The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams (130 page)

 
36
.
Time
files.

 
37
. Williams with Underwood,
My Turn at Bat,
76.

 
38
.
Time
files.

 
39
. Williams with Underwood,
My Turn at Bat,
76.

 
40
.
Boston Evening American,
March 28, 1960.

 
41
.
Boston Globe,
May 2, 1939.

 
42
. Williams with Underwood,
My Turn at Bat,
63.

 
43
. Ibid., 64.

 
44
.
Boston Globe,
May 4 and 5, 1939.

 
45
. Blake,
Baseball Chronicles,
66 and 67.

 
46
. Connor,
Baseball for the Love of It,
142.

 
47
.
Boston Globe,
May 31, 1939.

 
48
. Undated Williams interview with Dick Hackenberg of the
Minneapolis Star.

 
49
.
Boston Evening American,
March 25, 1960.

 
50
. Harry Grayson, NEA Service sports editor, in the
San Diego Sun,
July 24, 1939.

 
51
.
Boston Sunday Advertiser,
July 23, 1939.

 
52
.
Boston Globe,
July 19, 1939.

 
53
.
Boston Globe,
July 7, 1939.

 
54
.
Boston Sunday Advertiser,
July 23, 1939.

 
55
.
Boston Daily Record,
August 4, 1939.

 
56
.
Boston Daily Record,
May 22, 1939.

 
57
.
Boston Daily Record,
July 31, 1939.

 
58
. Associated Press, August 8, 1939.

 
59
.
Boston Daily Record,
August 9, 1939.

 
60
.
Boston Globe,
August 10, 1939.

 
61
.
Boston Globe,
August 15, 1939.

 
62
.
Boston Evening American,
July 21, 1939.

 
63
.
Boston Globe,
August 30, 1939.

 
64
. Williams with Underwood,
My Turn at Bat,
65.

Chapter 5: The Writers

 
1
.
Boston Globe,
February 2, 1940, as cited in Seidel,
Ted Williams,
64.

 
2
.
Boston Sunday Advertiser,
February 4, 1940.

 
3
.
Boston Sunday Advertiser,
April 14, 1940.

 
4
. Dave Egan, “Ted Williams Gets Spanked,”
Boston Sunday Advertiser
’s
Green
magazine, August 18, 1940.

 
5
.
Boston Evening Transcript,
May 22, 1940.

 
6
.
Boston Globe,
May 21, 1940.

 
7
.
Boston Evening Transcript,
May 22, 1940.

 
8
. Linn,
Hitter,
121.

 
9
.
Boston Daily Record,
June 4, 1940.

 
10
.
Boston Evening American,
August 13, 1940.

 
11
.
Boston Daily Record,
August 14, 1940.

 
12
.
Boston Globe,
August 14, 1940.

 
13
. Seidel,
Ted Williams,
79–80.

 
14
.
Esquire,
June 1986.

 
15
. Associated Press, August 20, 1940.

 
16
.
Boston Globe,
September 5, 1940.

 
17
. Williams with Underwood,
My Turn at Bat,
80–81.

 
18
. Johnson and Stout,
Ted Williams,
39.

 
19
. Holtzman,
No Cheering in the Press Box,
16.

 
20
. Halberstam,
Summer of ’49,
110.

 
21
. Interview with Tim Horgan, October 5, 2005.

 
22
. Hirshberg,
What’s the Matter with the Red Sox?,
123 and 124.

 
23
. Kemmerer,
Hey Kid,
46.

 
24
. Interview with Tim Horgan, October 5, 2005, and interview with Bob Monahan, October 7, 2005.

 
25
. Hirshberg,
What’s the Matter with the Red Sox?,
134.

 
26
. Ibid., 23.

 
27
. Ibid., 24 and 25.

 
28
. Ibid., 134.

 
29
. Interview with Don Buddin, September 24, 2003.

 
30
.
Boston Globe,
May 22, 1958.

