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Even hitting a home run in his final at-bat in a professional baseball game didn't prompt Ted Williams to tip his cap to the Fenway faithful.
After an eighth-inning home run off Baltimore's Jack Fisher on Sept. 28, "the Kid" crossed home plate with his head down and made his way back into the dugout. It was his 521st career home run. Williams also drew his 2,000th career walk in the 1960 campaign.
Four days prior to his final at-bat, Williams stood on the field with the Archbishop of Boston, Richard Cushing, and was honored for his efforts in fighting childhood cancer on Jimmy Fund day.
The Red Sox made history of their own in '60. A year after integrating, Boston played two spring training games in New Orleans against the Cleveland Indians, desegregating baseball in that city. The team finished seventh in the American League (65-89), however, 32 games behind New York.
Tom Yawkey squashed rumors of the potential sale of the team in 1960. Williams' took a 30 percent pay cut heading into the season, which allowed Yawkey to save a little money.
In August, a four-day Bible research and training assembly was led by a group of Jehovah's Witnesses at Fenway. The final day of the assembly was attended by 28,468 people.
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