The Teammates Audiobook (Free)

More than 6 years after his death David Halberstam remains among this country’s esteemed journalists and revered government bodies on American existence and history in the years since WWII. A Pulitzer Prize-winner for his ground-breaking reporting in the Vietnam War, Halberstam wrote a lot more than 20 books, almost all of them bestsellers. His function has stood the check of period and is just about the standard where all journalists measure themselves.

The Teammates is the profoundly moving story of four about The Teammates great baseball players who’ve made the passage from sports icons–when they were young and seemingly indestructible–to men dealing with the vulnerabilities of getting older. At the core of the reserve is the companionship of the four completely different men–Boston Crimson Sox teammates Bobby Doerr, Dominic DiMaggio, Johnny Pesky, and Ted Williams–who continued to be close for a lot more than sixty years.

The book starts out in early October 2001, when Dominic DiMaggio and Johnny Pesky commence a 1,300-mile trip by car to visit their beloved friend Ted Williams, whom they know is dying. Bobby Doerr, the fourth member of this close group–‘my men,’ Williams utilized to call them–is struggling to sign up for them.This is a book–filled with historical points and first-hand accounts–about baseball and about something more: the richness of friendship.