The Teammates (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: David Halberstam
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Time of Work: 2001, with flashbacks to the baseball days of four teammates now in their eighties
- Setting: Hernando, Florida; San Diego; San Francisco; Portland; Junction City, Oregon; Boston; Marion, Massachusetts; the Bronx; Cooperstown, New York; and Philadelphia
- Principal Characters: Ted Williams, Bobby Doerr, Dom DiMaggio, Johnny Pesky, Boo Ferris, Dick Flavin, Lou Kaufman
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: New York, Traveling or travelers, Twentieth century, Roads, streets, or highways, Friendship, Pennsylvania, California, Florida, Sick persons, Baseball, Athletes, Terminal illness or terminally ill, Sports, Fishing or fishermen, Old age or elderly people, Automobiles, Oregon, Massachusetts
- Locales: Boston, MA, Philadelphia, PA, San Francisco, CA, Florida, Bronx, NY, Portland, OR, San Diego, CA
“The memory of the heart is the longest.” With these words, Robert Sylvester ends “The Swede,” a story about the after-death apotheosis of a discredited football coach, modeled after Knute Rockne. The Teammates is a testament to the memory of the heart. It provides a tonic for disenchanted fans for whom professional baseball has become a game whose key plays are enacted off the field by owners, agents, and the moneymakers.
Although The Teammates qualifies as a baseball book and could be shelved with Roger Angell’s The Summer Game (1972) and David...
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