The Teammates
Written by David Halberstam
Narrated by Tate Donovan
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The Teammates is the profoundly moving story of four great baseball players who have made the passage from sports icons--when they were young and seemingly indestructible--to men dealing with the vulnerabilities of growing older. At the core of the book is the friendship of these four very different men--Boston Red Sox teammates Bobby Doerr, Dominic DiMaggio, Johnny Pesky, and Ted Williams--who remained close for more than sixty years.
The book starts out in early October 2001, when Dominic DiMaggio and Johnny Pesky begin a 1,300-mile trip by car to visit their beloved friend Ted Williams, whom they know is dying. Bobby Doerr, the fourth member of this close group--"my guys," Williams used to call them--is unable to join them.This is a book--filled with historical details and first-hand accounts--about baseball and about something more: the richness of friendship.
David Halberstam
David Halberstam was one of America's most distinguished journalists and historians, a man whose newspaper reporting and books have helped define the era we live in. He graduated from Harvard in 1955, took his first job on the smallest daily in Mississippi, and then covered the early civil rights struggle for the Nashville Tennessean. He joined The New York Times in 1960, went overseas almost immediately, first to the Congo and then to Vietnam. His early pessimistic dispatches from Vietnam won him the Pulitzer in 1964 at the age of thirty. His last twelve books, starting with The Best and the Brightest and including The Powers That Be, The Reckoning, and The Fifties, have all been national bestsellers. Thirty-eight years after Mr. Halberstam won the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting in Vietnam, War in a Time of Peace was the runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize. He died in April 2007.
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Reviews for The Teammates
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5As a big fan of baseball, I really enjoyed this short book on four of the greats from my favorite team - the Red Sox. This book covers the lives and friendships of Booby Doerr, Johnny Pesky, Ted Williams, and Dom Dimaggio. Halberstam, who is a terrific writer, did a great job of weaving in background history and baseball stories and I would highly recommend this to all baseball fans.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A good read about the bonds between teammates and a look back at those Sox from the "good old days" (though the good old days are happening right now... or at least the last decade or so, for the most part).
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Just a good book about aging athletes, friendship and the Red Sox.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Surprisingly little on the years these guys played together on the Red Sox--what makes them of interest in the first place. But Halberstam manages to make us interested in these guys as men rather than players. I could easily have been disappointed, but I'm not. Though a few chapters on their glory years would have been to the good.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A portrait of the friendship of Ted Williams, Dom DiMaggio, Johnny Pesky and Bobby Doerr who all played for the Boston Red Sox and stayed close to each other for 60 years.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5It's October 2001. Johnny Pesky, Dominic DiMaggio and Dick Flavin are on their way to Florida. Friend Bobby Doerr unfortunately cannot make the trip. Their purpose? One final visit with Ted Williams, friend and baseball legend, who is very close to death. Admittedly, I don't know very much about baseball and the great players of yore. Of course, I know their names and that they are revered, but I don't have a brain for statistics and I wasn't alive to see how these players got to be the legends they are today. I've watched baseball my entire life, but not MLB until college. I bought this book for my dad a number of years ago - he being the man that instilled a love of baseball in me - and he never read it (my mother claims he's "saving it for retirement"), so I've been in a baseball mood (having watched the 18+ hours of Ken Burns' "Baseball" documentary) and decided to pick it up while I waited for my boyfriend to finish our book club book. I liked learning more about these men - they are, after all, the greats from my team. And it felt appropriate to read after the recent passing of Dominic DiMaggio - he comes across as the biggest hero of this tale. However, something was missing for me. I can't put my finger on it, though. I think perhaps I am too woefully ignorant of these men's backstories that I couldn't fully appreciate the story of their friendship. For me, this book almost felt like the bare bones of the story - yes, there is information about each man's baseball career, and his childhood, and his life post-baseball, and how they've managed to stay in touch, but something was still lacking. I'm definitely glad I read it - I appreciate each player more now and I want to expand my knowledge about them.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This was a quick enjoyable listen.I liked the story about Ted Williams signing a baseball for a pitcher who struck him out with the ball.He then went on to hit a huge home run against the same pitcher. As he was rounding the bases he said:"If you can find it, I'll sign that son-of-a-bitch too!"
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Great story of the man Ted Williams and his closest friends...Dom Dimaggio, Johnny Pesky, and Bobby Doerr
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I used to be a big Red Sox fan, before they became a self-pitying mob, engaged in some self-victimized group think. What a bunch of whiners. I loved the forties teams with Ted Williams, Bob Doerr, Johnny Pesky, and Dom DiMaggio. This is their story, not as players, but as men in their twilight years. More importantly, it is the story of three great players who always lived under the hot light cast by Williams, perhaps the most brilliant, publicly annoying man that ever played the game (one of my baseball heroes, I might add,)and how they prepare for his approaching death. It is an affecting story, well told by David Halberstam.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Quick but fun read. Baseball fans of any age would like this book.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5David Halberstam Teammates: A Portrait of Friendship is a wonderful baseball book that transcends the game, by turns heartwarming and heartbreaking. It is the story of four Boston Red Sox teammates - Ted Williams, Bobby Doerr, Dom DiMaggio, and Johnny Pesky - who after their playing days remained lifelong friends. Halberstam chronicles their personalities, their interrelationships, their careers (and a marvelous recap of the pivotal play in the seventh game of the 1946 Red Sox-Cardinals World Series), all leading to DiMaggio and Pesky’s October 2001 road trip to pay a final visit to Williams, his health failing, in his last dying days.