Ted Williams: career v. righty/lefty pitchers.

baseball-fever.com has Ted Williams stats against lefty pitchers at this link.

I used that data here at my own link to figure stats for Williams against righty pitchers and to further enhance the data, including the creation of graphs.  Here are totals for Williams.

lefties (2,046 PA: 21%):
BA  OBP SLG  OPS  HR/AB
0.311 0.434 0.492 0.926 0.0382 Ave
0.218 0.338 0.318 0.666 0 Min
0.420 0.514 0.691 1.129 0.0781 Max

righties (7,720 PA: 79%):
BA  OBP SLG  OPS  HR/AB
0.354 0.496 0.673 1.169 0.0758    Ave
0.263 0.388 0.442 0.831 0.0399    Min
0.425 0.561 1.000 1.528 0.1781    Max

all:
BA  OBP SLG  OPS  HR/AB
0.344 0.482 0.634 1.116 0.0676    Ave
0.254 0.377 0.419 0.796 0.0368    Min
0.407 0.553 0.901 1.410 0.1429    Max

BA  OBP SLG  OPS  HR/AB
0.311 0.434 0.492 0.926 0.038 L
0.354 0.496 0.673 1.169 0.076 R
0.043 0.062 0.182 0.243 0.038 Difference
12.20% 12.43% 26.97% 20.81% 49.54% Difference/R

Ted Williams started playing for the Boston Red Sox in 1939 and his last season was 1960.  In 1961 the American League expanded from eight to ten teams and increased the schedule from 154 to 162 games.

Maybe Williams should have switch hit.  I recently posted a link to a video showing Williams fly fishing right handed.