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    <body><![CDATA[A touching look at the lifelong friendship of four men, culminating in an emotional last visit to the home of the dying hero, Ted Williams.<br/><br/>It was a quick read, and pleasant.  I found that it lacked some emotional depth for me, and that the entirety of this book was covered with more incl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66969103">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great narrative of the core players of the 1940s Red Sox teams - Ted Williams, Bobby Doerr, Johnny Pesky, and Dominic Dimaggio - and how their lives are intertwined through baseball and friendship.  Though the team never won a World Series and lost a few pennants by one game, the players formed bond...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51221294">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This &quot;book&quot; contains some interesting anecdotes and provides a warm, sentimental portral of the friendships among Ted Willaims and three of his teammates from the 1940's.  It starts off, however, as a story about a trip to Florida to visit a dying Williams by two of the three.  There is ve...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28410973">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another Halberstam sports classic, focusing on the bond between Ted Williams, Dom DiMaggio, Johnny Pesky, and Bobby Doer during their playing days with the Boston Red Sox.  If you like learning about baseball history and Ted Williams, this is a quick, solid read.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[En Octubre del 2001, Dom DiMaggio, Johnny Pesky y Dick Flavin recorren 1300 millas hasta Florida para visitar a Ted Williams en sus ultimos dias. Es un libro lleno de anecdotas y mucha nostalgia sobre la vida de estos peloteros.  Un libro muy ameno.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[With Dom Dimaggio's passing I thought it was a good opportunity to read this amazing book about the bonds and friendship of Dom, Ted Williams, Bobby Doer and Johnny Pesky.  It's also about growing old, and of course the Red Sox.  Great book!]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Feb 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a pretty good &quot;Portrait of a Friendship&quot; between four stars of the Boston Red Sox - Ted Williams, Dom Dimaggio, Johnny Pesky and Bobby Doerr.  An entertaining read - would be better if I were more of a Red Sox fan.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A very quick read - found myself nearly three-fourths of the way done in my first sitting.  I'm not a huge Halberstam fan - I can appreciate his work and his legacy, but his writing tends to tie itself in knots, and some of his sentences go on for miles.  That said, if you can work through his tongu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23415608">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like this book a lot. Great insight into Ted Williams. There's a priceless exchange between Ted Williams and Carl Yastrzemski. If you love the Sox, you'll love this book.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really like this book!  Being a long-time Red Sox fan who was NOT alive during the heyday (1940's) it was extremely interesting to get into the personal lives and backstory of the players that are now legends.  <br/><br/>The author had an incredible way of bringing out the players characteristic...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14833498">more...</a>]]></body>
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