Books : The Teammates

by: David Halberstam  Average Rating:
Product Description:

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
Rating: - The Teammates
This is a great book. One of the best books I've read. Dom Dimaggio and Johnny Pesky is driving to Florida to visit the sick Ted Williams for the last time. On the 1,300 mi. trip to Florida, Dimaggio and Pesky look back on all the memories they had on the Red Sox with Ted and Bobby Doerr. Memories from fishing with Williams and Doerr to the field of Fenway Park. Dan Halberstam has once again created a master-piece.

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Rating: - Great true to life story!
Awesome story of four of the most wonderful friends and players who ever played the game of baseball. Great detail and stories. I couldn't put the book down and bought several more for friends!

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Rating: - A Poignant Story
Baseball players, like the rest of us, get old (with luck). This is a heartfelt story of three aging baseball guys who go to visit Ted Williams while he was in his protracted declining years. Woven throughout are memories they had of their experiences with Williams including participating with him in Williams' unique version of "extreme fly fishing" at a time when there were no extreme sports. The reader ends up feeling as if he or she were along for the ride. If you have an appreciation for the ... Read More