About this title: Acclaimed historian Halberstam examines here the story of four friends and fellow ball players: Ted Williams, Dominic DiMaggio, Johnny Pesky, and Bobby Doerr. THE TEAMMATES tells of their friendship during their playing days with an eye to fine detail, and continues on through to their retired lives off the diamond.
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Description: Very Good. 140130057X Copy has been read but remains in nice & clean condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or high-lighting. Spine is tight; a clean read. Shelf wear to the cover. read more
Description: New York: Hyperion 2003 First Edition 1st printing 217 pages, 6 x 8 1/2, hardcover in dust jacket CONDITION: FINE, an excellent copy, fine condition in fine dj NOTES-Boston Red Sox-story of four teammates, Ted Williams, Johnny Pesky, Bobby Doerr & Dominic DiMaggio. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Hyperion Books
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9781401300579ISBN:140130057X
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Hard Cover-VG/VG-Book and dust jacket are clean and tight-First Edition with full number strain-Original price of 22.95 still present-217 pages. read more
"I like this book a lot. Great insight into Ted Williams. There's a priceless exchange between Ted Williams and Carl Yastrzemski. If you love the Sox, you'll love this book."
"A touching look at the lifelong friendship of four men, culminating in an emotional last visit to the home of the dying hero, Ted Williams.
It was a quick read, and pleasant. I found that it lacked some emotional depth for me, and that the entirety of this book was covered with more inclusion of detail by Ted Williams' biographer Leigh Montville.
All in all, a good read, but I point anyone interested in this to Montville."
"Sports just aren't what they used to be, are they? Or maybe...it's the athletes. I supposed the game itself doesn't change. It's the people. Striving to be bigger, better, stronger in order to be given the most money, right?
This book...at least let's readers of my generation know that at one point sport had more dignity. It was a way out, but you didn't make millions. You played because you loved it. I'm sure there's a story of this nature on nearly every team of the time period...but then the Red Sox always have that mystique... especially Ted Williams, who was a grumpy old curmudgeon who couldn't be wrong. And only so many people had the juevos to tell him so. Bobby Doerr was one of those. In fact, I honestly believe that without Doerr, Williams would still be an amazing hitter...but I'm not sure he'd be THE best lefty to ever grace the field.
The story is about the eternal teammates, Bobby Doerr, Ted Williams, Dom Dimaggio and Johnny Pesky...it flashes to their beginnings in life and baseball and how it brought them together and back to a roadtrip that DiMagggio & Pesky took to visit Williams in his last days.
They didn't really have money, but they had heart. And Boston loved them...still does. Those men are eternal in Red Sox fans' hearts...they lived and breathed for that uniform. And now we have players that beg to be traded bc they don't like the media or want a bigger contract. Yes, it's the way of the world, it's a business, but sometimes some of us just like to read about a time when all that mattered was putting on that jersey everyday for the city that loves you.
Best story in it? A young rookie pitcher in his first outing was able to strike out the one and only Ted Williams. So what does the kid do after but ask Williams to sign the ball? (Wicked smaht kid) Luckily Williams doesn't snap his neck in half and does sign it. Next time up against the same kid Williams launched a home run ball that still hasn't landed...and while running around the bases Williams yells at the kid "If you can ever find that ball, I'll sign that son of a bitch too!" Classic.
That said, Williams had a filthy mouth...makes me like him even more. A man before my own potty-mouthed heart. And Pesky? What can you say more about that man? he deserves to be buried in Fenway Park. And for you bitches that said he held the ball? You don't know that man and what the Red Sox mean to him. Dom DiMaggio? You may have heard of his brother Joe...Joe wasn't too bad. He was no Dom though. =) And Bobby Doerr...the man who's patience were what calmed Ted Williams foul temper and made sure to show him the better parts of life? All men that have become a rarity in the world...and you want to know why?
"What a great disappointment! When I picked up this book I thought "Great writer and great ballplayers/people, how can I go wrong.?" Book was very dull- almost as if Halberstram was squeezing this one in between his other books that are classics. Sorry, but this one is a stinker."
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