FILE - In this 1953 file photo, Capt. Ted Williams, former Boston Red Sox slugger, poses atop an airplane at a Marine air base in Korea after he crash landed his thunder jet at an advance airbase Feb. 15, 1953, on his first combat mission over North Korea against enemy targets. Thirty-eight letters from Williams to his girlfriend at the time are going to be auctioned on Jan. 3, 2018, at Saco River Auction in Biddeford, Maine. (AP Photo/Fred Waters, File)