more graceful. Willie Mays was very graceful from what I recall of the 1960s.
Pure stats don't tell the whole of Joe's story. Dimaggio lost perhaps his 3 most prime seasons - ages 28-30 - to WW2. The war did that to a number of great players careers. Hank Greenberg lost 4 prime years, and was never able to return to form once he came back. Johnny Mize lost 3 prime seasons. And Williams? He lost 3 full season to WW2, and most of two other seasons due to service in Korea.
This being said, one reason Mays had such incredible stats is that his career was so long. He had an iron constitution and took great care of himself. Mays played in over 150 games for 13 consecutive seasons. Willie was productive right up to the age of 40, while Joe was finished at 36.
In the end, I'd have to say Mays had the most complete game. He stole a lot of bags, leading the NL 4 straight years in that department. Mays was the better HR hitter but to be fair to Joe, he played half his games in cavernous Yankee stadium. Somewhere in the interview, DiMaggio said that he loved being a Yankee, but wished he could have played in a stadium other than Yankee stadium. I'd love to have seen both in their primes. I saw Willie at the end of his career at Shea. Saw him just miss a HR twice.
@@freespeech4all757 Willie Mays lost two years of his playing time.
@@nrcg2317 True (more like a year and 120 games). The only difference is that he hadn't hit his stride yet; he didn't have his prime interrupted He was a young 23 when he returned and began his legend. That is a good point though.
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Willie Mays came back to hit 41 homeruns when he returned in 1953. Imagine how many homeruns he missed in those two years. Those two years represented between 70 and 80 homeruns. He would have surpassed Ruth in HRs.
I thought the original question was, who was the better center fielder? If you want to focus on a 13 year stretch that centers primarily on hitting, then that would be a different question, but still, Mays is a superior center fielder: faster, stronger, with a tremendous fielding range and arm. If I were to multiply by 3 DiMaggio's best year (1937) to account for his military service, he would still not surpass Mays in HRs and hits. Was DiMaggio a high standard? Yes. Was he the gold standard?? No, that honor belongs to Willie Mays. I will agree that DiMaggio's stride was interrupted by military service, but who's to know what would have really happened in either case had neither been absent from baseball? All we have are numbers, memories and all that was written of each player. The numbers speak volumes about Mays. One stops to think about any player's numbers for a moment, DiMaggio had 2214 hits. Hank Aaron had 2297 RBIs. OMG!! He had more runs batted in that DiMaggio had hits. Tremendous consistency!! It boggles the mind.
@@nrcg2317 Like Rodney Dangerfield said, you gotta have health. Guys like Aaron, Mays, Rose, Ryan, Henderson - guys who racked up great numbers for decades and simply had great constitutions are marvels indeed. I have a theory that players were more durable in the past because of they way they lived. When I was growing up in the 60s, I didn't sit around playing electronic games and staring into a smartphone. I went out a did stuff. I walked around town until I chanced upon a football, baseball or basketball game in progress, or I got some buddies together and we played.
As far as pitchers throwing 300+ innings and 30 complete games per season back in the day - that was another benefit to growing up back then. You were always throwing a ball. Baseball, football, rubber ball - whatever. If it was just you and 1 friend, you might get your glove and a ball and play catch and talk until you got bored or tired. It seems I was always throwing something - if it wasn't balls, it was rocks. When I got REALLY bored and no one was around, I would take a ball and just throw it against the back of our garage. You build up a ton of arm and shoulder strength that way. Kids just don't do that anymore.