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baseball trivia : who is the only player to be a teamate(player) of both babe ruth and ted williams

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John,

  In fact there were two players who were teammates of both Ruth and Williams:

 --Johnny Murphy, a pitcher who with with Ruth on the 1932 Yankees and Williams on the 1947 Red Sox

 --Joe Glenn, a backup catcher with Ruth on the 1932 Yankees and Williams on the 1940 Red Sox.

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