I’ve always been a bit amazed at how high-profile people seem to end up in the same orbit. Tommy Lee Jones and Al Gore were college roommates at Harvard. Chevy Chase played drums in a college band with Walter Becker and Donald Fagan, who later went on to form the band Steely Dan. Clayton Kershaw and Matt Stafford were childhood friends and teammates at Highland Park High School in Dallas.
This all came to mind this week as I read the book, “The Wingmen” about the unlikely friendship between John Glenn and baseball icon Ted Williams. The book, a recent release by author Adam Lazarus, is a 232-page tour de force that covers their time together as fighter pilots in the Korean conflict as well as other high and low lights of their respective lives and careers and their decades long friendship.