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by John Underwood

Author:	John Underwood
Subcategory:	Biographies
Language:	English
Publisher:	Triumph Books; Har/Com edition (April 1, 2005)
Pages:	256 pages
Category:	Outdoors and Sports
Rating:	4.4
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Reminiscent of bestseller Tuesdays With Morrie, It's Only Me allows the private side of Williams to educate and entertain baseball fans more than they ever imagined before. Read on the Scribd mobile app.

Read unlimited books and audiobooks on the web, iPad, iPhone and Android. Reminiscent of bestseller Tuesdays With Morrie, It's Only Me allows the private side of Williams to educate and entertain baseball fans more than they ever imagined before. Download the free Scribd mobile app to read anytime, anywhere.

Like Ted Williams, John Underwood may be the last of the. A book written objectively, fairly, from the inside. Published by Thriftbooks. Great book by John Underwood! Those familiar with many Ted Williams books and articles will recognize some of the stories in the book, but anything with Ted talking "off the cuff" is great. The CD recording included with the book of Ted giving his opinions, experiences and thoughts is priceless!

It's only me. the Ted Williams we hardly knew. Published 2005 by Triumph Books in Chicago, Ill. Baseball players, In library, Biography. Ted Williams (1918-). There's no description for this book yet.

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Almost everyone knows the public Ted Williams: the great hitter, the war hero, the avid outdoorsman and the man who seemed to be a lightning rod for controversy his whole life. Fewer know the very private Ted, and fewer still knew him as well as his friend and confidante of over 30 years, John Underwood. From vacations off the Florida Keys, to African Safaris to the beaches of Costa Rica, Underwood and Williams vacationed together and got to know each as close personal friends.

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Fewer know the very private Ted, and fewer still knew him as well as his friend and confidante of over 30 years, John Underwood. Underwood draws on both his private recordings with Williams and his personal experiences to craft a book about what he learned from his friendship.

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Ever wonder what it would be like to go back in time to have a conversation with a legend? Its Only Me: The Ted Williams We Hardly Knew allows readers to experience the baseball greats views and personality through the immediacy of recorded conversations and personal stories. Author John Underwood has collected the most powerful and poignant moments from his previously unreleased archive of discussions with Williams to set the record straight on a misunderstood icon. This book and its audio CD companion paint a sensitive and nuanced portrait of an American icon, one that reveals a side of Williams character and personality never before glimpsed by the American public. Its Ted Williams at his most unguarded.

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Mysterious Wrench

I,m a Ted Williams fan and enjoy reading about him.

INvait

If you grew up in the 1940s and 1950s, and were a baseball fan, you may want to read this book. If you grew up in Boston during that time span, you may not want to read this book. During his professional playing days in Boston, Williams was either liked or disliked intensely. There was no middle ground. He did not go out of his way to endear himself to the Boston fans, and had an almost contemptible attitude toward sportswriters---with one exception, the author of this book. Their unique, thirty-year friendship and collaboration, both professionally and personally, allowed the author to obtain a privileged and naturalistic perspective of probably the most misunderstood baseball player of all time.

Williams was not only the most skilled batter to ever swing at a baseball, but a World War II and Korean war hero as a Marine fighter pilot, a Hall of Fame class sport fisherman and hunter, and had an inimitable personality to boot. John Underwood first chronicles his subject's isolated upbringing to try to explain how Williams developed his prickly personality with the Boston sportswriters and fans during his playing days. And along the way, Underwood peels back the layers of the real Ted Williams, someone only but his closest friends and associates had the privilige of knowing.

In this portrait written after Williams' death, the author will reveal how genuine of a person Williams really was, his dislike of phoniness in anyone, leading many in the public, especially in the press, to misread him. They will learn of his private generosity. Additionally, the reader will discover the sacrifices he made to his career to serve his country, and how he held a deferential view of his financial worth in his chosen career of professional baseball---something that would be extremely unbelievable in modern times.

The author closes the last chapter on Williams' life by tragically recounting how William' only son, the paranoiac John-Henry, literally turned his debilitated father, during his final days, into a money-making autograph machine, for his own financial benefit, and capped that humiliation with the bizarre cryogenic treatment of Williams' body after death to further capitalize on his fame.

Umi

For all the books written about Ted Williams and his ability to hit a baseball better than anyone who has ever lived, this is a fantastic little book to read if you want to really understand this complicated man. Written by one of Ted's long-time friends and confidants, the book is unusually objective, showing Ted's flaws without apology. Ted had a temper and could be thoughtless, even cruel, and that comes through. So does the rest of Ted's character. When you finish this book, you will probably, like me, "miss" Ted just as the author does.

My favorite little incident has Ted cursing a stray cat that's been hanging around his door. Then, after preparing breakfast for his guests, he sets a plate of scraps by the door for that cat. "No point in it going to waste," he gruffly says. Reading this made me smile. Ted, do you suppose the da** cat hangs around your door so much, because you feed it? A clear example of a famous and profound saying: Actions speak louder than words. Ted curses the cat, but feeds it.

I've always been a big Ted Williams fan. Reading this book has made me even more enthusiastically in Ted's corner, and it has also given me a very clear picture of his dark side. A wonderful book, fair, honest, warm, and very well worth buying and reading.

By the way, the CD that comes with this book, Ted talking about his crash landing in Korea and other assorted subjects, should be listened to after reading the book. First get to know the man, then hear his voice, and it all comes together.

Bumand

Ted Williams was one of a kind but he hated the media. He loved John Underwood and John gives us a fascinating look at Ted's personality. The audio disc is awesome.

Togar

I was a Joe DiMaggio fan and never cared for Ted Williams much, knowing what I did about his antics while playing baseball. It took me a long time to start this book. I found that under the gruff hard shell of this man was a genuine hero to be looked up to. Spending 26 years in the military myself, I was shocked and awed to find that Ted had given up 5 prime time baseball seasons to fly a fighter jet in the Marines for two wars when called by his country. How many players today would do that? I was touched by his feeding a stray cat after swearing at it for hanging around his back door. I was moved by Ted volunteering to spend his time giving autographs and supporting a charitable cause and asking for nothing in return. I was truly impressed that he went to his manager after having a season that was below his standards and asking for a pay reduction. I also found out that his real love was for fishing, and the book has some interesting and comical sidelights of his experiences. I think every ballplayer today should read this book and ask themselves how they stack up to Ted Williams. As for me, I still love Joe DiMaggio, an outstanding ballplayer and a gentleman, but Ted is now my hero. The enclosed CD with a live discussion with Ted is a golden bonus.

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