The Teammates; A Portrait of a Friendship

Halberstam, David

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Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: Hyperion, New York, 2003

140130057X / 9781401300579

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[6], 217, [1] pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations. Appendix (statistics). Slight soiling to DJ. David Halberstam (April 10, 1934 ? April 23, 2007) was an American journalist and historian, known for his work on the Vietnam War, politics, history, the Civil Rights Movement, business, media, American culture, and later, sports journalism. He won a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1964. Halberstam was killed in a car crash in 2007, while doing research for a book. Halberstam's journalism career began at the Daily Times Leader in West Point, Mississippi, the smallest daily newspaper in Mississippi. He covered the beginnings of the Civil Rights Movement for The Tennessean in Nashville. John Lewis later stated that Halberstam was the only journalist in Nashville who would cover the Nashville sit-ins. Halberstam?s fiery, rebellious streak first came out when covering the civil rights movement as he protested against the lies of the authorities who portrayed the civil rights protesters as violent and dangerous. Halberstam received the George Polk Award for Foreign Reporting in 1963 for his reporting for The New York Times, including his eyewitness account of the self-immolation of Vietnamese Buddhist monk, Thích Qu ng c. Halberstam left Vietnam in 1964, at age 30, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting that year. Later in his career, Halberstam turned to sports, publishing The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship, focusing on the relationships among several members of the Boston Red Sox in the 1940s. Derived from a Kirkus review: Affectionate, informed, and smooth-as-cream portrait of four Boston Red Sox greats, Ted Williams, Johnny Pesky, Dom DiMaggio, and Bobby Doerr, and their abiding friendship over many years. Even back then, it was ?something unusual for baseball: four men who played for one team, who became good friends, and remained friends for the rest of their lives.? Now, writes Halberstam, with free agency creating volatility in the rosters and salaries serving to lessen the connection between teammates, this story of Ted Williams, Dom DiMaggio, Bobby Doerr, and Johnny Pesky is especially poignant. All four were Bosox stars in the 1940s and Halberstam re-creates many of the great moments of that decade, though perhaps even more enjoyable here are the sweet nuggets and inside observations of the men?of Pesky taking the fall for a bad play by Leon Culberson that lost the 1946 World Series because of the code mandating one player never point a finger at another, and reminiscing of Yankee pitcher Spud Chandler and tuning in to excerpts from the Ted Williams Lecture Series. Halberstam, always a welcome sportswriter, finely delineates the personalities: Doerr's preternatural emotional equilibrium, the guileless Pesky, Williams?s contentiousness, animal energy, and generosity. He also provides enough family history to give a sense of how extraordinary it was these four men came to be such great players, and how each in turn readily acknowledged their great good fortune at having been able to be part of the game at all. And the story lightly revolves around a car trip by Pesky, DiMaggio, and humorist Dick Flavin for a last visit with the rapidly dwindling Williams, highlighting the fact that all of the men may soon be gone and with them a classy style of play no longer in evidence. A string of pearly anecdotes that reverberate far beyond the diamond. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated].…

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Titel
The Teammates; A Portrait of a Friendship
Autor
Halberstam, David
Verlag
Hyperion, New York
Erscheinungsjahr
2003
Zustand
Very good
Schutzumschlag
very good
Einband
Hardcover
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN-10
140130057X
ISBN-13
9781401300579
Auflage
1. Auflage

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