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I liked the anticipation I guess 
that was it the anticipation of 
what might happen

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He was almost a 
God-like figure...

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He's a baseball God.

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He was a beauty to watch.

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His swing was a work of art.

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His bat being the brush and 
Fenway Park is the canvas.

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He was obsessed with hitting.

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He was so focused and when 
you're that focused you can't 
really be a great husband.

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When you're that focused you're 
not really a great father.

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He actively concealed that 
he was Mexican-American.

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Ted Williams parents who never 
saw him play a single game of 
major league baseball

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He had a boiling anger.

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The world hates me. 
Everybody's against me.

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And I'm gonna show them.

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He said in order to hit 400 
he says you gotta be loose.

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When he walked in the room even 
if you didn't know one thing 
about baseball you'd say,

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"That's somebody. Who's that?"

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Any sport, anything really 
whether it be tying a fly, he 
wanted to be the best.

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I got down to low and I got 
hit with small ground fire.

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The plane was on fire.

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I said well if there'’s a goddam 
Christ, this is the time ol'’ 
Teddy Ballgame needs ya.

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I said, you are John Wayne. 
And he goes, yeah, I know it.

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It is really, really difficult 
to be the queen on the 
chessboard.

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When people criticized 
him, he lashed out at them

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I think he was lonely. I think 
that he had a difficulty making 
attachments.

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There was not that big a 
crowd that day, only about

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10,000 but they were all 
standing and you knew what they 
wanted and can you

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deliver in that situation?

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He wasn'’t the kind of person 
that would go, oh, I'’m sorry, 
come here I'’ll give you a hug.

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Well, goddamit, why are you mad, 
why are you upset. What 
happened?

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And his hands were bleeding.

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Perhaps one day we 
might see him again.

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Everything about him is 
interesting in this gnarled, 
difficult way.

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What's the matter with him? You 
constantly ask about that. 
What's wrong with this guy?

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What a weirdo. What 
a great hitter. Ha.