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Today in History

1941

By: Stephanie Kontra, Fall Editor and Reporter

September 28, 2015

Photo Credit: Photo via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Williams under the creative Commons License

On this day in history in 1941, the Boston Red Sox player, Ted Williams, plays a double-header against the Philadelphia Athletics and gets six hits in eight trips to the plate, to raise his batting average to .406 and become the first player since Bill Terry in 1930 to hit a .400 batting average.

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Stephanie Kontra, Fall Editor and Reporter

Stephanie Kontra is a junior at Colonia. This is her second year writing for The Declaration. She loves to read and write. Her favorite author is John Green. Kontra's favorite sport is swimming. She is a swimmer of 3 teams during the year and is a captain and coach of her summer team. Kontra wants to go to college in Washington D.C. and she wants to major in Elementary Education or Journalism & Communications.