The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship
 

The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship

by David Halberstam

As baseball legend Ted Williams lay dying in Florida, his old Boston Red Sox teammates Johnny Pesky and Dom DiMaggio piled into a car and drove 1,300 miles to see their friend. Another member of the close-knit group, Bobby Doerr, remained in Oregon to tend to his wife who had suffered a stroke. Besides providing a poignant travelogue of the elderly Pesky and DiMaggio's trip, David Halberstam's... (read more)

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I don't read many sports books anymore, but I heard a review of this on NPR once and it was a fairly short read (big plus!), so I picked it up. Really enjoyed it, showed the human side behind some baseball/Americana icons. Some great baseball history in there too, even if you're not a rabid baseball fan.

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