89. Linn, Hitter, 35.
90. Ibid.
91. Time file.
92. Williams with Underwood, My Turn at Bat, 27.
93. Society for American Baseball Research, A History of San Diego Baseball.
94. Williams with Underwood, My Turn at Bat, 30.
95. Interview with John Sullivan, January 7, 2003.
96. Nowlin, The Kid, 240.
97. Williams with Underwood, My Turn at Bat, 30.
98. Interview with Beverly Schultz, December 14, 2004.
99. Interview with Frank Cushing, October 25, 2002.
100. Interview with Joe Villarino, October 25, 2002.
101. Interview with John Cordero, February 10, 2005.
102. Williams with Underwood, My Turn at Bat, 31–32.
103. Linn, Hitter, 33.
104. Williams with Underwood, My Turn at Bat, 31 and 32.
105. Interview with Al Cassidy, October 9, 2002.
106. Nowlin, The Kid, 312.
107. Interview with Sam Williams, October 30, 2002.
108. Interview with John Theodore Williams, October 1, 2002.
109. San Diego Tribune, May 15, 1978.
110. Boston Globe, September 8, 1946.
111. Nowlin, The Kid, 92–94.
112. Williams with Underwood, My Turn at Bat, 33.
113. Time file.
114. Boston Globe, September 8, 1946.
115. Society for American Baseball Research, A History of San Diego Baseball.
116. Nowlin, The Kid, 55.
117. Williams with Underwood, My Turn at Bat, 21.
118. Prime and Nowlin, Ted Williams, 5.
119. Nowlin, The Kid, 77.
120. Boston Evening American, December 14, 1950, as cited in Prime and Nowlin, Ted Williams, 28.
121. Nowlin, The Kid, 63.
122. Ibid., 54.
123. Linn, Hitter, 40.
124. Nowlin, The Kid, 62.
125. Ibid., 80 and 81.
126. Prime and Nowlin, Ted Williams, 4.
127. Boston Evening American, July 14, 1941.
128. Williams with Underwood, My Turn at Bat, 34.
129. San Diego Union, May 31, 1936, as cited in Nowlin, The Kid, 118.
130. Nowlin, The Kid, 78.
131. Ibid., 82.
132. San Diego Union, February 23, 1935.
133. San Diego Union, July 6, 1980.
134. Linn, Hitter, 71.
135. Interview with Ray Boone, November 14, 2002.
136. Cataneo, I Remember Ted Williams, 12.
137. Williams with Underwood, My Turn at Bat, 37.
138. Interview with John Underwood, April 14, 2003.
139. Letter from Elmer Hill to Ernest J. Lanigan, November 24, 1957, on file at the National Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, New York.
140. Williams with Underwood, My Turn at Bat, 36.
141. Ibid., 39.
142. Ibid., 37.
143. Nowlin, The Kid, 83.
144. Williams with Underwood, My Turn at Bat, 39.
145. Ibid.
Chapter 2: “Fairyland”
1. Nowlin, The Kid, 82.
2. Interview with Autumn Durst Keltner, September 27, 2004.
3. Boston Evening American, July 15, 1941.
4. Bud Tuttle interview in Nowlin, The Kid, 85.
5. Nowlin, The Kid, 23.
6. Bill Swank newsletter, December 1999.
7. Williams with Underwood, My Turn at Bat, 40.
8. Ibid.
9. To Joe Cashman in Boston Evening American, July 16, 1941.
10. Williams with Underwood, My Turn at Bat, 40 and 41.
11. Interview with Bobby Doerr, October 14, 2002.
12. Halberstam, Summer of ’49, 177.
13. Ed Linn’s papers, provided to the author by Linn’s daughter, Hildy Linn Angius.
14. Williams with Underwood, My Turn at Bat, 41.
15. Time file.
16. Ibid.
17. Prime and Nowlin, Ted Williams, 28.
18. San Diego Tribune, June 8, 1966.
19. Williams with Underwood, My Turn at Bat, 41.
20. Linn, Hitter, 53.
21. In return for one dollar and “other good and valuable considerations,” Williams signed a contract with Hillerich & Bradsby on April 21, 1937, giving the company his trademark rights for twenty years in return for an unlimited supply of bats, paid for by his team. Jack Hillerich, who retired as the bat company’s CEO in 2003, said Williams would be given new golf clubs annually as well as other sweeteners. “Whatever he wanted, he got.”
