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Peace

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Ted Williams hit .406 in 1941. Won the Triple Crown in 1942. Then he left to fly fighter planes for three years.
When he came back in 1946, he won the MVP. Won another Triple Crown in 1947. Kept hitting like he'd never left. Then in 1952, the Marines called him back to Korea, where he flew 39 combat missions and once crash-landed a burning jet. He came back from that, too. Hit .407 in the 37 games he played in 1953.
Five full seasons, gone. Ages 24 through 26. Ages 33 and 34. Not injured. Not suspended. Not holding out. Serving his country while every other hitter in baseball was padding their numbers against wartime pitching staffs.
521 home runs with nearly five years carved out of his prime. The projections say 650, maybe 700, maybe more. The RBI totals land somewhere no one has ever been. And the man never once complained about what it cost him.
 
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