The teammates
By: David Halberstam.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Hyperion
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
Subjects: Williams, Ted, -- 1918-; Doerr, Bobby, -- 1918-; DiMaggio, Dom; Pesky, Johnny, -- 1919-; Boston Red Sox (Baseball team); Baseball players -- United States -- Biography; Male friendship -- United States
Genres: Biography.
Description: "In early October 2001, Dominic DiMaggio and Johnny Pesky begin a 1,300-mile trip by car to visit their beloved teammate Ted Williams, knowing that he is dying. Bobby Doerr, the fourth member of this close group - "my guys," Williams used to call them - is unable to be with them because he is back in Oregon tending to his wife of sixty-three years, Monica, who has suffered her second stroke." "At the core of the book is the friendship of these four very different but extraordinary men, the key players in a remarkable Boston Red Sox team, who stayed close to each other for more than sixty years." "The Teammates is the story of two trips: the final one that DiMaggio and Pesky are taking to see Williams, and another, a flight back in time, as they and Bobby Doerr recall the wonders of their years together and reminisce about a magical era."--BOOK JACKET.