Of course. But, is anyone, hero or not, completely selfless? You can do good, and still get a rush from it in some form or fashion.
you have a point.
My pointy head? That’s mean! 
No one knows where you are pointy on the internet.
I am going to beg to differ with that. He guided the 1969 Washington Senators to their first winning season since 1952.
There’s a fair bit about Williams as manager in the Leigh Montville biography. Some of his players talk about how he would give hitting advice that wasn’t very useful to those without his preternatural abilities. And how Williams would become angry when players failed to notice or act on subtleties that he perceived in the game.
My sense of it was Williams knew baseball, obviously, and could do a workman-like job as manager. But he clearly had problems relating to his players, and I think found them somewhat frustrating.
In Moneyball, Michael Lewis talks about Jim Rice very similarly. He was an amazing, natural hitter, and seemed to expect players to do things the way he did. Didn’t always work out well. It seems that many of the better coaches in baseball were middling players themselves, perhaps because they had to work at it and didn’t possess innate ability.
When asked for his approach to hitting, Joe DiMaggio * was dismissive, and if pushed he’d say something like, “I see the f**ing ball and I hit it.” Nothing wrong with that, unless you intend to be a coach, manager or teacher. DiMaggio had procedural knowledge of hitting, but maybe not declarative. Williams knew exactly what he was doing, could explain it, and wrote a book about it. But I think he lacked the interpersonal skills to be a great manager, and got lost in the great detail he knew about hitting.
- DiMaggio is an anti-hero to me. He was apparently such a terrible person that it cancels out his greatness on the field.
That is all very interesting, but if you grew up a Senators fan like I did, we were very glad to have him.
I think that’s it exactly. He just sucked at dealing with people. He would much rather be fishing. But he wasn’t just a great natural hitter, he studied it. Players still use his book.
A couple of other things about this complex man. His military service is pointed to a lot and he’s seen as a hero. What is lost in the mists of time is how he actively fought serving in WWII. He thought baseball more important than…well everything but especially fighting Nazis. At a time when the country was pulling together to do their part it wasn’t a popular position and he got a lot of flak for it at the time. He did not see combat during WWII but did in Korea (which he also tried to get out of so he could play).
He was also half Mexican (his mother) and he purposely kept his heritage secret.