Ted Williams and the 1969 Washington Senators

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• Table of ContentsIntroduction      1. War, Race and Baseball      2. Can’t You Hear That Rooster Crowing?      3. Shine Your Light on Me      4. Going Where the Sun Keeps Shining      5. Do You Want to Know a Secret?      6. Getting Better All the Time      7. Coming Into Los Angel-lees      8. Can’t Rewind, We’ve Gone Too Far      9. June, She’ll Change Her Tune      10. How Many Times Must the Cannon Balls Fly?      11. The Heat Is On      12. Moon Dance      13. Build a Ladder to the Stars      14. In for Nasty Weather      15. We Are Stardust, We Are Golden      16. Homeward Bound      17. Catching a Second Wind      18. For Now’s the Time for Your Tears      Epilogue      Appendix A. Career Statistics for Selected Senators Players      Appendix B. Washington Senators Schedule and Results, 1969      Chapter Notes      Bibliography      Index

“Ted Williams and the 1969 Washington Senators does not hit a false note on Ted Williams and digs into interesting aspects of the team and Williams as their manager. It is good work.”—Bill Nowlin, author of numerous books on Ted Williams, including Ted Williams at War, and is Vice President of the Society for American Baseball Research; “The book brings back that time so vividly. I remember it so well, it’s amazing.”—Dick Bosman, former 1969 Senators pitching great and current pitching coach for the Tampa Bay Rays “Ted Williams and the 1969 Washington Senators is very interesting, well researched, and well written.”—Mike Epstein, member of the 1969 Senators baseball team