I have an interesting postscript to John Miles’ article on the famous ballplayer [“‘The Thumper’ Goes to War”]. As a boy I would watch Ted Williams in awe when the Red Sox stopped in Charleston, S.C., to play an exhibition game against the local team on their way north after spring training.
In early August 1953 I was a patient in what is now Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, having graduated a month before