Ted Williams approached hitting a baseball as a physics problem. He divided the strike zone into seventy-seven cells, calculated the probability of getting a hit in each one, and refused to swing at anything outside his optimal zones. He lost five years of his prime to military service and still finished with a .344 lifetime average.

This episode follows Williams from his San Diego childhood through his combat missions in two wars, his obsessive pursuit of batting perfection, and the bizarre cryonics controversy that followed his death.

• He is the last player to hit .400 in a season, finishing at .406 in 1941
• He lost nearly five full seasons to military service in World War II and the Korean War
• He flew combat missions as a Marine pilot alongside John Glenn in Korea
• His body was cryogenically preserved after his death, sparking a bitter family dispute