Ted Williams and Friends: 1960-2002 (Images of Modern by Dick Trust PDF

By Dick Trust

Ted Williams capped a storybook baseball profession with a storybook finishing, hitting a house run in his final at bat within the significant leagues. That blast, on a dreary September 28, 1960, at Boston's Fenway Park, ushered in a post-playing occupation in which the pink Sox legend may turn into a first-ballot corridor of Famer simply six years later. in the course of his retirement, he maintained his longtime lively information of the Jimmy Fund in its struggle opposed to melanoma, inspired kids at his Ted Williams Baseball Camp, and coached present and destiny monstrous leaguers in purple Sox spring education. In 1969, he was once named American League supervisor of the yr; in 1991, he obtained a Presidential Medal of Freedom from George H.W. Bush; and in 1995, a Boston tunnel was once devoted in his honor. in a single of his final appearances, Ted joined fellow nominees for baseball's All-Century crew on the 1999 All-Star video game at Fenway Park--creating an iconic, lasting photo of the fellow often called "The Kid," the "Splendid Splinter," and "Teddy Ballgame."

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