The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams (119 page)

Enjoying the fruits of duck hunting with then girlfriend Doris Soule in Minnesota, 1940. (Ted Williams Family Enterprises)

Hauling in his kill in Minnesota, late 1939. (Ted Williams Family Enterprises)

With his three aunts, the half sisters of Sam Williams, in San Diego, circa 1939. (May Williams Collection)

Ted, 1941. (May Williams Collection)

Danny Williams, Ted’s brother, at work on his car. (May Williams Collection)

With the Minneapolis Millers, 1938. (National Baseball Hall of Fame Library)

At Boston’s Back Bay station, April 1939, arriving in the city for the first time. (
Boston Globe
photograph)

Swinging in 1939, his rookie year with the Red Sox. (National Baseball Hall of Fame Library)

Happily crossing home plate at Fenway, 1939. (Courtesy of the Trustees of the Boston Public Library / Leslie Jones Collection)

Flashing some leather in a posed shot during his rookie season. (Courtesy of the Griffin Museum of Photography)

At the Boston baseball writers’ dinner, 1939. (Leslie Jones photograph)

In Chicago, 1939, checking out the other side of the camera. (Rogers Photo Archive)

Hamming it up with Jimmie Foxx, 1939. (National Baseball Hall of Fame Library)