The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship
Danny Says
I’m a sucker for baseball stories, and Halberstam’s book (told ingeniously using flashbacks as Dominic DiMaggio and Johnny Pesky drive 1,300 miles to visit their former teammate and beloved dying friend Ted Williams) chronicles the bonds of four legendary Boston Red Sox during the 1940s. This book will move even Yankee fans. It reinforced my depression over Halberstam’s early death a few years ago in a car accident that left a lot of us wondering how many great future books were stolen from us on that tragic day. Two words: Read Halberstam. He is masterful.