WEBVTT 00:02.469 --> 00:06.606 align:left position:0%,start line:80% size:100% I liked the anticipation I guess that was it the anticipation of what might happen 00:09.609 --> 00:11.878 align:left position:25%,start line:86.67% size:75% He was almost a God-like figure... 00:11.878 --> 00:13.346 align:left position:12.5%,start line:93.33% size:87.5% He's a baseball God. 00:13.346 --> 00:14.881 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% He was a beauty to watch. 00:14.881 --> 00:16.716 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% His swing was a work of art. 00:16.716 --> 00:19.452 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% His bat being the brush and Fenway Park is the canvas. 00:20.453 --> 00:21.254 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% He was obsessed with hitting. 00:23.289 --> 00:25.191 align:left position:0%,start line:80% size:100% He was so focused and when you're that focused you can't really be a great husband. 00:26.593 --> 00:27.694 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% When you're that focused you're not really a great father. 00:28.962 --> 00:33.433 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% He actively concealed that he was Mexican-American. 00:33.433 --> 00:35.802 align:left position:0%,start line:80% size:100% Ted Williams parents who never saw him play a single game of major league baseball 00:36.736 --> 00:39.672 align:left position:12.5%,start line:93.33% size:87.5% He had a boiling anger. 00:39.672 --> 00:42.075 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% The world hates me. Everybody's against me. 00:42.075 --> 00:44.477 align:left position:12.5%,start line:93.33% size:87.5% And I'm gonna show them. 00:44.477 --> 00:45.845 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% He said in order to hit 400 he says you gotta be loose. 00:48.181 --> 00:51.084 align:left position:0%,start line:80% size:100% When he walked in the room even if you didn't know one thing about baseball you'd say, 00:51.951 --> 00:52.652 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% "That's somebody. Who's that?" 00:54.587 --> 00:57.824 align:left position:0%,start line:80% size:100% Any sport, anything really whether it be tying a fly, he wanted to be the best. 00:59.492 --> 01:00.727 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% I got down to low and I got hit with small ground fire. 01:01.728 --> 01:04.197 align:left position:12.5%,start line:93.33% size:87.5% The plane was on fire. 01:04.197 --> 01:06.666 align:left position:0%,start line:80% size:100% I said well if there'’s a goddam Christ, this is the time ol'’ Teddy Ballgame needs ya. 01:08.201 --> 01:11.704 align:left position:0%,start line:86.67% size:100% I said, you are John Wayne. And he goes, yeah, I know it. 01:13.773 --> 01:18.244 align:left position:0%,start line:80% size:100% It is really, really difficult to be the queen on the chessboard. 01:19.712 --> 01:20.680 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% When people criticized him, he lashed out at them 01:22.549 --> 01:25.685 align:left position:0%,start line:80% size:100% I think he was lonely. I think that he had a difficulty making attachments. 01:25.685 --> 01:26.753 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% There was not that big a crowd that day, only about 01:28.488 --> 01:31.925 align:left position:12.5%,start line:80% size:87.5% 10,000 but they were all standing and you knew what they wanted and can you 01:31.925 --> 01:32.759 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% deliver in that situation? 01:35.095 --> 01:38.798 align:left position:0%,start line:80% size:100% He wasn'’t the kind of person that would go, oh, I'’m sorry, come here I'’ll give you a hug. 01:38.798 --> 01:41.201 align:left position:0%,start line:80% size:100% Well, goddamit, why are you mad, why are you upset. What happened? 01:41.201 --> 01:43.503 align:left position:0%,start line:93.33% size:100% And his hands were bleeding. 01:43.503 --> 01:46.906 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% Perhaps one day we might see him again. 01:46.906 --> 01:50.243 align:left position:12.5%,start line:80% size:87.5% Everything about him is interesting in this gnarled, difficult way. 01:52.278 --> 01:55.448 align:left position:0%,start line:80% size:100% What's the matter with him? You constantly ask about that. What's wrong with this guy? 01:55.448 --> 01:56.716 align:left position:12.5%,start line:86.67% size:87.5% What a weirdo. What a great hitter. Ha.