Don Lee and Thornton Lee.(father and son baseball pitchers)

National Pastime, The, January, 2002 by Nowlin, Bill

There's a well-known baseball trivia question: What father-and-son

pitching combination both gave up a home run to the same batter? The batter was Ted Williams and the pitchers were Thornton Lee and his son Don Lee. Thornton Lee surrendered Ted's 28th home run on September 17, 1939 and Don yielded home run #517 on September 2, 1960--right near the tail end of Ted's last year.

Wouldn't it have been something if Don, in turn, had a son and he'd faced Ted sometime in batting practice or a spring training workout? Or gone up against Ted's son John Henry, when the younger Williams was giving baseball a shot? Well, Don did have a son--and his name was Bill Lee!

No, not the Bill Lee who pitched for Boston. Wouldn't that have been a story itself!...

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