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The Kid, December 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
The Immortal Life of Ted Williams
Little, Brown and Company
December 2013
On Sale: December 3, 2013
800 pages ISBN: 0316614351 EAN: 9780316614351 Kindle: B00CO7FHBE Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Biography
At long last, the epic biography Ted Williams
deserves--and that his fans have been waiting for.
Williams was the best hitter in baseball
history. His batting average of .406 in 1941 has not been
topped since, and no player who has hit more than 500 home
runs has a higher career batting average. Those totals would
have been even higher if Williams had not left baseball for
nearly five years in the prime of his career to serve as a
Marine pilot in WWII and Korea. He hit home runs farther
than any player before him--and traveled a long way himself,
as Ben Bradlee, Jr.'s grand biography reveals. Born in 1918
in San Diego, Ted would spend most of his life disguising
his Mexican heritage. During his 22 years with the Boston
Red Sox, Williams electrified crowds across America--and
shocked them, too: His notorious clashes with the press and
fans threatened his reputation. Yet while he was a God in
the batter's box, he was profoundly human once he stepped
away from the plate. His ferocity came to define his
troubled domestic life. While baseball might have been
straightforward for Ted Williams, life was not.
THE
KID is biography of the highest literary order, a thrilling
and honest account of a legend in all his glory and human
complexity. In his final at-bat, Williams hit a home run.
Bradlee's marvelous book clears the fences, too.
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