The Teammates: a Portrait of a Friendship by David Halberstam
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His work has stood the test of time and has become the standard by which all journalists measure themselves.The Teammates is the profoundly moving story of four great baseball players who have made the passage from sports icons--when they were young and seemingly indestructible--to men dealing with the vulnerabilities of growing older. At the core of the book is the friendship of these four very different men--Boston Red Sox teammates Bobby Doerr, Dominic DiMaggio, Johnny Pesky, and Ted Williams--who remained close for more than sixty years.The book starts out in early October 2001, when Dominic DiMaggio and Johnny Pesky begin a 1,300-mile trip by car to visit their beloved friend Ted Williams, whom they know is dying. Bobby Doerr, the fourth member of this close group--my guys, Williams used to call them--is unable to join them.This is a book--filled with historical details and first-hand accounts--about baseball and about something more: the richness of friendship. David Halberstam is one of the great nonfiction writers of the 2nd half of the 20th century (though this was published in 2002). Mr. Halberstam was primarily a political writer (with a focus on Vietnam and Civil Rights), though he did write three baseball books (this, Summer of 49 and October of 64), two basketball books (Breaks of the Game and Playing for Keeps (a great Michael Jordan book that along with the Jordan Rules, helps us really understand MJ), and one football book (The Education of a Coach).This is the story of Ted Williams, Johnny Pesky, Bobby Doerr and Dom DiMaggio. All four served in WW2, but they were Red Sox teammates before and after the war. Williams died in 2002 - the first of the quartet to go. Mr. Halberstam heard about a road trip that DiMaggio and Pesky took with another man from Boston to Florida to visit Williams in the fall of 2001 when he was dying. That led to this book, which is a beautiful story of baseball and a lifelong friendships. Williams was the best player and the most flawed - Halberstam clearly admires him but also shows us his warts. The other men had successful marriages and post- baseball careers. As in his other sports books, Halberstam conducted a number of interviews to put this together - the quotes and stories are excellent.Most significantly, I cant compliment Halberstams writing style enough. He is informative, funny at times, once in a while throws in a personal anecdote, and painstaking in his research. His language is sparse - he doesnt weigh the reader down with rhetorical flourishes. As a result, you can read this quite quickly yet absorb a great deal. This is clearly the result of his being a journalist. 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