The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams (131 page)

 
21
. Ibid., 112.

 
22
.
Boston Herald,
March 10, 1942.

 
23
. Seidel,
Ted Williams,
119.

 
24
.
Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Boston Post,
and
Boston Daily Record,
March 11, 1942.

 
25
.
Sarasota Tribune,
February 23, 2012.

 
26
.
Boston Evening American,
March 22, 1942.

 
27
. Williams with Pietrusza,
Ted Williams: My Life in Pictures,
49.

 
28
.
Boston Globe,
April 13, 1942.

 
29
.
Boston Daily Record,
April 16, 1942.

 
30
. Seidel,
Ted Williams,
122.

 
31
. Ibid., 124.

 
32
.
Boston Evening American,
March 25, 1960.

 
33
.
Boston Globe,
May 12, 1942.

 
34
.
Boston Evening American,
May 23, 1942.

 
35
.
Boston Daily Record,
May 23, 1942.

 
36
.
Boston Globe
and
Boston Traveler,
May 23, 1942.

 
37
.
Boston Globe,
July 13, 1942.

 
38
. Seidel,
Ted Williams,
126.

 
39
.
Boston Herald,
July 2, 1942.

 
40
.
Boston Daily Record,
July 2, 1942.

 
41
.
Boston Globe,
November 3, 1942.

 
42
.
New York Times,
March 30, 2012.

Chapter 8: World War II

 
1
.
Boston Traveler,
November 17, 1942.

 
2
.
Boston Daily Record,
December 1, 1942.

 
3
.
Boston Globe,
December 21, 1942.

 
4
. Williams with Underwood,
My Turn at Bat,
101.

 
5
. Ibid., 100.

 
6
.
Sporting News,
December 10, 1942.

 
7
.
Boston Globe,
December 5, 1942.

 
8
.
Boston Evening American,
January 11, 1952.

 
9
. Williams with Underwood,
My Turn at Bat,
100.

 
10
. Interview with George H. W. Bush, March 3, 2006.

 
11
.
Boston Evening American,
January 11, 1952.

 
12
.
Boston Globe,
July 11, 1943.

 
13
.
Boston Globe
and
Boston Sunday Advertiser,
July 11, 1943.

 
14
.
Boston Globe, Boston Daily Record,
and
Boston Traveler,
July 13, 1943, and Dick Flavin, “The Day Ted and Babe Squared Off,” article for a Red Sox program, summer 2000.

 
15
. Crissey Jr.,
Athletes Away,
29 and 30.

 
16
.
Boston Post,
July 31, 1943.

 
17
. Interview with Johnny Pesky, October 7, 2002.

 
18
. Williams with Underwood,
My Turn at Bat,
100–1.

 
19
.
Boston Globe,
December 14, 1943.

 
20
. Williams with Underwood,
My Turn at Bat,
101–2.

 
21
. Interview with Johnny Pesky, October 7, 2002.

 
22
. Williams with Underwood,
My Turn at Bat,
101.

 
23
.
Boston Evening American,
January 11, 1952.

 
24
.
Boston Herald,
May 26, 1997.

 
25
.
Boston Evening American,
January 11, 1952.

 
26
.
Boston Evening American,
January 10, 1944.

 
27
.
Boston Evening American,
March 1, 1944.

 
28
.
Boston Evening American,
January 13, 1944.

 
29
.
Boston Evening American,
January 16, 1944.

 
30
.
Boston Evening American,
January 19, 1944.

 
31
. Hynes,
Flights of Passage,
67–69.

 
32
. Interview with Dick Francisco, December 21, 2004.

 
33
. Interview with Hill Goodspeed, April 20, 2006.

 
34
.
Boston Globe,
April 18, 1953.

 
35
.
Boston Post,
February 25, 1955.

 
36
. Williams with Underwood,
My Turn at Bat,
104.

 
37
. Interview with Kenneth Carroll, December 8, 2004.

 
38
. Interview with John Holland, April 19, 2006.

 
39
. Williams with Underwood,
My Turn at Bat,
103.

 
40
. Interview with Bob Kennedy, April 28, 2004.

 
41
. Interview with Len Poth, July 7, 2004.

 
42
. Interview with Frank Maznicki, April 14, 2004.

 
43
.
Boston Evening American,
January 11, 1952.

 
44
. McDermott with Eisenberg,
A Funny Thing Happened,
218.

 
45
.
Boston Globe,
March 25, 1952.

 
46
. Williams with Underwood,
My Turn at Bat,
104.

 
47
. Interview with Jimmy Dunn, January 10, 2006.

 
48
.
Baseball Digest,
April 1946.

Chapter 9: 1946

 
1
.
Boston Globe,
January 28, 1946.

 
2
.
Sporting News,
March 14, 1946.

 
3
.
Time,
April 10, 1946, as cited in Seidel,
Ted Williams,
146.

 
4
.
Boston Evening American,
April 1, 1946.

 
5
. Seidel,
Ted Williams,
145.

 
6
.
Boston Globe,
April 7, 1946.

 
7
. Turner,
When the Boys Came Back,
54.

 
8
.
Boston Globe,
March 9, 1946.

 
9
. Corcoran with Harvey,
Unplayable Lies,
125–26.

 
10
.
Boston Evening American,
April 17, 1946.

 
11
.
Boston Evening American,
April 29, 1946.

 
12
.
Boston Daily Record,
May 13, 1946.

 
13
. Honig,
Baseball When the Grass Was Real,
255.

 
14
. Turner,
When the Boys Came Back,
167.

 
15
.
New York Times,
July 10, 1946.

 
16
. Honig,
Baseball When the Grass Was Real,
257.

