Ted Williams News
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It’s puzzling why only Americans made the cut in Joshua Kendall’s study of obsessive traits in seven high achievers -- but who cares? The control freaks and workaholics profiled in “America’s Obsessives: The Compulsive Energy That Built Nation” (Grand Central Publishing), one of three books reviewed in the Summer 2013 issue of Bloomberg Pursuits, are so fascinatingly weird that carping seems almost criminal.
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They played in a ramshackle ballpark on the prairie during the most trying economic period of modern times. The stands were separated from the field by chicken wire, the locker room had no showers, fans parked their cars in the outfield. This was baseball in Bismarck, North Dakota, in the 1930s.
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Leveraged-buyout specialist Al Tapper has nursed two dreams since the early 1950’s, when he was a 10- year-old in Worcester, Massachusetts.
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He was the Dodgers’ batboy when they visited Philadelphia. (His father knew Tommy Lasorda.) Ted Williams offered him hitting tips. Yet he started at baseball’s lowest rung, the Instructional League.
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Bob Gibson, the Hall-of-Fame pitcher who had three complete game victories in the 1967 World Series for the St. Louis Cardinals, is being honored with a statue funded by billionaire investor Warren Buffett.
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John Updike ’s classic “ Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu ” is a brief valedictory to Ted Williams that has just been reprinted by the Library of America. Considering that the price, $15, is half of what I spent on hot dogs and a few overpriced Yuenglings at the ballpark the other day, it’s the best bargain in baseball.
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Hardly anyone remembers 1942 for baseball. In the U.S., it was the first year of World War II, a sad and sober time when the nation began to battle back from Pearl Harbor.
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As a senator, John Kerry fought for sweeping climate change legislation, called human-induced warming among the top challenges facing the U.S., and pushed for an international accord to cut carbon dioxide emissions.
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Amgen Inc. won a U.S. court ruling that bars Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. from selling a generic version of the kidney drug Sensipar until at least 2016.
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Johnny Pesky, the former Boston Red Sox shortstop and manager whose name was given to the right- field foul pole at Fenway Park, died yesterday at the age of 92.
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