 Hornsby told Williams useful advice, including to "get a good pitch to hit".Talking with the game's greats would become a pattern for Williams, who talked with Hugh Duffy who hit .438 in 1894, Bill Terry who hit .401 in 1930, and Ty Cobb against whom he would argue that a batter should hit up on the ball, opposed to Cobb's view that a batter should hit down on the ball.While in Minnesota, Williams quickly became the team's star.