American Masters

I liked the anticipation I guess that was it the anticipation of what might happen He was almost a God-like figure... He's a baseball God. He was a beauty to watch. His swing was a work of art. His bat being the brush and Fenway Park is the canvas. He was obsessed with hitting. He was so focused and when you're that focused you can't really be a great husband. When you're that focused you're not really a great father. He actively concealed that he was Mexican-American. Ted Williams parents who never saw him play a single game of major league baseball He had a boiling anger. The world hates me. Everybody's against me. And I'm gonna show them. He said in order to hit 400 he says you gotta be loose. When he walked in the room even if you didn't know one thing about baseball you'd say, "That's somebody. Who's that?" Any sport, anything really whether it be tying a fly, he wanted to be the best. I got down to low and I got hit with small ground fire. The plane was on fire. I said well if there's a goddam Christ, this is the time ol' Teddy Ballgame needs ya. I said, you are John Wayne. And he goes, yeah, I know it. It is really, really difficult to be the queen on the chessboard. When people criticized him, he lashed out at them I think he was lonely. I think that he had a difficulty making attachments. There was not that big a crowd that day, only about 10,000 but they were all standing and you knew what they wanted and can you deliver in that situation? He wasn't the kind of person that would go, oh, I'm sorry, come here I'll give you a hug. Well, goddamit, why are you mad, why are you upset. What happened? And his hands were bleeding. Perhaps one day we might see him again. Everything about him is interesting in this gnarled, difficult way. What's the matter with him? You constantly ask about that. What's wrong with this guy? What a weirdo. What a great hitter. Ha.