About this title: Filled with historical details and firsthand accounts, this moving story focuses on four baseball greats--Bobby Doerr, Dominic DiMaggio, Johnny Pesky and Ted Williams--whose 60-year friendship saw them through the transition from sports icons to men dealing with growing old.
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Hyperion Books
Date published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780786888672ISBN:0786888679
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. No flaws with this title. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 217 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Hyperion
Date published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780786888672ISBN:0786888679
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Hyperion
Date published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780786888672ISBN:0786888679
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Hyperion
Date published: 2004-05-05
ISBN-13:9780786888672ISBN:0786888679
Description: Like New. May be shiny, in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, no damage to binding, may have a remainder mark. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Hyperion
Date published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780786888672ISBN:0786888679
Description: Good. Book shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear and the pages have only minimal creases. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Hyperion
Date published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780786888672ISBN:0786888679
Description: Good. Book shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear and the pages have only minimal creases. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Hyperion
Date published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780786888672ISBN:0786888679
Description: Good. Book shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear and the pages have only minimal creases. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Hyperion
Date published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780786888672ISBN:0786888679
Description: Good. Book shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear and the pages have only minimal creases. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Hyperion
Date published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780786888672ISBN:0786888679
Description: Good. Book shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear and the pages have only minimal creases. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Hyperion
Date published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780786888672ISBN:0786888679
Description: Good. Book shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear and the pages have only minimal creases. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Hyperion
Date published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780786888672ISBN:0786888679
Description: Good. Book shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear and the pages have only minimal creases. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Hyperion
Date published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780786888672ISBN:0786888679
Description: Good. Only lightly used. Book has minimal wear to cover and binding. A few pages may have small creases and minimal underlining. Book selection as BIG as Texas. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Hyperion
Date published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780786888672ISBN:0786888679
Description: Good. Only lightly used. Book has minimal wear to cover and binding. A few pages may have small creases and minimal underlining. Book selection as BIG as Texas. 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?
"A little book that practically defines "elegiac." The story of four baseball old-timers (admittedly a relative term...these guys played during the 1940s and early 50s) and their friendship as they come to grips with old age. These are four exceptional men with a very touching devotion to one another, culminating with the death of the most famous among them -- baseball legend Ted Williams.
Admittedly, I would not have picked this up without the late, great David Halberstam's name on it. Along with Studs Terkel, Halberstam was one of our greatest listeners. Think of it as a less sentimental "Tueday Afternoons with Morrie" (but it's actually much better than that)."
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