Two for Ted

Boston's Ted Williams, one of baseball's most talented and temperamental stars, stirred up a storm last week without moving a muscle. All he did was to win (for the second time in his career) the American League's award as Most Valuable Player of the year. Boston was pleased, but Manhattan sportwriters erupted with such comments as "greatest farce ever perpetrated in sports in the guise of an official poll." They wanted to know why the award, voted by the Baseball Writers' Association, had not gone to somebody on the pennant-winning New York Yankees, e.g., Shortstop Phil Rizzuto or Relief Pitcher Joe Page. One reason: the voting took place a few days before the end of the season, before the collapse of the Red Sox and Slugger Williams in their final series with the Yankees.

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