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Laddar... The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship (2003)av David Halberstam
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Reads like a postscript to the author’s Summer of ‘49, from which it recycles a few too many anecdotes. Dom Dimaggio and Johnny Pesky make a trip to Florida to see Ted Williams, dying. Bobby Doerr can’t make the trip from Oregon; he’s caring for his wife, who after suffering for years from MS has had two strokes. Halberstam combines, as usual, sharp reporting with clear prose, and continues his project of using the lens of baseball, and our obsession with it, to make larger statements about post-war American society. It's not only about baseball, it's an elegaic meditation on friendship, aging and death. A good read. ( ) David Halberstam Teammates: A Portrait of Friendship is a wonderful baseball book that transcends the game, by turns heartwarming and heartbreaking. It is the story of four Boston Red Sox teammates - Ted Williams, Bobby Doerr, Dom DiMaggio, and Johnny Pesky - who after their playing days remained lifelong friends. Halberstam chronicles their personalities, their interrelationships, their careers (and a marvelous recap of the pivotal play in the seventh game of the 1946 Red Sox-Cardinals World Series), all leading to DiMaggio and Pesky’s October 2001 road trip to pay a final visit to Williams, his health failing, in his last dying days. Really enjoyed this book. Well-researched, and based on interviews with the four team members, Ted Williams, Bobby Doerr, Dominic DiMaggio, and John Pesky, it paints a realistic, if mostly unflattering, picture of Ted Williams. But it also provides insight into why Ted was the way he was, and offers examples of his generosity. It also reconfirmed by belief that ball players used to play for the love of the game itself, and as a result they were more invested in the game and the fans more invested in the players. Greed has helped to ruin America's Pastime. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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Ted Williams, Bobby Doerr, Dom DiMaggio, and Johnny Pesky were all members of the famed 1940's Boston Red Sox. Halberstam, the bestselling author of "Summer of '49," has followed the members of the team and reveals how these four became friends, and how that friendship thrived for more than 60 years. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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