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Author Bradlee, Ben.

Title The kid : the immortal life of Ted Williams / Ben Bradlee, Jr.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Little, Brown, and Company, 2013.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  92 WILLIAMS    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY WILLIAMS    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  B WILLIAMS, TED    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Non Fiction  B WILLIAMS    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  B WILLIAMS    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  BIO WILLIAMS    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  B WILLIAMS    Check Shelf
 East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Adult Department  B WILLIAMS, T. BRA    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Biographies  B WILLIAMS    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Barney Branch - Adult Department  796.357 BRA    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description viii, 855 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [801]-831) and index.
Contents Shame -- "Fairyland" -- Sarasota and Minneapolis -- Big time -- The writers -- .406 -- 3A -- World War II -- 1946 -- 1947-1948 -- 1949-1951 -- Ted and Joe -- Korea -- Transitions -- 1954-1956 -- Late innings -- Last ups -- Kindness -- Real life -- Bobby-Jo -- "Inn of the Immortals" -- Dolores -- The splendid skipper -- Young John-Henry and Claudia -- The fishing life -- Being Ted Williams -- Enter John-Henry -- Ted failing -- Hitter.net -- Spiraling -- Alcor -- Foreboding -- July 5, 2002 -- The pact -- Ted Williams's lifetime statistics -- People who were interviewed for "The kid."
Summary Ted Williams was the best hitter in baseball history. His batting average of .406 in 1941 has not been topped since, and no player who has hit more than five hundred home runs has a higher career batting average. Those totals would have been even higher if Williams had not left baseball for nearly five years in the prime of his career to serve as a Marine pilot in World War II and Korea. He hit home runs farther than any player before him, and traveled a long way himself, as this biography reveals. Born in 1918 in San Diego, Ted would spend most of his life disguising his Mexican heritage. During his twenty-two years with the Boston Red Sox, Williams electrified crowds across America, and shocked them, too. His notorious clashes with the press and fans threatened his reputation. Yet while he was a god in the batter's box, he was profoundly human once he stepped away from the plate. His ferocity came to define his troubled domestic life. While baseball might have been straightforward for Ted Williams, life was not.
Subject Williams, Ted, 1918-2002.
Baseball players -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN 9780316614351: $35.00
0316614351
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