 
31
. Interview with Larry Corea, January 12, 2006.

 
32
. Interview with Curt Gowdy, October 24, 2002.

 
33
. Interview with George Sullivan, April 27, 2005.

 
34
. Interview with Tex Clevenger, September 25, 2003.

 
35
. Interview with Jimmy Piersall, July 16, 2004.

 
36
. Interview with Charlie Maxwell, June 25, 2003.

 
37
. Linn,
Hitter,
16 and 134.

 
38
.
Sport,
January 1958.

 
39
. Interview with James Carroll, February 3, 2005.

 
40
. Interview with Jim Cleary, October 7, 2003.

 
41
. McDermott with Eisenberg,
A Funny Thing Happened,
64–65.

 
42
. Ibid., 92.

 
43
.
Boston Sunday Advertiser,
August 12, 1956.

 
44
.
Boston Globe,
June 11, 1964.

 
45
. Interview with Elden Auker, July 14, 2005.

 
46
. Golenbock,
Fenway,
129.

 
47
. Hirshberg,
What’s the Matter with the Red Sox?,
18.

 
48
.
Boston Globe,
April 30, 2003.

 
49
. Ibid.

 
50
.
Sports Illustrated,
October 3, 1966.

 
51
.
Boston Globe,
February 1, 1955.

 
52
. Interview with Brian Cashman, Joe Cashman’s grandson, October 19, 2005.

 
53
. Cataneo,
I Remember Ted Williams,
157.

 
54
. Interview with Phil Elderkin, January 18, 2007.

 
55
. Interview with Bob Ajemian, August 8, 2002.

 
56
. Interview with Bud Collins, May 1, 2003.

Chapter 6: .406

 
1
. Interview with Jim Kallas, July 15, 2004.

 
2
.
Boston Evening American,
May 23, 1942.

 
3
. Interview with Donald Soule, March 11, 2003.

 
4
. Interview with Ramona Mitchell, September 9, 2004.

 
5
. Interview with Jean Holetz, July 28, 2004.

 
6
. Interview with Bobby-Jo Williams Ferrell, March 11, 2003.

 
7
. Associated Press, January 23, 1941.

 
8
. Vince Orlando interview in 1967 by the late
Boston Globe
columnist Will McDonough. (McDonough, then a young reporter, was retained by
Miami Herald
columnist Edwin Pope that year to help him conduct research for a book on the 1941 season of Ted Williams. Besides Vince Orlando, McDonough interviewed a variety of other people, including Johnny Orlando, Joe Cronin, Tom Yawkey, Ted Lepcio, and Williams’s roommate, Charlie Wagner. The book was aborted, but copies of McDonough’s interviews were among Williams’s papers made available to the author by his daughter, Claudia. Some of the interviews first appeared in Montville,
Ted Williams
—after Montville obtained them from Pope.)

 
9
.
Boston Daily Record,
March 12, 1941.

 
10
.
Boston Sunday Advertiser,
March 16, 1941.

 
11
.
Boston Evening Transcript,
February 26, 1941.

 
12
.
Boston Daily Record,
March 23, 1941.

 
13
.
Boston Daily Record,
April 1, 1941.

 
14
.
Boston Evening Transcript,
March 25, 1941.

 
15
. Vince Orlando interview, Will McDonough 1967 interviews.

 
16
.
Boston Globe,
April 8, 1941.

 
17
. Williams with Underwood,
My Turn at Bat,
84–85.

 
18
.
Boston Globe,
June 24, 1941.

 
19
. Associated Press, June 8, 1941.

 
20
.
Boston Globe,
July 1, 1941.

 
21
. Vaccaro,
1941,
222.

 
22
.
Sporting News,
July 17, 1941.

 
23
. Prime and Nowlin,
Ted Williams,
40. (Slaughter kept the ball for forty-four years until he was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1985, whereupon he presented it to Williams, who signed the ball and left it at Cooperstown.)

