Ted Williams stung by splinter of race

The great Ted Williams, it turns out, was Mexican-American. Not 100 percent, but enough to have given pause to the Boston Red Sox of the 1940s. The mother of baseball’s greatest hitter, May Venzor, was born of Mexican parentage in the border town of El Paso, Texas.

Although Williams wouldn’t dare publicize his maternal bloodline during his playing days, Beantown these days no longer shuns the Latino player. This is so especially given that the Red Sox won last year’s World Series championship with the help of the talents of such players as Pedro Martinez, David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez.

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