My weird little Ted Williams story - there was a lovely young lady I knew in college who was in the close, but still firmly in the friend zone. I don't remember how the subject of Ted Williams came up, but she, a proper young Southern lady, all but spit on the ground. Her father (since passed away) was Boston Red Sox pitcher Willard Nixon. As his daughter put it, "he pitched maybe his finest ball game ever against the New York Yankees, but all the papers could talk about was Ted Williams spitting at people who booed him."