22. Sampson, Ted Williams, 28.
23. Robinson, Ted Williams, 33.
24. Prime and Nowlin, Ted Williams, 14.
25. Baseball Digest, April 1950.
26. Associated Press, April 11, 1939.
27. San Diego Evening Tribune, May 4, 1937.
28. Swank, Echoes from Lane Field, 25.
29. Nowlin, The Kid, 123.
30. Ibid., 124.
31. San Diego Union, August 11, 1936.
32. Boston Sunday Advertiser, July 13, 1941.
33. Time file.
34. Interview with Johnny Pesky, October 7, 2002.
35. Boston Sunday Advertiser, July 13, 1941.
36. Hirshberg, From Sandlots to League President, 117.
37. Nowlin, The Kid, 124.
38. San Diego Union, October 5, 1941, as cited in Nowlin, The Kid, 91.
39. Nowlin, The Kid, 126.
40. Williams with Pietrusza, Ted Williams: My Life in Pictures, 17.
41. Time file.
42. San Diego Tribune, June 8, 1966.
43. Swank, Echoes from Lane Field, 26.
44. Nowlin, The Kid, 89 and 90.
45. Boston Globe, September 8, 1946.
46. Swank, Echoes from Lane Field, 19 and 20.
47. Ibid., 29.
48. Boston Globe, August 13, 1948.
49. Baseball Digest, July 1948.
50. San Diego Evening Tribune, January 7, 1937.
51. Boston Daily Record, February 19, 1948.
52. Interview with Dominic DiMaggio, October 2, 2002.
53. Williams with Underwood, My Turn at Bat, 42 and 43.
54. Boston Evening American, July 16, 1941.
55. Bill Swank, “Ted Williams, Earl Keller, and the 1937 San Diego Padres,” 2003 research paper, 16, 17, and 23.
56. Boston Globe, September 8, 1946.
57. San Diego Evening Tribune, September 1, 1937, as cited in Swank, “Ted Williams,” 23.
58. San Diego Evening Tribune, September 2, 1937, as cited in Swank, “Ted Williams,” 23.
59. Boston Globe, December 7, 1937.
60. Collegiate Baseball, April 7, 1995.
61. Sampson, Ted Williams, 13–20.
62. Christian Science Monitor, August 11, 1958.
63. Boston Globe, March 26, 1954.
64. Boston Evening American, July 17, 1941.
65. San Diego Evening Tribune, December 8, 1937, as cited in Swank, “Ted Williams,” 27.
66. Williams with Underwood, My Turn at Bat, 43.
67. Ibid.
68. Boston Evening American, July 18, 1941.
69. Boston Sunday Advertiser, February 28, 1948.
70. San Diego Evening Tribune, February 16, 1938, as cited in Nowlin, The Kid, 158 and 159.
71. Eddie Collins confirmed to Boston columnist Austen Lake in the February 28, 1938, Evening American that he had settled the dispute by giving Sam and May $2,500. “My purpose in visiting the Coast was to settle the Ted Williams affair,” Collins told Lake. “His parents felt they were entitled to part of his purchase price. I handed them a check for $2,500 and it tickled their hearts.”
Chapter 3: Sarasota and Minneapolis
1. Interview with Bobby Doerr, October 14, 2002.
2. Williams with Underwood, My Turn at Bat, 45.
3. Boston Evening American, March 21, 1960.
4. Boston Herald, March 1
0, 1938.
5. Linn, Hitter, 79.
6. Boston Herald, March 10, 1938.
7. Collier’s, June 24, 1939.
8. Boston Post, March 10, 1938.
9. Boston Evening American, March 14, 1938.
10. Associated Press, March 18, 1938.
11. Boston Post, March 12, 1938.
12. Harold Kaese notes, the Harold Kaese Collection of the Boston Public Library. (Kaese was the leading Boston baseball writer of his era and covered Williams for the Boston Transcript and Boston Globe from 1938 to 1960 and beyond.)
13. Interview with Bobby Doerr, October 14, 2002.
14. Boston Herald, January 24, 1959.
15. Golenbock, Fenway, 116.
16. Williams with Underwood, My Turn at Bat, 47.
17. Ibid.
18. Boston Evening American, March 21, 1960.
19. Golenbock, Fenway, 118.
20. Boston Traveler, August 16, 1938.
21. Minneapolis Journal, March 21, 1938.
22. Minneapolis Star, March 24, 1938, as cited in Nowlin, The Kid, 165.
23. Minneapolis Journal, March 25, 1938.
24. Jocko Conlan and Robert W. Creamer, Jocko (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1967), as cited in Prime and Nowlin, Ted Williams, 22.
