On this day in 1941, Batting .399955, Ted Williams elects to play in a doubleheader against the A’s on the final day of the season rather than to back into the coveted .400 average because the number is rounded up.  Teddy Ballgame comes through by going 6-for-8 in the twin bill to finish the season with a .4057 mark which rounds up to .406. No one has hit .400 since. He could have sat out and hit .400 but he did things as he always did, like a man. He always wanted to be able to walk down the street and have people say “There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived’ He was just that. An American Original.