num_pages: 855
description: From the catalog: At long last the epic biography Ted Williams deserves  and that his fans have been waiting for. Ted Williams was the best hitter in baseball history. This Red Sox legend's batting average of .406 in 1941 has not been topped since and no player who has hit over 500 home runs has a higher career batting average. Those totals would have been even higher if Williams had not left baseball for nearly five years in the prime of his career to serve as a Marine pilot in World War II and Korea. He hit home runs as far as or farther than any player before him  and traveled a long way himself as Ben Bradlee Jr.'s grand biography reveals. Born in 1918 in San Diego Ted would spend most of his life disguising his Mexican heritage. During his 22 years with the Boston Red Sox Williams electrified crowds across Americanand shocked them too: His notorious clashes with the press and fans threatened his reputation. Yet while he was a God in the batter's box he was profoundly human once he stepped away from the plate. His ferocity came to define his troubled domestic life. While baseball might have been straightforward for Ted Williams life was not. The Kid is biography of the highest literary order a thrilling and honest account of a legend in all his glory and human complexity. In his final at-bat Williams hit a home run. Bradlee's marvelous book clears the fences too.
language: English
title: The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams
publisher: Little, Brown and Company