25. Boston Globe, December 7, 1959.
26. Minneapolis Star, March 29, 1938.
27. Minneapolis Journal, April 3, 1938.
28. Minneapolis Star, April 11, 1938.
29. Williams with Underwood, My Turn at Bat, 52 and 53.
30. San Diego Sun, May 5, 1938.
31. Seidel, Ted Williams, 36.
32. Minneapolis Tribune and Minneapolis Journal, April 22, 1938.
33. Thornley, On to Nicollet, 69 and 70.
34. Minneapolis Journal, April 30, 1938.
35. Ibid.
36. Interview with Sid Hartman, June 3, 2005.
37. Minneapolis Star, May 10, 1938.
38. Williams with Underwood, My Turn at Bat, 53 and 54.
39. Interview with Jack Bean, September 22, 2005.
40. Prime and Nowlin, Ted Williams, 25.
41. Interview with Jim Kallas, January 24, 2003.
42. Princeton Union-Eagle, July 11, 2002.
43. Interview with Frank Weisbrod, July 16, 2004.
44. Dennis Tuttle, “Still Slingin’: The Sammy Baugh Story,” unpublished manuscript, as cited in Prime and Nowlin, Ted Williams, 20 and 21.
45. Boston Evening American, March 8, 1939.
46. Interview with Bill “Lefty” LeFebvre, November 12, 2002.
47. Williams with Underwood, My Turn at Bat, 49.
48. Golenbock, Fenway, 121.
49. Johnson and Stout, Ted Williams, 15.
50. Williams with Underwood, My Turn at Bat, 48.
51. Undated 1955 Sid Hartman column in the Minneapolis Tribune; and the Boston Globe, June 8, 1955.
52. Minneapolis Journal, September 5, 1938.
53. Linn, Hitter, 91.
54. Williams with Underwood, My Turn at Bat, 49–50.
55. Ibid., 50.
56. Ibid., 49.
57. Boston Globe, December 7, 1959.
58. Minneapolis Morning Tribune, January 29, 1958.
59. Unpublished interview with Donie Bush by Time’s Ed Ogle, March 27, 1950.
60. Linn, Hitter, 92.
61. Williams with Underwood, My Turn at Bat, 55.
62. Ibid., 55 and 56.
63. Nowlin, The Kid, 180.
64. Linn, Hitter, 92 and 93.
65. Interview with Bill “Lefty” LeFebvre, November 12, 2002.
66. Linn, Hitter, 92 and 93.
67. Undated 1955 Sid Hartman column in the Minneapolis Tribune.
Chapter 4: Big Time
1. Boston Herald, March 8, 1939.
2. Ibid.
3. Boston Post, March 7, 1939.
4. Boston Evening American, April 14, 1939.
5. Boston Evening American, March 8, 1939.
6. Harold Kaese notes, the Harold Kaese Collection of the Boston Public Library.
7. Unpublicized Cramer–Williams brawl. The Cramer–Williams fight was witnessed by the late Charles Caliri, then a Boston high school baseball standout who was attending a tryout staged by the Red Sox for local prospects. As related in an interview with Caliri’s brother, Victor Caliri, on September 12, 2007.
8. Boston Globe, March 10, 1939.
9. Boston Daily Record, March 15, 1939.
10. Dawidoff, The Catcher Was a Spy, 119.
11. Ibid., 98 and 105.
12. Boston Transcript, March 22, 1939.
13. Associated Press, July 13, 1939.
14. Boston Evening American, March 22, 1960.
15. Boston Globe, April 2, 1939.
16. Boston Globe, April 3, 1939.
17. Williams with Underwood, My Turn at Bat, 60.
18. Interview with Phil Wilkinson, March 2, 2005.
19. Interview with Bettye Roberts, October 29, 2005.
20. Interview with George B. Daniels, November 1, 2005.
21. Boston Globe, April 6, 1989.
22. Interview with John Harrington, April 7, 2005.
23. Interview with Ralph Ford Jr., November 1, 2005. (Ford died on February 7, 2008.)
24. Interview with John Harrington, April 7, 2005.
25. Interview with Wallace Hampton Lawrimore, November 7, 2005. (Lawrimore died on May 4, 2009.)
26. Williams with Underwood, My Turn at Bat, 60 and 61.
27. Undated Williams interview with Dick Hackenberg of the Minneapolis Star, the winter after the 1939 season.
28. Williams with Underwood, My Turn at Bat, 61.
29. Boston Globe, April 22, 1939.
30. Boston Herald, April 23, 1939.
31. Boston Evening American, April 27, 1939.
32. Interview with Elden Auker, July 14, 2005.
33. Williams with Underwood, My Turn at Bat, 75.
34. Ibid.
35. Ibid., 76 and 77.
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.
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