Ted Williams unveils a highway sign at a ceremony that dedicated a section of Route 9 to him in Natick, Mass., on June 16, 1988. Williams, the Boston Red Sox's revered and sometimes reviled "Splendid Splinter" and baseball's last .400 hitter, died Friday, July 5, 2002, of cardiac arrest at
Citrus County Memorial Hospital in Inverness, Fla., said hospital spokeswoman Rebecca Martin. He was 83. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, file)