BASEBALL PLAYER

Ted Williams

1918 - 2002

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Theodore Samuel Williams (August 30, 1918 – July 5, 2002) was an American professional baseball player and manager. He played his entire 19-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career, primarily as a left fielder, for the Boston Red Sox from 1939 to 1960; his career was interrupted by military service during World War II and the Korean War. Nicknamed "Teddy Ballgame", "the Kid", "the Splendid Splinter", and "the Thumper", Williams is regarded as one of the greatest hitters in baseball history and to date is the last player to hit over .400 in a season. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ted Williams has received more than 5,854,712 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Ted Williams is the 11th most popular baseball player (down from 8th in 2019), the 3,891st most popular biography from United States (down from 2,931st in 2019) and the 10th most popular American Baseball Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 5.9M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.73

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.09

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Ted Williams by language

Over the past year Ted Williams has had the most page views in the with 762,082 views, followed by Japanese (102,086), and Spanish (30,903). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Russian (117.51%), Korean (93.93%), and Italian (92.27%)

Among BASEBALL PLAYERS

Among baseball players, Ted Williams ranks 11 out of 91. Before him are Lou Gehrig, Hank Aaron, Cy Young, Reggie Jackson, Alexander Cartwright, and Ty Cobb. After him are Ichiro Suzuki, Roberto Clemente, Mickey Mantle, Barry Bonds, Willie Mays, and Yogi Berra.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Ted Williams ranks 139. Before him are James Aldridge, Cheddi Jagan, Ján Kadár, Jerome Robbins, Jelle Zijlstra, and Suzanne Flon. After him are Bruno Zevi, Jay Wright Forrester, Kazuo Sakamaki, Anatoly Tarasov, Georgios Rallis, and María Mercader. Among people deceased in 2002, Ted Williams ranks 138. Before him are Yves Robert, Leo McKern, Ernst Stojaspal, Aileen Riggin, Ibn al-Khattab, and Yevgeny Svetlanov. After him are B. D. Jatti, Ramón Grosso, Vitaly Solomin, Arno Peters, Jean-Paul Riopelle, and Masakatsu Miyamoto.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ted Williams ranks 3,891 out of 20,380. Before him are Greg Kinnear (1963), Ira Sprague Bowen (1898), William Stewart Halsted (1852), Paul Reiser (1957), John Marley (1907), and Donald P. Bellisario (1935). After him are Lenny Bruce (1925), Peter Lamborn Wilson (1945), Jay Wright Forrester (1918), John Garfield (1913), Edward Feigenbaum (1936), and Leslie Jones (1967).

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Among BASEBALL PLAYERS In United States

Among baseball players born in United States, Ted Williams ranks 10. Before him are Lou Gehrig (1903), Hank Aaron (1934), Cy Young (1867), Reggie Jackson (1946), Alexander Cartwright (1820), and Ty Cobb (1886). After him are Mickey Mantle (1931), Barry Bonds (1964), Willie Mays (1931), Yogi Berra (1925), Sandy Koufax (1935), and Nolan Ryan (1947).

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