The author recounts his baseball career, both as a player and as a manager, and reflects on his accomplishments as a sports fisherman.
My Turn at Bat
Selected from My Turn at Bat: the Story of My Life
Selected from My Turn at Bat: The Story of My Life
With unmatched verve and passion, and drawing upon hundreds of interviews, acclaimed best-selling author Leigh Montville brings to life Ted Williams's superb triumphs, lonely tragedies, and intensely colorful personality, in a biography ...
88 leagues in the rst place, and then against Ted Williams, was kind of a unique thing for our friendship. Well, anyway, I don't recall what inning I got in, but I know we were [laughs], well, behind in the game. I can remember standing ...
Profiles the iconic baseball hitter, including his rigorous practice schedule as a youth, military service in two wars, and stellar career that led to an unmatched season in 1941.
In addition to 300 color and b&w images, many from the author's own collection, this attractive volume features Williams's candid words about his life both on the field and off.
New Senators owner Bob Short hired Hall of Famer Ted Williams to manage the team. Williams sparked the Senators to their only winning record for a Washington team since 1952. This book recounts that 1969 season in-depth.
Hornsby was the closest to the complete hitter—style, power, smartness, everything. I'll never forget as a twenty-year-old kid in camp with the Minneapolis team at Daytona Beach, standing around the batting cage or in the lobby of the ...
Rediscover the magic of Weetzie Bat, Ms. Blocks sophisticated, slinkster-cool love song to L.A.the book that shattered the standard, captivated readers of all generations, and made Francesca Lia Block one of the most heralded authors of the ...