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Eight samples of Ted Williams' DNA is missing, sending the crack Page 2 investigative staff to find the possible thief.

Williams was an excellent ballplayer as a child and later led his high school team to the state championships. He batted left-handed but threw right-handed, baseball’s most desirable combination. Williams was signed by a minor league team in the Pacific Coast League, and after several seasons in San Diego and Minneapolis he was brought up to the Red Sox major league team in 1939. He had a fine rookie season with a batting average of .327. His sophomore season in 1940 was more difficult. Although he batted .344 for the year, he was in something of a hitting slump in the early months. The cri...

share-square-1071792 From 0 to 99, Red Sox players have filled out jerseys with 90 different numbers over the years. You want a fun exercise? Pick the best player to wear every number in the club’s illustrious history. That’s what MLB.com has done below. 0: Brandon Phillips The only player in Red Sox history to wear No. 0, veteran infielder Phillips had a short run in Boston (one month) at the end of the 2018 season, but he contributed with a memorable two-run homer that fueled an epic 9-8 win in Atlanta. Boston had trailed by six runs in the eighth inning. 1: Bobby Doerr

The following article is part of Jay Jaffe’s ongoing look at the candidates on the BBWAA 2021 Hall of Fame ballot. Originally written for the 2013 election at SI.com, it has been updated to reflect recent voting results as well as additional research. For a detailed introduction to this year’s ballot, and other candidates in the series, use the tool above; an introduction to JAWS can be found here. For a tentative schedule, and a chance to fill out a Hall of Fame ballot for our crowdsourcing project, see here. All WAR figures refer to the Baseball-Reference version unless otherwise indica...

A Day That Will Live in Infamy: The Rest of the Story December 9, 2020 In my last column, I said I’d complete my series on higher education this week.  But with Monday being December 7, the 79 th anniversary of the “day that will live in infamy” – Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor – and this column being written Tuesday for publication Wednesday and Thursday, I’m postponing that piece to next week. The horrible Pearl Harbor attack was followed by many heroic actions.  I want to recall two of them.  As legendary radio and newspaper columnist Paul Harvey said: The rest...