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I decided to mix it up and use a different template for my NONFICTION reads in #2024ReadingBrackets because why not? 🤷🏻‍♀️ February‘s pick was this detailed biography of baseball legend Ted Williams. And I don‘t have to pick between it and January‘s book by Jamie Raskin, which was also great. Winning! 🏆

Completed my “Chunkster” read for #ChunksterChallenge2024. This biography of Red Sox great Ted Williams is well-written and very readable. A lot about baseball, yes —but also much about Ted‘s childhood, his troubled personal life —and all the gory details you can handle about his head being frozen for posterity. 😳 Definitely recommend, @GinaKButler !

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Where are my fellow journalist peeps? I‘m reading a bio of Ted Williams and came across this paragraph, which made me laugh out loud. My husband wanted to know what was so funny, so I read it to him. He still didn‘t get it. I told him, trust me — if you are a journalist, it‘s funny!! 😄

Finally settled on my “official” book for #ChunksterChallenge2024 — a biography of baseball legend Ted Williams, written by newspaper legend Ben Bradlee, Jr. At 864 pages, it‘s a bit shorter than my usual annual chunkster picks. But this year I‘m taking my cues from @GinaKButler and @Kelly326 and aiming to read several large chunks throughout the year. Viva la chunkster! 🙂

While a naturally enjoyable tale of the breaking of one of the sports world's longest-standing curses, I ultimately found this one hard to get through. This was thanks, in large part, to the proliferation of - pardon the pun - inside baseball that ran rampant through the pages. The frequent use of jargon made the action difficult to follow. Despite this, King and O'Nan are engaging writers, and their disbelief and eventual joy are palpable. 4/5

I‘m not surprised that I‘m the first person to review this book on Litsy. I picked up and put down so many books during my recent 3 week illness. This one at least held my interest in between naps. The book was written immediately following the fantastic 2004 Boston Red Sox season which resulted in a World Series win. My family will always remember this season. Damon‘s recounting of events brought up so many memories of a great bunch of players.

Updike, in his fluid prose, writes a stunning piece after he attended Ted Williams‘s last game at Fenway Park in 1960. ⚾️ ⚾️ Wonderful, as if you‘re sitting right there with him

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@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I think our evenings may be similar. Lol.

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Roger Angell, longtime fiction editor and sports writer for The New Yorker, passed away last year at the age of 101. So it‘s about time I read some of his baseball essays. Five Seasons is a collection of 16 essays about baseball, World Series, the beginning of free agency, and scouts. His writing is clear and engaging. His love of the game, and his fears for its future are clear throughout. Non fans can simply enjoy the well crafted prose.

This weird winter weather has me counting down the hours until opening day. I decided re-listening to this fan diary from the 2004 season would help. It was a fun walk down memory lane.