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He just had amazing natural talent.
 
His relationship with Boston always fascinated me as well.  I lived there for about 8 years near the end of his life.  There was this love/reverance of how great a player he was.  The city even named the tunnel to the airport after him.  However, they did a terrible job constructing the tunnel, so there always were repairs being made.  That may be how they do public construction in Massachusetts - never do the job right so there always is a job to be done.
 
At the same time, whenever there was an article about him in the Globe or Herald, the journalists couldn't help but mention how much Williams didn't get along with the media.  It didn't matter if the story was about his declining health or reminiscing about how fantastic a baseball player he was.  I also never heard any locals say anything bad about Williams - it was always positive and the journalists were (insert long streams of inappropriate language).