(But if it's any consolation to them, Mr. Ritter's interviewees regarded the ballplayers of the 1960's as pampered crybabies, too).
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.
He wrote: "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".
— August 22 , 1959From "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu," a sports piece 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.
— August 22 , 1959________ From "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu," a sports piece 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.
He was always much better than the average ballplayer of the 1950s or 1960s who earned $10-15,000 10-15,000r a career that lasted onlyearfor years at the Major League level.
So it's a fitting moment to revisit the man still widely revered as the best ballplayer of them all.
In the best-selling book "Game of Shadows," Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams suggest that Bonds was stung by all the joyful attention showered upon Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa during the record-chasing summer of 1998, and set about rededicating himself, in his mid-thirties, to the task of being properly recognized for what he already was: the best ballplayer of his era.
Though only a few of them had actually seen Gehrig play, all spoke warmly of the ballplayer and were proud of his connection to Columbia.
And weaving through the mob, in various states of dress, were the ballplayers, most of whom I recognized from TV but had ever seen only across rows and rows of stadium seats.
