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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 796.3570924 EAN: 9780671634230 Edition: Rep Sub ISBN: 0671634232 Label: Fireside Manufacturer: Fireside Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: March 15, 1988 Publisher: Fireside Studio: Fireside Editorial Review: Product Description: Now available for the first time in years, My Turn at Bat is Ted Williams' own story of his spectacular life and baseball career. An acclaimed best-seller, My Turn at Bat now features new photographs and, for the first time, Ted's reflections on his managing career and the state of baseball as it is played in the 1980s. It's all here in this brilliant, honest and sometimes angry autobiography -- Williams' childhood days in San Diego, his military service, his unforgettable major league baseball debut and ensuing Hall of Fame career that included two Triple Crowns, two Most Valuable Player awards, six batting championships, five Sporting News awards as Major League Player of the Year, 521 lifetime homeruns and a .344 career batting average. And Williams tells his side of the controversies, from his battles with sportswriters and Boston fans to his single World Series performance and his career with the declining Red Sox of the 1950s. My Turn at Bat belongs in the library of everyone who loves Ted Williams, baseball, or great life stories well-told. Red Barber proclaimed My Turn at Bat to be: "One of the best baseball books I've ever read." John Leonard of The New York Times said My Turn at Bat was "unbuttoned and wholly engaging...the portrait of an original who is unrepentant about being better than anyone else." Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Unrepentant and unapologetic Ted Williams on the life of Ted WilliamsThis book, in Williams' own words, is a biased, yet largely honest appraisal of his life and career as a player. Written in 1970, approximately one decade after he retired as a player and shortly after he re-entered the game as a manager, Williams was still young enough to be assertive about his role in the game. He shows no repentance for his actions, time has not yet mellowed Williams, a fact that helped lead to his dismissal as a manager shortly after the book was published. There is ... Read More Rating:  - WOW Teddy can rambleInteresting book, it appears to have been written as if Teddy Baseball were speaking into a tape recorder. Strange at times but VERY enjoyable!! Rating: - In His Own WordsIn its original printing, "My Turn at Bat" was a real eye opener for those seeking the real story of Ted Williams. Continuously battered by negative media attention throughout his playing days, myth and scandal seemed to terrorize Williams. While Williams may not have always made the best public relations decisions through his career, he may in fact be the greatest hitter in baseball history. This is his story in his own words. Though some biographies go into greater detail about ... Read More Rating: - From the hipIn his autobiography, legendary Ted Williams details his illustrious career in baseball with a wide spectrum of human emotions. From passion to disparity, Williams tells it like it is. He blasts sports writers for their one sidedness's and fabrications, talks highly and respectful of many managers, players and close friends, and above all he talks baseball...especially hitting. Losing nearly six years to military service and injuries, there is a strong possibility that Williams would ... Read More Rating: - Good Hot Stove League"My Turn at Bat" is a biography of the late Ted Williams, slugging left fielder for the Boston Red Sox from 1939-1960. MYB is very pleasant and easy reading. The tone is conversational, as if there were no ghostwriter. The reader might almost believe Ted is present in the room. There are few surprises. The tale unfolds in linear fashion from TWs childhood through his career-ending homer against young Jack Fisher of the Orioles. The reader of "a certain age" will be reintroduced to some old friends ... Read More |
