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Ted Williams : reflections on a splendid life / edited by Lawrence Baldassaro.
Van Pelt Library GV865.W5 T439 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Sportstown series
- The Sportstown series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Williams, Ted, 1918-2002.
- Williams, Ted.
- Baseball players--United States--Biography.
- Baseball players.
- United States.
- Boston Red Sox (Baseball team).
- Boston Red Sox (Baseball Team).
- Local Subjects:
- Williams, Ted.
- Boston Red Sox (Baseball Team).
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxxv, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Northeastern University Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- The best writing by celebrated sports writers and best-selling authors about the "greatest hitter who ever lived" from his rookie year in 1939 to the memorial tributes following his death in 2002.
- Contents:
- The Kid's Last Game / Ed Linn 3
- Williams Case Grand Lesson / Bill Cunningham 30
- As a Soph / Joe Williams 35
- Ted Williams Blasts Boston / Austen Lake 38
- Williams' Head Start / Bill Bryson 42
- The "Why" of Ted Williams / Bob Considine 47
- Two Guys Named Ted Williams / Ed Fitzgerald 51
- Why We Pick on Ted Williams / Harold Kaese 83
- Ted Undeserving of Fans' Tribute / Dave Egan 90
- Handsome Bad Boy of the Boston Red Sox / Al Hirschberg 93
- Ted Is Hope / Robert Creamer 108
- Ted Williams Spits / Red Smith 113
- Sidetracked Again / Arthur Daley 117
- How Ted Williams Became Popular / Mike Gillooly 121
- Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu / John Updike 131
- Hall of Fame Induction Speech / Ted Williams 147
- "Saint" Goes Marching In / Bud Collins 149
- The Batter / Jimmy Cannon 152
- Going Fishing with The Kid / John Underwood 155
- The Kid Comes Back / Robert Lipsyte 171
- Islamorada, Miramichi, Bangor, and Winter Haven / Thomas Boswell 174
- The Necessary Shape of the Old-Timers' Game / Donald Hall 178
- Williams: The Slugging Professor / Ira Berkow 182
- Ted Williams / John Updike 186
- An Evening with The Kid / Ira Berkow 190
- Achieving the Impossible Dream: Ted Williams and .406 / Stephen Jay Gould 193
- From .400 to 75, but Still Battling / Dave Anderson 201
- Gods Do Answer Letters / Lawrence Baldassaro 208
- A Familiar Idol Talks about His "Idol in Life" / Dave Anderson 213
- Williams Is the Star Attraction among All the Assembled Talent / Dan Shaughnessy 217
- Williams an Unquestioned Hit with Him / Peter Gammons 225
- The 20th Century Is Now Officially Over / Steve Buckley 229
- The Perfectionist at the Plate / David Halberstam 232
- Splendid Tribute: Memories of Williams Fill Fenway / Gordon Edes 235
- Personal Remembrances: Memories of Ted Gathered at the 2002 All-Star Game 241
- Epilogue: My Last Visit with Ted / Lawrence Baldassard 246.
- ISBN:
- 155553550X
- OCLC:
- 51020385
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