According to On This Day in Baseball History: A Day-by-Day Account of Baseball’s Most Indelible Moments:
Despite winning the Triple Crown, Boston Red Sox slugger Ted Williams falls short in American League MVP voting, finishing 21 points behind second baseman Joe Gordon of the New York Yankees.
There are too many books about Williams to list here, so I’ll just go with a couple of my favorites.
- Ted Williams: The Biography of an American Hero, by Leigh Montville
- The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams, by Ben Bradlee Jr.











