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[QUOTE="Toga, post: 3025871, member: 365"]
That's right, Teddy Ballgame once flipped off the Fenway Faithful. In fact, he pulled it off in both ends of a doubleheader. In the first game of a 1950 twin bill, the Tigers were on their way to a 13-4 blowout win when Williams dropped a routine fly ball. The fans let him have it. Ben Bradlee Jr. tells the story in "The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams":

[I]Piqued, the Kid extended the middle finger of each hand and gave the paying customers what for.[/I]

In the second game, with the Sox leading 2-0, Detroit had the bases loaded with two out in the eighth when Vic Wertz hit a sharp grounder into left field. Ted charged the ball, trying to keep the tying run from scoring, but it took a bad hop, skidded past him and rolled all the way to the wall. All three runners scored, and at the end of the inning, the crowd of 27,758 jeered Williams mercilessly as he ran off the field. Ted responded by again extending his finger to the fans, this time in three separate dramatic gestures to different sections of the park.

Teammate Walt Dropo said Williams even saluted his friends in the press box. As he stood on deck and the boos continued, Williams "turned around and spat contemptuously at the crowd." After the game, Williams -- unlike Collins -- didn't apologize. The fans, "they can -- themselves, and you can quote me in all the papers," Williams said. Ted Williams, everyone!
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