THE KID by Ben Bradlee, Jr. - Initial Impression:
After missing the PBS documentary which was, at least in part, supposedly based on it, I purchased The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams by Ben Bradlee, Jr. - it arrived today.
I did not check the details prior to buying...just dove right in.
It's massive, 784 pages of text! So I, never a prodigious reader, will be working on this for quite a while.
I always check the photo plates as soon as a new book arrives and I was very disappointed to find a photo of Ted and someone who definitely is not who they say it is...Mickey Mantle.
I'm used to finding statistically errors in the Baseball books I purchase, but I never expected to find such an obvious error involving the image of someone so well known.
I do hope that the book itself will be more accurate than the photo in question.
Obviously, I cannot recommend the book at this time, but I'll share my thoughts once I get through it.
-Raymond
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