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Ted Williams was quite the cutey as a kid, no?
Ted was candid to a fault
An exclusive excerpt from Ben Bradlee, Jr.’s “The Kid”: Williams was high strung, filled with nervous energy, always biting his fingernails. Ted’s friends found him candid to a fault, unvarnished. If he didn’t like someone, he would tell him so, to his face, rather than gossip behind his back. “I don’t care for you, fellah,” he might say.
(PHOTO: Young Ted Williams. May Williams Collection.)
Another day another show. On Brattle Street. Sunday morning. Shhh!
Ted declines Harvard’s offer
Exclusive excerpt from Ben Bradlee, Jr.’s “The Kid”: Unlike many professional ballplayers—probably most of them—Ted was embarrassed that he never went to college, or had no formal education beyond high school. In 1991, on the 50th anniversary of his .406 year, Harvard University wanted to give him an honorary degree, but he turned it down, feeling that he would have been out of place among the intelligentsia in Harvard Yard.
(PHOTO: Ted Williams at Boston’s Back Bay station, April 1939, arriving in the city for the first time. Boston Globe photograph.)
The New York Times Sunday Book Review
The Splendid Splinter
‘The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams,’ by Ben Bradlee Jr.
Charles McGrath in the New York Times Sunday Book Review calls “The Kid” “a hard-to-put-down account of a fascinating American life.” More from The Times: “The people at the Alcor cryonics facility, in Scottsdale, Ariz., would have us believe that Ted Williams really is immortal. They have his body there, the head severed from the rest, flash-frozen in a giant thermos-like tank and awaiting only the scientific advancement that will allow him to be thawed, resuscitated and rejuvenated.”
LL Bean Knots? Not? Yet! I can Knot!
This might be the best thing I’ve seen in a while: A reply from CEO of J.P. Morgan to a pretty girl seeking a rich husband A young and pretty lady posted this on a popular forum: Title: What should I do to marry a rich guy? I’m going to be honest of what I’m going to say here. I’m 25...
#sNOw on the neighbor's wood pile from my office window. #tooearly #footballweather
Why wait in line @ #bea15 - and have to carry another book - when you can shop local @BrooklineBooksmith for #PaoloBacigalupi #books #bookexpo #fiction @aaknopf
I apologize in advance for this bird slaughter. #chevy #bird #CrackerBarrel parking lot
Just some musings and electronic gatherings of an ink-stained wretch turned social media junkie. As JADAL says: No trees were destroyed in the sending of this organic message. I do concede, however, a significant number of electrons may have been inconvenienced.
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