 
24
. Williams with Underwood,
My Turn at Bat,
89 and 87.

 
25
.
Boston Herald
and
Boston Daily Record,
July 9, 1941.

 
26
. DiMaggio with Gilbert,
Real Grass, Real Heroes,
51.

 
27
. Ibid., 86 and 87.

 
28
. Ibid., 87 and 88.

 
29
. Ibid., 136.

 
30
. Will McDonough 1967 interviews.

 
31
. Vaccaro,
1941,
231.

 
32
. Ibid., 239.

 
33
.
Boston Globe,
September 7, 1941.

 
34
. Vaccaro,
1941,
241.

 
35
.
Boston Daily Record
and
Boston Post,
September 17, 1941.

 
36
.
Boston Herald,
September 23, 1941.

 
37
. Holway,
Ted Williams,
268.

 
38
.
Boston Globe,
September 26, 1941.

 
39
.
Boston Herald,
September 26, 1941.

 
40
. Johnny Orlando interview, Will McDonough 1967 interviews.

 
41
. Williams with Underwood,
My Turn at Bat,
87.

 
42
. Charlie Wagner interview, Will McDonough 1967 interviews.

 
43
. Harrington E. Crissey Jr., “The Splendid Splinter’s Splendid Finish,” paper in the
Phillies Report,
May 23, 1991.

 
44
. Interview with Fred Caligiuri, September 19, 2003.

 
45
. Linn,
Hitter,
161.

 
46
. Williams with Underwood,
My Turn at Bat,
90.

 
47
. Will McDonough 1967 interviews.

 
48
.
Boston Herald,
September 29, 1941.

 
49
.
Boston Post,
September 29, 1941.

 
50
.
Boston Globe,
September 29, 1941.

 
51
. Johnny Orlando interview, Will McDonough 1967 interviews.

 
52
. Interview with Charlie Wagner, October 21, 2002.

 
53
.
Boston Globe,
September 29, 1941.

 
54
.
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin,
September 29, 1941, as cited in Crissey Jr., “The Splendid Splinter’s Splendid Finish.”

 
55
. Williams with Underwood,
My Turn at Bat,
83.

 
56
. Holway,
Ted Williams,
303.

 
57
. Stephen Jay Gould, “Achieving the Impossible Dream: Ted Williams and .406,” as cited in Johnson and Stout,
Ted Williams,
70.

 
58
.
Time
files.

 
59
. Nowlin,
The Kid,
184.

Chapter 7: 3A

 
1
. Williams with Underwood,
My Turn at Bat,
97.

 
2
.
Boston Daily Record,
January 6, 1942.

 
3
. United Press International, February 27, 1942.

 
4
.
Boston Globe,
February 28, 1942. (Eddie Collins told Harold Kaese that Williams gave him the news on January 28.)

 
5
.
Boston Globe,
March 11, 1942.

 
6
.
Boston Post,
March 1, 1942.

 
7
.
Boston Daily Record,
February 7, 1942.

 
8
.
Boston Daily Record,
February 23, 1942.

 
9
. Seidel,
Ted Williams,
108 and 111.

 
10
. Williams with Underwood,
My Turn at Bat,
98.

 
11
.
Boston Globe,
February 28, 1942.

 
12
.
Boston Daily Record,
February 28, 1942, as cited in Nowlin,
Ted Williams at War,
22.

 
13
.
Boston Sunday Advertiser
and
Boston Herald,
March 1, 1942.

 
14
. Seidel,
Ted Williams,
118.

 
15
.
Boston Post,
March 1, 1942.

 
16
. Associated Press, March 3, 1942.

 
17
.
Boston Daily Record,
March 1 and 2, 1942.

 
18
. Seidel,
Ted Williams,
118.

 
19
. Williams with Underwood,
My Turn at Bat,
98–99.

 
20
. Seidel,
Ted Williams,
114.