Reply to "Ted Williams in Full."

justbaseball10,000+ posts

Its presented as a matter of opinion...Bob Feller's opinion mostly. Bob says he doesn't think Williams was a draft dodger. Williams played one more year due to a legal exception (sole provider for his mother...although he hadn't seen her in a couple of years). He then joined and served out the war as a flight instructor after that season.

And then he flew combat in Korea as mentioned.

Yes, he was called a "draft dodger" by some at the time...the label has stuck in some circles...but I think looking at it with no bias (I don't have any), it seems untrue to me.

7/23/0911:48 AM

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