Ted Williams Net Worth

Theodore Samuel “Ted” Williams was born on the 30th August 1918, in San Diego, California USA, and died on the 5th July 2002 in Inverness, Florida, USA. He was a professional baseball player and manager, a Hall of Famer, a seventeen-time All-Star, and one of the greatest hitters in the history of the game. Williams spent his whole career as a left fielder with Boston Red Sox from 1939 to 1942, and from 1946 to 1960. Playing in the MLB for nearly twenty years significantly increased his net worth. Williams’ career started in 1939 and ended in 1972.
Have you ever wondered how rich Ted Williams was. as estimated in mid-2016? According to the authoritative source, it has been estimated that Williams’ net worth is $5 million. In addition to playing baseball at the professional level, Williams was also a manager in Washington Senators/Texas Rangers from 1969 to 1972 which considerably improved his wealth.

Ted Williams Net Worth $5 Million

Ted Williams was the son of May Venzor, an evangelist and a soldier in the Salvation Army, and Samuel Stuart Williams, a soldier, sheriff, and photographer. His uncle, Saul Venzor, a former semi-professional, taught Williams how to throw a baseball at the age of eight. Teddy, who was named after President Theodore Roosevelt, attended the Herbert Hoover High School in San Diego, and starred as a pitcher on the baseball team, where his was excellence saw him receive offers from New York Yankees and St. Louis Cardinals, but his mother decided that it was best to stay at home for the moment, so he joined the local minnows – the San Diego Padres.
After one season, Ted William moved to the Boston Red Sox, debuting in April 1939, against arch rivals the New York Yankees, and subsequently excelled in his first season in the MLB, and although there wasn’t a Rookie of the Year Award at the time, Babe Ruth said that Williams was his favorite rookie of the season. He was paid $5,000 in his debut year, and his salary doubled the following year. In 1940, he appeared in the All-Star game for the first time, and in 1941 Williams hit one of the longest home runs in history, estimates saying that it went for 183 meters.
WWII was raging, and Ted was drafted into the Navy Reserve, and went on active duty in May 1943. He became a Lieutenant and was sent to Pearl Harbor after the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Williams played baseball in the Army League at the time along with Joe DiMaggio, Joe Gordon, and Stan Musial.
After the war, Ted joined Boston again, and signed a $37,500 contract. Ted was offered $300,000 for a three-year contract to play in the Mexican League but refused, and signed a new one-year $70,000 deal with the Red Sox in 1947. In 1952, Williams was called to serve in Korean War, and although he hadn’t flown for eight years, he joined the US Marines and served for three years.
Following his return, Ted played another five years, leading the batting titles in three years, and actually hitting a home run with his last time-at-bat in 1960. He became only one of 29 baseball players to appear in four decades in the MLB, and one of four players to hit a home-run in four decades.
Regarding his personal life, Ted Williams married Doris Soule in 1944 and they divorced in 1954; they had a daughter named Barbara Joyce, born in 1948. He later married Lee Howard in 1961, but they divorced in 1967. Williams’ third wife was Dolores Wettach, a former Miss of Vermont and a model in Vogue. They married in 1968 but divorced in 1972; he had a son and a daughter with her. Ted decided not to marry again, and instead lived with Louise Kaufman for twenty years until she died in 1993. Williams suffered from cardiomyopathy, and after a series of strokes, he died of heart failure in 2002, aged 83.