Photo gallery: A career remembered

Williams, Citrus had tight ties
His warm relationship with Citrus County began around 1950 and grew strong through the years.

Passing of famed No. 9 hits county hard
Though friends and fans knew Ted Williams' health had been fading, his death shocks members of the local baseball community.

Citrus loses a star that still drew a crowd
For decades, Ted Williams attracted fans and fellow New Englanders to visit and live in the county he made his home.

Fans and neighbors recall baseball great
CITRUS HILLS -- A flag lowered to half staff outside the Ted Williams Museum and Hitters Hall of Fame on Friday marked the passing of the baseball legend who lived a few blocks away.

As a Marine, Ted Williams was 'revered'
CITRUS HILLS -- Few men are honored by a visit by a former president as Ted Williams was on Feb. 9, 1995. But something even more rare occurred that morning.

Hubert Mizell
One of a kind
There won't be another Ted Williams. He was to hitting a baseball what Albert Einstein was to solutions in math. Number Nine knew as much about constructing a swing as Frank Lloyd Wright did about building a house. His works should be eternal study for succeeding generations, not unlike those of Van Gogh and Michelangelo.

'There goes the greatest hitter'
They called him The Kid, Teddy Ballgame and the Splendid Splinter, but Ted Williams, who died Friday (July 5, 2002) at age 83, wanted to be known as only one thing:

Williams' proudest moment came in the military
Ted Williams' career statistics rank near the top of the baseball charts, but his totals might have been even more spectacular had it not been for nearly five years of military service.

Williams recalled with praise
This was the relationship one of baseball's greatest hitters -- perhaps the greatest -- had with the game's sportswriters of his era: