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TedWilliams is perhaps the most fascinating, the most controversial - yes, andpossibly the greatest - figure in American sports history. Only Babe Ruth, Muhammad Ali, and MichaelJordan stand on a pedestal with him.Itis sad that millions of young people know only what they have read of hisdeath. This book is not about hisdeath. It is about his life.TedWilliams was an enigma, who just wouldn’t fit into a mold. The Boston press once took a poll to name the least cooperative,most temperamental, most generous, and most cooperative players on the RedSox. Williams came in first in everycategory.Iknew Ted Williams for 45 years, beginning in 1957, and saw him play for 20,beginning in 1941. This has given me aunique box seat to this amazing chapter of Americana. To me he isthe Beethoven and Monet of baseball.Butwhy another Ted Williams book?Tedis already the subject of a large and growing hagiography of excellent andreadable books. His own My Turn AtBat is one of the most engaging autobiographies in sports literature. I made a modest contribution in 1991 with TheLast 400 Hitter, about his magnificent season of 1941.Eachbiography draws on different sources. They are like the blind men who clutch different parts of anelephant. Each adds to the mosaic, aseach gropes to discover this ebullient yet elusive and enigmatic man.Inthe present work I have tapped hitherto untapped sources in hopes of presentingthe most complete story yet assembled of an amazing Renaissance man. Based on half a century of research, I haveexamined this many-sided genius from as many new angles as possible, hoping topaint the Cromwellian portrait that he himself wouldhave wanted, warts and all.Tedand I spent hours probing his memory for games and players now largely lost toliving memory.Beginning20 years ago I also probed the memories of dozens of men, many now gone, whoplayed with and against
