04505cam a2200601 4500 330327198 TxAuBib 20170805120000.0 ||||||s2004||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780385507493 0385507496 B000FC1GBU Amazon c3db875a-b5ee-4b84-885b-b81ef5fe6f35 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 116438 46554 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Montville, Leigh. Ted Williams [Libby eBook] : The Biography of an American Hero. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2004. Format: OverDrive Adobe PDF eBook, Filesize: 1876kB. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 630kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. batting average. Ted Williams. baseball bat. World War 2. fenway park. best swing. Biography. home runs. baseball. red sox. the kid. legend. Boston. sports. Swing. .406. HTML:The Kid. The Splendid Splinter. Teddy Ballgame. One of the greatest figures of his generation, and arguably the greatest baseball hitter of all time. But what made Ted Williams a legend – and a lightning rod for controversy in life and in death?<br /> Still a gangly teenager when he stepped into a Boston Red Sox uniform in 1939, Williams's boisterous personality and penchant for towering home runs earned him adoring admirers and venomous critics. In 1941, the entire country followed Williams's stunning .406 season, a record that has not been touched in over six decades. Then at the pinnacle of his prime, Williams left Boston to train and serve as a fighter pilot in World War II, missing three full years of baseball, making his achievements all the more remarkable.<br /> Ted Willams's personal life was equally colorful. His attraction to women (and their attraction to him) was a constant. He was married and divorced three times and he fathered two daughters and a son. He was one of corporate America's first modern spokesmen, and he remained, nearly into his eighties, a fiercely devoted fisherman. With his son, John Henry Williams, he devoted his final years to the sports memorabilia business, even as illness overtook him. And in death, controversy and public outcry followed Williams and the disagreements between his children over the decision to have his body preserved for future resuscitation in a cryonics facility—a fate, many argue, Williams never wanted.<br /> 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 that is fitting of an American hero and legend. Biography & Autobiography. Sports & Recreations. Nonfiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2017-10-06 16:16:45. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/C3D/B87/5A/TedWilliamsTheBiographyofanAmericanHe9780385507493.epub Excerpt (Adobe PDF eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=C3DB875A-B5EE-4B84-885B-B81EF5FE6F35&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe PDF eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/C3D/B87/5A/TedWilliamsTheBiographyofanAmericanHe9780385507493.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=C3DB875A-B5EE-4B84-885B-B81EF5FE6F35&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/C3D/B87/5A/TedWilliamsTheBiographyofanAmericanHe9780385507493.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=C3DB875A-B5EE-4B84-885B-B81EF5FE6F35&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/C3D/B87/5A/TedWilliamsTheBiographyofanAmericanHe9780385507493.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=C3DB875A-B5EE-4B84-885B-B81EF5FE6F35&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)