Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu
September 28, 2005
45 years ago today, Ted Williams homered in his last at-bat in the majors. Soon after, John Updike wrote his New Yorker essay about the moment, including perhaps the most eloquent sentence ever written about baseball, “For me, Williams is the classic ballplayer of the game on a hot August weekday, before a small crowd, when the only thing at stake is the tissue-thin difference between a thing done well and a thing done ill.”
Now that I have The Complete New Yorker
Posted by Bill Trippe at September 28, 2005 10:22 AM
