The World According to Shawn
Tuesday, December 06, 2005
In my Sports writing class yesterday, our professor Chuck Fountain read a few excerpts from some of his favorite books. There was one that he read describing Ted Williams' final at -bat in 1961. Never did I imagine that words could come alive in this way, I wish I wrote down the name of the book it was from. It described in detail how Ted Williams got up to bat and the crowd started cheering, the cheers lasted for a few minutes, and all the while Williams was standing in the batters box ready to get the at-bat over with. After a while the Umpire signaled for the game to continue, and on the pitchers third pitch Williams completed his final performance by hitting a home run to center field. They way it was written was a hell of alot better than I could ever say it or try to transcribe it myself.
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