The CAB Ride Turned 3 Today!

Happy 140th to the Boston Globe.

The line is already to the door for opening of #BEA14. Where is the BookTV bus?

My actual #Christmas gift from my sister. #MyFirstBarbie

Important stuff.

Who really makes money in streaming music? This is the contract Sony doesn’t want you to see.

Ted Williams: “I don’t guess what they throw.” 

An exclusive excerpt from “The Kid” by Ben Bradlee, Jr.:  Williams pioneered the use of a lighter bat—once considered heresy for sluggers—arguing that bat speed, not heft, was the key to power. His entire career, Ted studied pitchers intently for their tendencies, and quizzed hitters about what a pitcher threw to him in what situation. “Ted always said: ‘I don’t guess what they throw. I figure what they’re going to throw,’” says Tom Wright, a backup outfielder and pinch hitter for the Sox from 1948-1951.

(PHOTO: Ted Williams with the Minneapolis Millers, 1938. National Baseball Hall of Fame Library.)

Ted loved to cruise around

An exclusive excerpt from Ben Bradlee, Jr.’s “The Kid”:

Ted couldn’t afford his own car as a kid, but loved to cruise around San Diego with those who did have wheels. Bill Skelley, a teammate of Ted’s on the 1937 Padres, had a 1929 maroon Chrysler roadster, and they’d glide down Broadway with the top down, or zip through Balboa Park. When they passed a golf course, and someone was getting ready to tee off, Ted would reach over and honk the horn to try and disrupt the golfer. “Just fooling around,” Skelley says.

Girls? Forget it. “I never went out with girls, never had any dates, not until I was much more mature-looking,” Ted wrote in his autobiography. “A girl looked at me twice, I’d run the other way.” 

(Photo:  Ted Williams tipping his hat at the 1999 All-Star Game at Fenway Park.)

And this guy came over for lunch, well actually to just eat the front grass. #whatsblackandwhiteandreadallover

Just started this novel that was a Christmas gift. And this Version of STONER comes with a Thomas Eakins portrait.

Great shot of "The Kid". The definitive biography of Ted Williams is coming from Little, Brown this December from author Ben Bradlee Jr. 

Ted Williams

Spring Training

1971

Photo: Ozzie Sweet/ Sport Magazine

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After the #TonyAwards are over, I thinking @dianeborger might need some summer reading, curated by me.