 
17
.
Boston Globe,
July 10, 1946.

 
18
.
Boston Herald,
July 15, 1946.

 
19
. Williams with Underwood,
My Turn at Bat,
107.

 
20
. Hirshberg,
From Sandlots to League President,
158.

 
21
.
Boston Globe,
September 8, 1946.

 
22
. Williams with Underwood,
My Turn at Bat,
108.

 
23
. Dunne,
Play Ball!,
5–8.

 
24
. Ibid., 95.

 
25
. Ibid., 91–94.

 
26
.
New York Times,
October 31, 1946.

 
27
. Dunne,
Play Ball!,
266.

 
28
. Turner,
When the Boys Came Back,
199.

 
29
. Williams with Underwood,
My Turn at Bat,
109.

 
30
.
Detroit Free Press,
May 24, 2005.

 
31
.
Time,
September 15, 1947.

 
32
. Associated Press, December 30, 1947.

 
33
. Einstein,
The Fireside Book of Baseball,
385.

 
34
.
Life,
September 23, 1946.

 
35
. Williams with Underwood,
My Turn at Bat,
111.

 
36
. Linn,
Hitter,
222.

 
37
. Ibid., 214.

 
38
.
Boston Globe,
October 4, 1946.

 
39
.
Boston Daily Record,
October 4, 1946.

 
40
.
Boston Globe,
October 4, 1946.

 
41
.
Boston Globe,
October 6, 1946.

 
42
.
Boston Evening American,
October 5, 1946.

 
43
.
Boston Globe,
October 6, 1946.

 
44
.
Boston Globe,
October 5, 1946.

 
45
. Interview with Joe Garagiola, April 9, 2004.

 
46
.
Boston Evening American,
October 8, 1946.

 
47
. Corcoran with Harvey,
Unplayable Lies,
135.

 
48
.
Boston Evening American,
October 10, 1946.

 
49
. Robinson,
Ted Williams,
168.

 
50
.
Boston Globe,
October 12, 1946.

 
51
.
Boston Evening American,
October 14, 1946.

 
52
.
Boston Globe,
October 13, 1946.

 
53
.
Boston Globe,
October 14, 1946.

 
54
. Ibid.

 
55
.
Boston Globe,
October 15, 1946.

 
56
. Associated Press, October 15, 1946.

 
57
.
Sport,
July 1952, and Williams with Underwood,
My Turn at Bat,
116. (Rice or the unnamed writer told the dinner-with-Williams story to
New York Journal-American
columnist Frank Graham, who wrote about it in the July 1952 issue of
Sport.
Williams also tells of the dinner in his book.)

 
58
.
Boston Evening American,
October 15, 1946.

 
59
. Interview with Dominic DiMaggio, October 2, 2002.

 
60
.
Boston Globe,
October 16, 1946.

 
61
. Ibid.

 
62
. Ibid.

 
63
.
Boston Evening American,
March 29, 1960.

 
64
.
Boston Post,
October 16, 1946.

 
65
. Williams with Underwood,
My Turn at Bat,
118.

 
66
. Ibid., 105.

Chapter 10: 1947–1948

 
1
. Williams with Underwood,
My Turn at Bat,
122.

 
2
. Seidel,
Ted Williams,
169.

 
3
.
Sport,
February 1947.

 
4
. Williams with Underwood,
My Turn at Bat,
122.

 
5
. Nowlin and others,
Ted Williams: A Splendid Life,
31.

 
6
. Prime and Nowlin,
Ted Williams,
240.

 
7
. Williams with Underwood,
My Turn at Bat,
18.

 
8
. Interview with Buck O’Neil, July 15, 2004.

 
9
.
Boston Daily Record,
April 16, 1945, as cited in Stout, “Tryout and Fallout.”

 
10
. Interview with John Harrington, May 21, 2003.

 
11
.
Boston Globe,
September 3, 1971.

 
12
. Writer Marc Onigman was apparently the first to disclose the race section of the report as part of an article on Yawkey in the August 9, 1980, edition of Boston’s now-defunct
Real Paper,
an alternative weekly.

 
13
. Interview with George Digby, October 7, 2005.

 
14
. Bryant,
Shut Out,
1.

 
15
. Article by Jim Bouton for the
Boston Globe,
October 8, 2003.

 
16
. Interview with Pumpsie Green, July 16, 2004.

 
17
. Interview with Curt Gowdy, October 24, 2002.

 
18
. Interview with Larry Taylor, April 29, 2004.

 
19
.
New York Times,
December 18, 1980.

 
20
. Johnson and Stout,
Ted Williams,
94.

 
21
.
Boston Traveler,
October 3, 1947.

 
22
.
Boston Traveler,
June 2, 1946.

 
23
.
Boston Globe,
January 7, 1948.

 
24
.
Boston Globe,
January 29, 1948.

 
25
. Harold Kaese notes, the Harold Kaese Collection of the Boston Public Library.

 
26
.
Boston Globe,
February 2, 1948.

 
27
.
Boston Traveler,
February 3, 1948.

 
28
. Stout and Johnson,
Red Sox Century,
261.

 
29
.
Boston Herald,
February 3, 1948.

 
30
. McNaught Syndicate, February 9, 1948.

 
31
. Williams with Underwood,
My Turn at Bat,
161.

 
32
.
Boston Globe,
March 10, 1948.

 
33
. Stout and Johnson,
Red Sox Century,
263.

 
34
. Tommy Byrne interview with David Halberstam for
Summer of ’49,
provided to the author by Halberstam. (Like Byrne, Berra himself enjoyed trying to distract Ted by doing things like flipping pebbles at his feet.)