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When legendary Red Sox hitter Ted Williams died on July 5, 2002, newspapers reviewed the stats, compared him to other legends of the game, and declared him the greatest hitter who ever lived. Richard Ben Cramer, Pulitzer Prize winner and acclaimed biographer of Joe DiMaggio, decodes this... read more
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EVEN IN THE LAST YEARS OF HIS LIFE-even as America and the sub-nation of baseball hungrily re-embraced him-I knew I could provoke surprise (and more than a few arguments) when I said that Ted Williams was not just a great ballplayer, he was a great man.
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- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › People, A-Z › ( W ) › Williams, Ted
- Books › Sports › Biographies › Baseball
- Books › Sports › Baseball › Essays & Writings
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